Children’s hospitals, children’s wards and children as hospital inpatients have attracted an exceptional amount of academic attention for decades.1 In this topic collection, we use the lens of ...

This study explores the integration of home-like design elements in paediatric/adolescent palliative care inpatient units, drawing on perspectives from both medical and architectural professionals.

This Topic Collection centres the ‘exceptionalism’ of children’s healthcare provision and charitable fundraising for children’s health causes, bringing together historical, sociological, and ...

This article explores the role of humour and satire in promoting multispecies planetary health, with a focus on the work of Indian cartoonist Rohan Chakravarty. Following a critical examination of ...

Many people with persistent symptoms navigate illness without an adequate explanatory framework. The systematic disadvantages that arise from the lack of a collectively shared explanation can be ...

“Come back as soon as possible”. I (BN) struggled to process the phone conversation I was having with my doctor. The call woke me from a desperately needed nap—the last time I slept had been 30 hours ...

This review essay critically examines a modern manifestation of the scientific clinical gaze, drawing upon Michel Foucault’s foundational concepts. Using a Swedish medical case involving cultural bias ...

Organ transplantation profoundly enhances survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage organ failure but presents challenges such as lifelong immunosuppression, complications and ...

Training healthcare students on topics of psychiatry and mental health is challenging because, besides scientific knowledge, addressing attitudes towards mental health is equally important. In this ...

Orthorexia nervosa (ON) – a pathological obsession with healthy eating – has emerged as a cultural pathology intricately woven into neoliberal ideologies and biopolitical regimes. This paper ...

Preclinical animal testing has played a critical role within medical history. Yet it remains an underdiscussed topic within the medical humanities. What might happen, then, if we analyse the animal ...

Tracing the evolution of informed consent from the Hippocratic tradition to the Ottoman Empire reveals its enduring role as a fundamental ethical principle supporting patient autonomy. Spanning ...