In the early twentieth century, childbirth was increasingly being viewed as a medical experience in North America. Women were encouraged to engage with ‘scientific motherhood’ by adhering to ...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012859v1?rss=1
In recent years, dating apps have become important allies in public health. In this paper, we explore the implications of partnering with dating apps for health promotion. We consider the opportu...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2024-012901v1?rss=1
The Italian Ministry of Health reports annually on activities related to abortion and fertility, providing quantitative data that looks ripe for analysis. Actors ranging from activists to medical...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012852v1?rss=1
Reading for Wellbeing (RfW) is a pilot initiative, aimed at improving mental health and well-being through supporting access and increasing opportunities to read for pleasure. RfW was implemented...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012880v1?rss=1
In the late twentieth century, increasing numbers of women in wealthy nations waited until they were aged in their 30s to give birth and become parents. This article examines responses to the cha...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012844v1?rss=1
This article responds to Coope’s call for the medical humanities to address the climate crisis as a health issue. Coope proposes three areas for progress towards ecological thinking in healthca...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012879v1?rss=1
This article explores the feminist social critique in the ‘big heroine’ drama, a newly emerged genre of television that focuses on empowering yet dramatic stories of urban women in contempora...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012839v1?rss=1
Introduction In the USA, maternal morbidity and mortality is markedly higher for women of colour than for white women. The presence of a doula has been associated with positive birthing outcomes...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012840v1?rss=1
Academics and students from marginalised identities encounter challenges and barriers at all levels of participation in the settler colonial university, in both practices of teaching and learning...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2024-012912v1?rss=1
This article engages with the maternal education politics in late colonial Sri Lanka by looking at the implementation of maternal health in the gendered syllabus of middle-class girls’ schools....
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012837v1?rss=1
The emergence of new body technologies has led to the deconstruction of a cosmetically enhanced celebrity body into a bioinformational data-self, which becomes a surveilled subject quantified thr...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012771v1?rss=1
Audio description improves access to visual culture for people who are unable to fully participate in it due to visual impairments. Because of this direct benefit to disabled people, it is usuall...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012802v1?rss=1
Medical dramas offer unique insights into the way popular media makes sense of genetic technology and the ethics of its applications. In this paper we evaluate the contrasting depictions in telev...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012882v1?rss=1
The Dutch graphic novel Naasten, about palliative family caregiving, is the product of an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers and two comic artists. This paper aims to present les...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012750v1?rss=1
Much like face masks, hand sanitisers have become a household item and a prominent symbol since the COVID-19 pandemic. As sanitisers began to be widely used, contingent issues related to toxic in...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012733v1?rss=1
In this paper, I explore a phenomenon those with visible disabilities are all too familiar with: being stared at for their disabled bodies. Drawing on the interrelated fields of psychology, narra...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012636v1?rss=1
Previous studies on medical clowning focused on patients, while research remains inadequate concerning clowning itself: training programmes and prerequisite requirements, clowning methods, deonto...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012785v2?rss=1
Neurodiversity has come hugely to the fore in recent years in a variety of contexts, and is now subject to academic debate, activist discussion, and increasingly embedded in a range of institutio...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012808v1?rss=1
In recent decades, physicians have diagnosed fictional and non-fictional characters through portraits, biographies and writing. We argue that such an exercise can be beneficial for a uniquely hea...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012794v1?rss=1
This essay examines the profound themes and complex narratives presented in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul, focusing on the illegal xenotransplantation and the transformation of the protagonist, Ken ...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012758v1?rss=1
Martinican poet, novelist and cultural theorist Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) rejected contemporary simplistic notions of creole hybridity popularised in the 1980s and 1990s in favour of a uniq...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012790v1?rss=1
Lady health workers (LHWs) provide lifesaving maternal and child health services to >60% of Pakistan’s population but are poorly compensated and overburdened. Moreover, LHWs’ training does no...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2022-012576v1?rss=1
A patient who requests an amputation deemed medically unnecessary by professionals is disqualified per se from being regarded as having medical decision-making capacity. This decision is based on...
http://mh.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/medhum-2023-012811v1?rss=1