Medical Humanities

Papers
(The median citation count of Medical Humanities is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients40
Resolving ‘Collective Amnesia’: uncovering disease outbreaks past to shape pandemic futures28
Impact of pregnancy on women with eating disorder symptoms: a discourse analysis19
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness17
Core symptoms of PTSD across four millennia: a phenomenological and nosographic analysis – from ancient Mesopotamian texts to modern psychiatric classifications13
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA13
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative13
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective12
“I am not alone with tears”: embodying stigma and longing among youth living with perinatally acquired HIV in Tanzania through a collaborative arts-based approach12
Tentative traces: an alternative ethics for historical medical photographs?11
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives11
Pandemics and the gothic, then and now: a hum in the background11
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’s Prozac Diary11
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses in Take My Hand and 10
Sounds like cancer: first steps in sonic life writing10
Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa10
‘Some people talk about children as though they’re completely different’: hospital art, architecture and design for children in modern Britain9
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD8
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism8
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future8
Empathy, the scientific clinical gaze and contemporary practice: a critical reflection8
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole8
Symbolic bodies: analysis of media, cybernetics and the queer-crip patient in The Membranes7
Medical Humanities in Transition7
Science fiction and the futures of artificial womb technology: towards a carrier bag theory of design fiction7
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement in McClure’s Magazine7
Graphic medicine in mental health nursing education: a phenomenological approach to using graphic pathographies as a pedagogical tool7
Twenty-five soundings about child sexual abuse and the arts: considering the opera Festen7
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits7
Metaphors and decision making in parental blogs about their children with life-limiting diseases: who’s afraid of the war metaphor?6
Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care6
Architecture for mental health6
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping6
Impossible motherhood: a health humanities reading of two monologues for women6
Spectres of medical AI: uncertainty, trust and the posthuman condition5
Empirical Bioethics and the Health ‘Brain-Drain’: a qualitative study of the experiential and ethical landscape of compulsory community service for a group of South African doctors5
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities5
Narrative explanation and population health: towards a population health humanities5
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale5
Waiting objects: letters as containers of time and care4
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid4
Educating healthcare students in the Sustainable Development Goals: from translational science to translational humanities4
Psych ward gothic: melodrama, hospitalisation anxiety and a case for the humanities in psychiatric research4
‘We have been completely immersed in frustration and trauma’: ambivalence in informal migrant care systems in South Africa4
Craftivist zine-making with foundation doctors as medical humanities inquiry4
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television4
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity4
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free4
Hidden in plain sight: the covering of patients’ eyes and a microethics of medical photography4
Complexities of care: how ‘The Pitt’ illustrates the philosophical tensions embedded in our medical systems4
Phenomenology of humiliation: feeling injustice in healthcare4
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–19954
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works4
Return to normal? Remembered futures and the post-pandemic4
Identity scaffolding as a moral need in the caretaking of unaccompanied refugee minors4
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic transcriptions4
Sharing in the community of having lost a child4
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education3
Some thoughts on social prescription and the arts3
The fox and the hedgehog: a Tolstoyan approach to psychiatry3
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan3
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution3
The quality of qualitative research3
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse3
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services3
Using metaphors in the care of childhood sexual abuse: a review essay3
Narrating novelty and reaffirming responsibilisation: epigenetics on YouTube3
Genre bleed, reproduction and the climate crisis in Louisa Hall’s Reproduction (2023)3
Reclaiming care: integrating nursing humanities into Philippine nursing education3
Embodied wisdom: towards acceptable and helpful explanations for functional somatic symptoms3
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel3
Zhuangzian philosophy as a guiding principle in medical AI: a path to overcoming bias and paternalism3
Scenario planning and the medical humanities: envisioning the futures of health and healthcare3
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change3
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots3
Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women3
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis3
Chiropractic conspiracy theories3
Whose values are driving the design of robot swarms for humanitarian aid?3
You and Your Baby (home, husband, and doctor): maternal responsibility in the British Medical Association booklet (1957–1987)3
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement3
Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence3
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing3
From prerogative instances to histological thinking: a Baconian pedagogy of observation3
Intrusion of the other: identity, ethics and transplantation in Sui Ishida’s Tokyo Ghoul3
Ethics and medical specimens3
Drama use in simulation-based trainings for health professions: a scoping review3
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto3
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry3
The home within care: exploring home-like design in paediatric/adolescent palliative care environments2
Healthy, happy, rational: reflections on genetic counselling in the GDR2
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork2
From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic2
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England2
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data/narrative divide2
Instrumentalising the imagination: science fiction prototyping as posthumanist methodology2
“I have suffered something”: traumatic childbirth in 19th-century Britain2
Understanding the value of art prompts in an online narrative medicine workshop: an exploratory-descriptive focus group study2
The production of medicoethical misconduct: medical ethics and vivisection in Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science2
Performance and making material histories of racialising violence in medicine2
‘DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND’: women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness2
Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty2
Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field2
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh2
Emancipation through health: John Harvey Kellogg’s advice to white women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries2
