The prevailing, clinical view of schizophrenia, as reflected in the psychiatric literature, suggests both that people with schizophrenia have lost their sense of self and that they have a diminished ...

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 ...

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 Dr Maja Bodin, Centre for medical humanities, Uppsala University Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala, Sweden; maja.bodin{at}idehist.uu.se This study contributes to ...

This paper will try to give new insight into the Cholera Controversy, which occurred 125 years ago. The majority of papers already written on the topic have emphasised the role of Robert Koch who ...

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 ...

Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to Dr Elin Håkonsen Martinsen, Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of ...

1 Servicio de Radiología, Complexo Hospitalario Xeral-Calde, Lugo, Spain 2 Servicio de Neurología, Complexo Hospitalario Xeral-Calde, Lugo, Spain Correspondence to Manuel Vázquez Caruncho, Servicio de ...

In this article we explore the historical antecedents and ongoing perpetuation of the idea that medical professionals must adhere to a specific ‘character’. In the late nineteenth century, an ideal of ...

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 ...