What can the medical humanities achieve? This paper does not seek to define what is
meant by the medical humanities, nor to adjudicate the exact disciplinary or interdisciplinary …

Recovery is now widely acknowledged as the dominant approach to the management of
mental distress and illness in government, third-sector and some peer-support contexts …

Whereas previous research in the medical humanities has tended to neglect theology and
religious studies, these disciplines sometimes have a very important contribution to make …

The coronavirus pandemic has shattered our world with increased morbidity, mortality, and
personal/social sufferings. At the time of this writing, we are in a biomedical race for …

Background: In recent decades, dominant models of mental illness have become
increasingly focused on the head, with mental disorders being figured as brain disorders …

Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19
pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised …

Despite ongoing attempts to delineate and name treatment resistance (TR) in psychiatry, the
term is increasingly deployed across diagnostic categories. Still, what it is that constitutes TR …

Reconsidering Dementia Narratives explores the role of narrative in develo** new ways of
understanding, interacting with, and caring for people with dementia. It asks how the stories …

This article tests the hypothesis that all pandemics are inherently translational. We argue
that translation and translation theory can be fruitfully used to understand and manage …

This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the
state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical …