Medical Humanities

Papers
(The median citation count of Medical Humanities is 0. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploration of parental perspectives and involvement in therapeutic communication approaches for deaf and/or hard-of-hearing children at special schools in South Africa29
Health sciences training for disability inclusion: the need to engage with emotion27
Implications of task shifting on power relations in healthcare: the case of clinical officers at public hospitals in Malawi21
Through the door: reimagining care and medical humanities13
White supremacy culture and the assimilation trauma of medical training: ungaslighting the physician burnout discourse11
Sparing the doctor’s blushes: the use of sexually explicit films for the purpose of Sexual Attitude Reassessment (SAR) in the training of medical practitioners in Britain during the 1970s11
Parental perspectives of trisomy 18: common threads of a life-limiting diagnosis9
The Ableist stare: an interdisciplinary, narrative-driven exploration of staring at disabled bodies9
Prozac as medicine, metaphor and identity: reimagining recovery as a rhetorical process in Lauren Slater’sProzac Diary9
How care holds humanity: the myth of Cura and theories of care9
Narrative medicine intervention on the obstetric–gynaecological work floor to discuss social stigmas around heavy menstrual bleeding using cocreated site-specific poetry8
‘I’m not ok, we are not ok’: an exploration into the embodied precarity experienced by disabled people and their family members living in rural South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic8
In Torlak we (would) trust: domestic vaccine production in contemporary Serbia7
Editor’s note7
“If we can show that we are helping adolescents to understand themselves, their feelings and their needs, then we are doing [a] valuable job”: counselling young people on sexual health in the Brook Ad7
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health7
Gender, race and class at work: enlisting African health labour into the Gold Coast Medical Service, 1860–19576
Prostheses of disability: Islamic fundamentalism and the disabled body in postcolonial Arab fiction6
They are not all wolves: menstruation, young adult fiction and nuancing the teenage boy6
Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA6
‘Working in a comfort formerly unknown’: medical holism and the radical ambitions behind interwar Bermondsey’s foot clinic6
Science fiction in bioethics: a role for feminist narratology6
Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice: the Double Helix Model5
Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective5
Data discrepancies: Italian ministry reports on abortion, contextualised5
Out of date: genetics, history and the British novel of the 1990s5
African perspectives of moral status: a framework for evaluating global bioethical issues5
Contention and collaboration: the tenuous encounter of modern Ayurveda and Western medicine in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries5
Casualties of the World War II metaphor: women’s reproductive health fighting for narrative inclusion in COVID-195
Picturing sanity, in black and white5
Eugenics and genetic screening in television medical dramas4
‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness4
Virtuosic craft or clerical labour: the rise of the electronic health record and challenges to physicians’ professional identity (1950–2022)4
Will psychology ever ‘join hands’ with disability studies? Opportunities and challenges in working towards structurally competent and disability-affirmative psychotherapy for energy limiting condition4
Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services4
“I am not alone with tears”: embodying stigma and longing among youth living with perinatally acquired HIV in Tanzania through a collaborative arts-based approach4
Narrative futures of pregnancy sickness: reproduction, disability, animality4
How and why to use ‘vulnerability’: an interdisciplinary analysis of disease risk, indeterminacy and normality4
Lanka Mahila Samiti, Mary Rutnam and girls’ education4
Finding more constructive ways forward in the debate over vaccines with increased disability cultural competence4
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication: a manifesto4
Body integrity dysphoria and moral responsibility: an interpretation of the scepticism regarding on-demand amputations4
‘The Doctor in Search of Herself’: women doctors’ autobiographies, second wave feminism, and the feminist women’s health movement, 1976-19874
Forensic rhetoric: COVID-19, the forum and the boundaries of healthcare evidence3
Motherhood, wet-nursing and nation: nineteenth-century Brazilian medical perspectives3
Integrating person-centred care and social justice: a model for practice with larger-bodied patients3
(De)troubling transparency: artificial intelligence (AI) for clinical applications3
Beyond ‘born not made’: challenging character, emotions and professionalism in undergraduate medical education3
Black bodies in phenomenological bioethics: cultural othering, ‘Corporeal Uncanny’ and ethical quandaries of black nurses inTake My HandandSmall Great Things3
Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots3
Talking it better: conversations and normative complexity in healthcare improvement3
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context3
Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative3
Interdisciplinary co-teaching as a sustainable model for health humanities pedagogy3
‘Future Docs for Abortion Access’: lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA3
