The French sculptor Camille Claudel at about the age of 40 developed a psychotic illness that proved to be chronic. Delusions of persecution, focused on her former mentor and lover Auguste Rodin, ...

‘God knows why these Sanghaalis are so rabidly against C-section!’: spectre of medical coloniality haunts doctor-patient relationship in Guruprasad Kaginele’s Hijab (2020) ...

It is generally accepted that the practice of medicine could be improved by turning to the humanities in general, and to narrative and text interpretation in particular. Neverthless, there is hardly ...

The sudden death of Pablo Picasso's closest friend Carlos Casagemas in 1901 came as a great shock to the young Picasso. From a young age, Picasso had ruminated on life and death; however, this was his ...

Correspondence to Ms Ishani Anwesha Joshi, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli 620015, India; ishanianweshajoshi097{at}gmail ...

At the heart of medicine is the patient, and the fundamental relationship in medicine is the patient–physician dyad. Smith’s argument for the intersubjective creation of knowledge, which is itself ...

Medicine has been said to be both a science and an art. Many practitioners regard this statement as containing an element of “either/or”. A brief look at what scientists and artists have written about ...

Correspondence to Professor Eivind Engebretsen, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Box 1130 Blindern, Oslo 0318, Norway; eivind.engebretsen{at}medisin.uio.no ...

Among the growing number of works of graphic fiction, a number of titles dealing directly with the patient experience of illness or caring for others with an illness are to be found. Thanks in part to ...

Illness narratives have traditionally been used as a conceptual tool for exploring experiences of chronic illness or disease. In this paper, I suggest that Frank's typology of illness narratives ...

This essay argues that the emotional rhetoric of today’s breast cancer discourse—with its emphasis on stoicism and ‘positive thinking’ in the cancer patient, and its use of sympathetic feeling to ...

The impact of social and material conditions on mental health is well established but lacking in a coherent approach. We offer the concept of ‘vitality’ as means of describing how environments ...