Clinical reasoning unfolds under persistent uncertainty, yet medical education still rewards arriving at the correct diagnosis over cultivating the habits needed to reason well when certainty is ...

Medical humanities scholarship has predominantly centred on Western biomedical frameworks, thereby marginalising non-Western, spiritually integrated healing systems that holistically interweave sacred ...

Colonial histories shaped medicine’s hierarchies, marginalising South Asian women doctors whose contributions remain largely absent from mainstream narratives. This essay traces the lives of ...

In post-Second World War Britain the locus of childbirth shifted from women’s homes to the hospital. Alongside the hospitalisation of childbirth, obstetric technologies and practices on maternity ...

Medical students begin constructing meanings about medicine well before entering clinical environments, shaped by sociocultural influences including cinema and other forms of popular media. These ...

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Lifelines across the meridian: unearthing the histories of the first South Asian women doctors in the British Empire ...

This study involved a thematic analysis of montage paintings and of related clinical records of 240 active-duty military service members collected during their art therapy treatment for traumatic ...

Correspondence to Dr A Moran, School of Nursing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland; aoife.moran{at}dcu.ie End stage renal disease (ESRD) is a chronic and life-threatening illness.

Careful and intentional language use can improve healthcare outcomes for vulnerable populations. This essay critically analyses how metaphors shape clinical communication with childhood survivors of ...