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Subscribe Log In Advanced search Search Latest content Current issue Archive Authors Podcasts About Email alerts Intro Widget Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large. Led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health. Medical Humanities is an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics . Editor-in-Chief: Brandy Schillace, Cleveland, Ohio USA Editorial team Listen to the Medical Humanities Podcast , published on the first Thursday of every month. Subscribe in all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Stitcher and Spotify . Featured Video 2020 Medical Humanities Focus: Accessibility 9 January, 2020 Access to healthcare may mean coverage and service availability, but it can also mean literal access—would transportation be a problem? What about disability services? Can the patient take the time off work, or get childcare? Accessibility is an issue of social justice. Racial and fiscal minorities, immigrants and refugees, LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming individuals are most likely to face discrimination. Access is often a privilege when it should be a right. Watch the video for a preview of this year's Medical Humanities Focus. Authors Medical Humanities accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including Original Reports, Review Essays and Current Controversies. The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for MH. Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access . Author information Submit a paper Latest Articles Original research: Healthcare providers’ engagement with eating disorder recovery narratives: opening to complexity and diversity 2 March, 2020 Original research: Modern tragedies in self-help literature, blogs and online universes: conceptions of resilience as a literary phenomenon 20 February, 2020 Original research: The case of Dr Masajiro Miyazaki: Japanese-Canadian healthcare in World War II 20 February, 2020 Original research: Animal research nexus: a new approach to the connections between science, health and animal welfare 19 February, 2020 Original research: Public attention for private concerns: intellectual disability parents’ organisations in the Republic of Ireland, 1955–1970 14 February, 2020 Editor’s Choice Original research: Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: an interdisciplinary response 1 August, 2019 Editorial: Biopolitics, psychosomatics, participating bodies 13 June, 2019 Original research: On illness and value: biopolitics, psychosomatics, participating bodies 7 June, 2019 Editorial: Inclusion, access and social justice: the rhizomic evolution of a field across a continent 27 November, 2018 Original research: The politics of female pain: women’s citizenship, twilight sleep and the early birth control movement 28 September, 2018 Most Read Articles Original research: Psychedelic crossings: American mental health and LSD in the 1970s 23 June, 2019 Review essay: Agency, embodiment and enactment in psychosomatic theory and practice 5 June, 2019 Review essay: Sarah Orne Jewett’s depictions of women in a changing medical profession: Nan Prince and Almira Todd 5 October, 2019 Original research: Cancer and the emotions in 18th-century literature 6 November, 2019 Original research: The Participatory Zeitgeist: an explanatory theoretical model of change in an era of coproduction and codesign in healthcare improvement 28 June, 2018 Blog Posts Podcasts Related Journals Journal of Medical Ethics Current issue Visit this journal Altmetrics Content Latest content Current issue Archive Browse by topic Most read articles Responses Journal About Editorial board Sign up for email alerts Subscribe Thank you to our reviewers Authors Instructions for authors Submit an article Editorial policies Open access at BMJ BMJ Author Hub Help Contact us Reprints Permissions Advertising Feedback form Website Terms & Conditions Privacy & Cookies Contact BMJ Online ISSN: 1473-4265 Print ISSN: 1468-215X Copyright © 2020 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Institute of Medical Ethics. All rights reserved. 京ICP备15042040号-3 Cookie Settings...