Listening to face transplant patients and caregivers: how medical humanities approaches redefine surgical ‘success’3
Diagnosis: undervalued. A psychoanalytic exploration of doctor strikes in the British National Health Service, 2023–20243
Hostile environments?Down’s syndrome and genetic screening in contemporary culture2
Environmental racialisation and poetics of influence in the postgenomic era: fire, soil, spirit2
Pine fresh: the cultural and medical context of pine scent in relation to health—from the forest to the home2
Written on milk: exploring messages written on donated human-milk bags2
Global genetic fictions2
Complexities in interdisciplinary community engagement projects: some reflections and lessons from an applied drama and theatre project in diabetes care2
Making Modern Maternity2
Narratives of childhood sexual abuse: healing through music in Ian McEwan’sOn Chesil Beach2
A mirror in fiction: drawing parallelisms between Camus’sLa Pesteand COVID-192
Global Health Humanities in transition2
Narrative trajectories of disaster response: ethical preparedness from Katrina to COVID-192
Mutant metaphors:Frankensteinin the era of COVID-192
“And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novelBlack Hole2
“Quite simply they don’t communicate”: a case study of a National Health Service response to staff suicide2
On the consequences of childbirth: obstetrics/gynaecology, comparative anatomy and racial theories in 19th century France and Brazil2
Effect of a long-term art-based group therapy with eating disorders2
Ethics and medical specimens2
An Editor’s farewell2
Perplexity as a provocation: revisiting the role of metaphor as a ‘place holder’ for the potential of COVID-19 antibodies2
Time considered as a helix of infinite possibilities2
Commentary on ‘Somewhere out there in a place no one knows: Yoko Ogawa’sThe Memory Policeand the literature of forgetting’ by John Henning2
John Buchan’s race through life, chased by his only foe—illness2
Transplantation: changing biotechnologies and imaginaries2
Encoding material female bodies through cosmetic surgeries: a study of cultural economy and the biometric dynamics of Indian Hindi film stars2
Contributions of Hippocratic medicine and Plato to today’s debate over health, social determinants and the authority of biomedicine2
Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism2
Cicely Saunders, ‘Total Pain’ and emotional evidence at the end of life1
‘I’m not hep C free’: afterlives of hepatitis C in the era of cure1
Is there truth in fiction? Lessons from readers’ responses to dementia fiction1
‘Freudism’ and modernity: transcultural impact of psychoanalysis in the modern Turkish novel1
‘What’s a D and C between friends?’ Space, intimacy and the medicalisation of unmotherhood in modernist literature1
Biocolonial pregnancies: Louise Erdrich’sFuture Home of the Living God(2017)1
Medical Humanities in Transition1
Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement1
Genetic enhancement, TED talks and the sense of wonder1
Metaphors and decision making in parental blogs about their children with life-limiting diseases: who’s afraid of the war metaphor?1
The quality of qualitative research1
Fatherlessness, sperm donors and ‘so what?’ parentage: arguing against the immorality of donor conception through ‘world literature’1
It’s about time: on the need of a temporal language for ecologically dimensioned medical humanities and public health scholarship1
Listening, learning, caring: exploring assemblages of, ethics of and pathways to care for avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)1
Women’s voices, emotion and empathy: engaging different publics with ‘everyday’ health histories1
Federal field nurses and Indigenous births1
Claimed by culture: circumcision, cochlear implants and the ‘intact’ body1
From othering to belonging: a framework for DEI history-telling and strategising1
Food hygiene, public health education and citizenship in Britain, 1948–19671
Of not passing: homelessness, addiction, mental health and care during COVID-191
“The highest in each class was a twilight baby”: scientific motherhood, twilight sleep and the eugenics movement inMcClure’s Magazine1
Lessons from the frontlines: a junior doctor’s experience of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in a resource-limited setting1
Meeting up in broken word/times: communication, temporality and pace in neuromixed writing1
Children’s hospitals in the British NHS: commercial and international considerations1
Aesthetics for everyday quality: one way to enrich healthcare improvement debates1
Sex, relationships and ‘everyday psychology’ on British magazine problem pages, c. 1960–19901
Counselling for connection: making queer relationships during Britain’s sexual revolution1
Deaf futurity: designing and innovating hearing aids1
Role of science fiction in conceptualising the reproductive future: a linguistic and literary perspective1
The ‘Glasgow effect’: the controversial cultural life of a public health term1
Digital hermeneutics: scaled readings of online depression discourses1
‘Written of by novelists’: scripting and managing emotions in 19th-century medical manuscripts1
Diagnosing Shosha: literature as a lens to view disease and history1
Chronicling the chronic: narrating the meaninglessness of chronic pain1
Beyond the fingertips: imagining haptic technologies for a deafblind future1
Understanding how college students characterise and cope with chronic pain: a thematic analysis of expressive writing samples1
Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care1
“This will keep me happy for weeks”: care objects, affect and graphic medicine1
