This essay explores the contradictory, prejudicial attitudes towards circumcision and Jewish male sexuality circulating in eighteenth-century English print culture. I argue that while Jewish men had ...

Correspondence to Benjamin Chin-Yee, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 152 Saint Patrick St, Toronto, ON M5T 3J9, Canada; benjamin.chinyee{at}mail.utoronto.ca This essay is a reflection on ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

1 Third year medical student, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India 2 Medical Humanities Group, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India 3 Department of Physiology, ...

This paper addresses a current debate in the bioethics community between principlists, who consider that principles are at the heart of moral life, and narrativists, who see communication at its core.

Correspondence to Professor Eivind Engebretsen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Box 1078 Blindern, Oslo 0316, Norway; eivind.engebretsen{at}medisin.uio.no Modern medicine is confronted with ...

Essayist Susan Sontag alerted us more than 20 years ago to the way in which clusters of metaphors attach themselves to our discussion of certain diseases, and the influence these metaphors exert on ...

Correspondence to Neil Krishan Aggarwal, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA; neil.aggarwal{at}yale.edu ...