The impact of social and material conditions on mental health is well established but lacking in a coherent approach. We offer the concept of ‘vitality’ as means of describing how environments ...

The nineteenth century science of teratology concerned itself with the study of malformations or “monstrosities”, as they were then called. The first major contribution to the field was the work of ...

2 Institute of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Research Training Group ‘Life Sciences—Life Writing’, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany Correspondence to Dr Anita Wohlmann, ...

Correspondence to Owen Rees, History, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester M15 6LL, UK; o.rees{at}mmu.ac.uk In the pursuit to offer validity and lineage to the ...

Correspondence to Dr Ian Williams, Graphicmedicine.org, Hafoty Lwyd, Llanrhaeadr, Denbigh LL16 4PH, UK; ian{at}ian-williams.co.uk ‘Brick’ is the nom de plume of John Stuart Clark, who has been ...

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, South Kensington, London, UK Correspondence to Diana Davenport, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine ...

In 1964, Simone de Beauvoir, arguably one of the greatest writers of 20th century Europe, published an account of the final 6 weeks of her mother’s life. It is a beautifully written, raw, honest, and ...

This special issue comes at the end of the 5-year ‘Imagining Technology for Disabilities Futures’ (itDf) research project, funded through a collaborative award in medical humanities from the Wellcome ...

Imagination and narrative are of vital importance in understanding how we conceive of our potential (disability) futures, and the role technology has in shaping our realities. The concept of ‘science ...

This article uses the author’s experience of researching historical photographs of facial injury and surgical reconstruction to think through the ethics of writing about and publishing images of ...

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