How to prove her wrong: hierarchies of watching in the case of the fasting girl Sarah Jacob2
Sacred attention in the clinical gaze: Tagore, Shankaracharya and the spiritual dimensions of empathy2
Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?2
‘Finally making sense’: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood2
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms2
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world2
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand2
Charity and children’s hospitals—exceptionalism, experiences and welfare2
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole2
Poetry and well-being: a pilot programme to evaluate the impact of creative writing for patients in short-term and long-term rehabilitation2
‘Captivating voices’: evaluation of a patient-centred animated video on excessive physical exercise and eating disorders2
Indigenous history in health education2
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design2
Repulsive and precious: thinking with the tick in Canadian Lyme disease discourse2
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction2
Vaccine decision-making among Serbian parents in the Netherlands: vaccine hesitancy in the ‘Post-Trust’ world2
Relevance of Georg Grosz’s Weimar-era drawings to promoting social justice and health equity in contemporary society2
Gaze that shamed science: Canine defiance and the ethics of experimental physiology2
‘The book’s a conversation starter’: a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure2
Cracking open the eristic rhetoric of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy research or why surgeons should not be so certain about this controversial breast cancer treatment2
Correspondence on “Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health” by Garcia-Iglesias et al2
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics2
Beyond medical xenophobia: Congolese and Somali refugees’ struggles, perceptions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa2
Through the door: reimagining care and medical humanities1
Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions1
Hospital space interpreted according to Heidegger’s concepts of care and dwelling1
Trans epistemologies of adeno and endo pain: a history of perspective in gynaecology1
‘No one ever asked for my suggestions…’: photo-elicitation with forcibly-displaced Rohingya about humanitarian responses to mass displacement in Cox’s Bazar1
Psychiatrists’ experiences of involuntary care in South Africa: dilemmas for practice in challenging contexts1
Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness: reproduction, disability, animality1
The future of reproduction in Eve Smith’s Off Target and Kira Peikoff’s Baby X1
Global Health Humanities in transition1
It’s like The Matrix. You have all the numbers, all the information, but no touch, no feeling”: South African teachers’ experiences of teaching oral hard-of-hearing learne1
Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era1
Empowerment and resistance in bioethics: the case of do-it-yourself medicine1
Evoking Brecht’s A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor : developing clinical skills, deepening understanding and promoting action on living and working condition1
Introduction: imagining technologies for disability futures1
Women’s health: who cares? Reproduction, resistance and reckoning1
Imagining a post-antibiotic era: a cultural analysis of crisis and antibiotic resistance1
Race, class, caste, disability, sterilisation and hysterectomy1
Mental health treatments and the influence of culture: portrayals of hypnotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy in Singaporean television dramas1
Cynefin and the ethics of context in mental health1
Neuroqueer embodiment and nomadic subjectivity in autistic life writing1
Comparison of drama and standardised patient method to develop humanistic approach in breaking bad news training1
They are not all wolves: menstruation, young adult fiction and nuancing the teenage boy1
Perplexity as a provocation: revisiting the role of metaphor as a ‘place holder’ for the potential of COVID-19 antibodies1
(De)troubling transparency: artificial intelligence (AI) for clinical applications1
Health sciences training for disability inclusion: the need to engage with emotion1
Creativity as a core competency in medical education: the art of medicine1
Decolonising with imperial tools? The paradox of a global bioethics library1
Purity, politics and pain: Trump’s paracetamol posturing and the moralisation of pregnancy1
Women’s and girls’ ADHD diagnosis journeys: a mother-daughter autoethnography1
An Editor’s farewell1
Neither this nor that but our own: AI as a ‘third space’ for Eritrean female genital mutilation survivors in the UK1
The pandemic body: the lived body during the COVID-19 pandemic1
End chapter: illness memoirs and narrative humility in shaping the language of palliative care1
’Uyun Teta: blindness, sightedness and the stories in-between1
Diagnosing Shosha: literature as a lens to view disease and history1
Global health wars: a rhetorical review of global health critique1
Social life of HIV data1
Postdigital health practices: new directions in medical humanities1
Artificial intelligence and medicine: an epistemological inquiry1
Your pain and mine: the mismatch between pain expression and perception of patients with sickle cell disease in the UK1
Implementing narrative medicine in teaching languages for healthcare purposes1
Finland’s New Children’s Hospital and resurgent charity in a Nordic post-welfare state1
Turning good intentions into good outcomes: ethical dilemmas at a student-run clinic and a rubric for reflective action1
Data discrepancies: Italian ministry reports on abortion, contextualised1
Narratives of illness and the language of healing: bridging literary studies, linguistics and cancer care1
Contention and collaboration: the tenuous encounter of modern Ayurveda and Western medicine in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries1
Mother tongues1
Double life of the pill: towards a cabaret methodology for contraceptive research1
‘The Doctor in Search of Herself’: women doctors’ autobiographies, second wave feminism, and the feminist women’s health movement, 1976-19871
‘Future Docs for Abortion Access’: lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA1
Embodied narratives: COVID-19, memory and the third object in Emma Goldberg’s ‘Life on the Line’1
Somewhere out there in a place no one knows: Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police and the literature of forgetting1
Written on milk: exploring messages written on donated human-milk bags1
The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-191
Full circle: a patient, a baby and the making of a doctor1
Making Modern Maternity1
Health beyond statistics: a capabilitarian revision of Daniels’ theory of just health1
Rethinking reflexivity, replicability and rigour in qualitative research1
Ethical aspects of medical television: qualitative research methods in the context of China1
Migration and mental health care in South Africa: the question of language in context1
Research forum: imaging a post-antimicrobial future1
‘It wasn’t what I was suited for’: regretful mothers negotiating their reproductive decision and mother role1
It’s Green Gym, but not as we know it: examining the historical roots of voluntary sector provision of social prescribing focusing on gardening on prescription in the UK1
The ‘Glasgow effect’: the controversial cultural life of a public health term1
Clinical trials futures: reimagining health equity through a design and foresight approach1
Deaf-led alarm design: technology and disability in home, work and parenthood1
Placentophagy: self-trust and embodied entanglements in Czech society1
Of mental health, Zen and the postmodern condition: Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021)1
Death, desire and disruptors1
“This will keep me happy for weeks”: care objects, affect and graphic medicine1
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