This article turns to a particular mode of analogy: the deployment of medical metaphors in feminist ecological art. It foregrounds ecofeminist artworks produced from the late twentieth century onwards ...

With the rise of digital media, social platforms such as Rednote (Xiaohongshu) have emerged as critical arenas for infertility patients to reconstruct illness perceptions, seek emotional compensation ...

There is now an extensive and robust evidence base for arts and health, but few accounts of how or why socially engaged practices matter in ethical, experiential and aesthetic terms. This paper ...

God of Dance’ Vaslav Nijinsky wrote profusely during a short period in 1918–1919, immediately preceding his diagnosis of ...

This article focuses on coercion in contemporary psychiatry through the autoethnographic account of Peter, a mental health peer worker who experienced psychosis and coercive psychiatric interventions.

Palliative care communication often balances clarity with compassion, yet its professional and goal-oriented language can inadvertently mute the emotional and existential realities of dying. Illness ...

This article begins as a review of the French-Moroccan film, Carved by the Wind (2024), directed by Layla Triqui. The film offers an opportunity to use a ‘case history’ approach in considering ...

In March 2022, Dr Archana Sharma, a Rajasthan-based gynaecologist, committed suicide after being accused of medical negligence. Her final note—‘My death may prove my innocence. DON’T HARASS INNOCENT ...

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are serious and disabling long-term conditions characterised by uncertainty surrounding their aetiology, diagnosis and treatment.

The article positions artist-led research as a vital methodology for an engaged, transformative and translational medical humanities. Recent scholarship aligned with the critical visual medical ...

Obstetric violence has emerged as a powerful yet contested term that describes harmful and abusive practices and institutional and systemic failings in reproductive healthcare. While its origins lie ...

This paper aims to analyse selected online narratives of women with endometriosis who leverage the affordances of these platforms to share their lived experiences. Through discourse analysis, this ...