This article offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘The Map-Woman’, examining the metaphor of the female body as a map in relation to artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted ...

1 Department of English Studies and Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK 2 Department of Geography and Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University, Durham, UK 3 School of ...

Correspondence to Mr Iliya Gutin, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27499, USA; igutin{at}live.unc.edu Biomedical research has a long and ...

In May 2022, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to recede from public view, another infectious disease surprised the world—mpox (formerly monkeypox). It appeared to disproportionately affect gay, ...

Correspondence to Dr Roderick Bailey, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford, Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus, Oxford OX3 7FZ, UK; roderick.bailey{at}history.ox.ac.uk This ...

Correspondence to Dr Aaron M Williams, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; willaaro{at}med.umich.edu Healthcare systems have postponed medical ...

The primary claim of this paper is that understanding the stigma so commonly endured by chronic pain sufferers today in the USA and the UK is unlikely without proper appreciation of the history of ...

Yarwar (2008) wrote in the Lancet that ‘Doctors are trained in analgesia, but not in meaning’. Attunement to the meaning of a patient's experience can improve doctor-patient communication and have ...

Correspondence to Dr Alison Swartz, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town 7925, South Africa; alison.swartz{at}uct.ac.za This article focuses on the devastating hidden ...

As Frankenstein’s 200th anniversary nears, its use as a shorthand for ethical critique only increases. This article argues, though, that its lessons inhere in its unique structure, which enacts an ...

Much like face masks, hand sanitisers have become a household item and a prominent symbol since the COVID-19 pandemic. As sanitisers began to be widely used, contingent issues related to toxic ...