“It is difficult for us to treat their pain”. Health professionals’ perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management: a conceptual model1
Research forum: imaging a post-antimicrobial future1
Psychedelic injustice: should bioethics tune in to the voices of psychedelic-using communities?1
The transition fromabortiontomiscarriageto describe early pregnancy loss in British medical journals: a prescribed or natural lexical change?1
Hybrid performances in sport: Cybathlon spectatorship for critically imagining technologies for disability futures1
Obedient mothers, healthy children: communication on the risks of reproduction in state-socialist Czechoslovakia1
Staff disability data in UK higher education: Evidence from EDI reports1
Historiographies of surgical innovation: endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery1
Alder Hey’s heart of gold: charity, cardiac surgery and the distortion of paediatric provision in a nationalised health service, 1948–911
Deaf-led alarm design: technology and disability in home, work and parenthood1
In good hands: the phenomenological significance of human touch for nursing practices1
Towards a critical posthumanist perspective on participatory design1
Global health wars: a rhetorical review of global health critique1
Exploring cultural imaginaries of robots with children with brittle bone disease: a participatory design study1
Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits1
Medical clowning in hospitals: practices, training and perception1
‘Capable of being in uncertainties’: applied medical humanities in undergraduate medical education1
Authority and medical expertise: Arthur Conan Doyle inThe Idler1
Mental health, subjective experiences and environmental change1
Where past meets present: Indigenous vaccine hesitancy in Saskatchewan1
‘Who Sanitizes the Sanitizer?’: COVID Comics and Sanitisers1
Talking about sexual and reproductive health: counselling encounters in postwar Europe1
‘Mrs. Don’t Care’: refusing modern Black motherhood in Nella Larsen’sQuicksand1
Woman in the brain, or the fraught relationship between feminism and mental health1
‘In the picture’: perspectives on living and working with cancer1
Race, class, caste, disability, sterilisation and hysterectomy1
Can ‘life writing’ be therapeutic in response to trauma? An exploratory research project in Medical Humanities in South Africa1
UK media responses to HIV through the lens of COVID-19: a study of multidirectional memory1
Rethinking empathy: professional work with persons with PIMD1
Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping1
Solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a nine-country interview study in Europe1
Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh0
Examining legal and ethical challenges in HIV/AIDS disclosure obligations and medical practices: a case study from China0
Antibiotics online: digital pharmacy marketplaces and pastiche medicine0
Neurodiversity and disability: what is at stake?0
The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England0
‘Are you pregnant? If not, why not?’: artificial reproductive technology and the trauma of infertility0
Wars and sweets: microbes, medicines and other moderns in and beyond the(ir) antibiotic era0
The right time: women, medicine and maternal age in 1980s Aotearoa New Zealand0
Mental health treatments and the influence of culture: portrayals of hypnotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy in Singaporean television dramas0
Phenomenological physiotherapy: extending the concept of bodily intentionality0
Health, policy and emotion0
Instrumentalising the imagination: science fiction prototyping as posthumanist methodology0
Cripping the pain scale: literary and biomedical narratives of pain assessment0
Understanding the pandemic: self and other alignment with COVID poetry0
‘DEFEND, DEFEND, DEFEND’: women’s HIV health activism, embodied feminist performance-making and radical kindness0
Expectation, emotion and the built environment: experiences of occupying hospital spaces as a loved one nears the end of life0
Edges of perception: balancing sensory loss and potential in assistive technology0
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world0
Bridging comic art and research: lessons from an interdisciplinary collaboration project in a palliative care context0
Correspondence on “Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health” by Garcia-Iglesiaset al0
Making the ‘genetic counsellor’ in the UK, 1980–19950
Impact of Islamophobic myths on Indian healthcare0
‘More than biological’: Cherie Dimaline’sThe Marrow Thievesas Indigenous countergenetic fiction0
The production of medicoethical misconduct: medical ethics and vivisection in Wilkie Collins’sHeart and Science0
Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health0
Correction:Digital hermeneutics: scaled readings of online depression discourses0
Between medicine, humanities and the law: compiling a living archive of assisted dying0
Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork0
‘The book’s a conversation starter’: a realist exploration of the salutogenic potential of reading for pleasure0
From danger to destination: changes in the language of endemic disease during the COVID-19 pandemic0
The times and spaces of transplantation: queercrip histories as futurities0
(Post)confessional mode and psychological surveillance inThe CrownandFleabag0
The mediated discourse and voice of euthanasia: the Israeli media as a case study0
Disability, relationship, and the negotiation of loss0
Faecal microbiota transplants: towards a healthy disgust scepticism0
Peer-to-peer counselling and emotional guidance on infertility in Britain and Belgium (1970s–1980s)0
After the madhouses: the emotional politics of psychiatry and community care in the UK tabloid press 1980–19950
Choosing the best apple: counselling leaflets and technologies of communication in the history of reproduction0
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television0
Performing dissections: feminist performance as research methodology in the medical humanities0
Contact building: emotional exchanges between counsellees and counsellors in the late socialist period in Poland0
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: interdisciplinary creative art practice and nature connections0
Chronic challenges: picturing chronic disease by the World Health Organization0
Waiting, strange: transplant recipient experience, medical time and queer/crip temporalities0
Crip the elders and get out of white privilege free0
Towards a transformative health humanities approach in teaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)0
Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole0
Imagining a post-antibiotic era: a cultural analysis of crisis and antibiotic resistance0
Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?0
Turning good intentions into good outcomes: ethical dilemmas at a student-run clinic and a rubric for reflective action0
Redefining global cardiac surgery through an intersectionality lens0
Human-centred design, disability and bioethics0
From the womb to the world: a study of pregnancy narratives by celebrity moms in India0
In many voices: exploring end-of-life care through patient, caregiver and physician narratives0
Milk’s Flows: Making and Transmitting Kinship, Health, and Personhood0
What can art history offer medical humanities?0
Raising the Jewish nation: prescriptions of modern motherhood infolksgeszuntto Jews in interwar Eastern Europe0
Decolonising ‘man’, resituating pandemic: an intervention in the pathogenesis of colonial capitalism0
Motherhood, medicine and magazines in interwar Vienna: the case ofDie Mutter(The Mother, 1924–1926)0
Temporal technologies of epidemics0
‘I will never love anyone like that again’: cognitive behavioural therapy and the pathologisation and medicalisation of ordinary experiences0
Transparent boundaries as scenographies of trust: the COVID-19 pandemic from the view of material cultural studies and artistic works0
Portals to the past and bridges to the future: exploring the impact of doulas on the birthing experiences of black and Latinx women0
Collecting affect: emotion and empathy in World War II photographs and drawings of plastic surgery0
The COVID-19 vaccine patent: a right without rationale0
Biopower under a state of exception: stories of dying and grieving alone during COVID-19 emergency measures0
‘Creative Ferment’: abortion and reproductive agency in Bessie Head’sPersonal Choicestrilogy0
The pandemic body: the lived body during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Poetry and well-being: a pilot programme to evaluate the impact of creative writing for patients in short-term and long-term rehabilitation0
Finland’s New Children’s Hospital and resurgent charity in a Nordic post-welfare state0
‘A Procedure Without a Problem’, or the face transplant that didn’t happen. The Royal Free, the Royal College of Surgeons and the challenge of surgical firsts0
‘Dirty pigs’ and the xenotransplantation paradox0
Exploring the GP-patient relationship: a historical narration0
Parasites and priorities: the early evolution of ‘neglected disease’ initiatives and the history of a global health agenda0
Smoothies, bone broth, and fitspo: the historicity of TikTok postpartum bounce-back culture0
‘Finally making sense’: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood0
A black dog enters the home: hunger and malnutrition in Malawi0
Disability, digital technologies and the ambivalent allure of posthumanist/transhumanist futures0
Beyond wrinkles: ageing, graphic medicine, and Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’sBlossoms in Autumn0
Introduction: imagining technologies for disability futures0
On the art of audio description: Naomi Kawase’sRadiance0
‘Please help me, I am so miserable!’: sexual health, emotions and counselling in teen and young adult problem pages in late 1980s Ireland0
Correction:Health, policy and emotion0
Stories of chronic illness: exploring qualitative data through poetic transcriptions0
Evolution in Health and Medical Humanities education: a proposal for accreditation0
The making of a professional digital caregiver: personalisation and friendliness as practices of humanisation0
Performing HeLa: theatrical bodies and living remains0
Unburdening expectation and operatingbetween: architecture in support of palliative care0
The Cost of Dying Exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life0
Making my voice and owning its future0
Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity0
The reckoning table, the periodoscope and the shaping of modern pregnancy in nineteenth-century print forms0
Writing the worlds of genomic medicine: experiences of using participatory-writing to understand life with rare conditions0
The future of translational medical humanities: bridging the data/narrative divide0
Conceptualisations of care: why understanding paid care is important0
A model for abolitionist narrative medicine pedagogy0
Making space for disability studies within a structurally competent medical curriculum: reflections on long Covid0
‘It wasn’t what I was suited for’: regretful mothers negotiating their reproductive decision and mother role0
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