Background A tension between free will and determinism shapes narratives of type 2 diabetes and obesity, contributing to stigma and defining how these conditions are culturally understood. Results ...
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Clinical language applied to early pregnancy loss changed in late twentieth century Britain when doctors consciously began using the term ‘miscarriage’ instead of ‘abortion’ to refer to this subject.
Core symptoms of PTSD across four millennia: a phenomenological and nosographic analysis – from ancient Mesopotamian texts to modern psychiatric classifications ...
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 ...
As the focus on end-of-life care intensifies, so too does the need to better understand the experiences of patients, caregivers and physicians. Delivering empathetic care requires a shared ...
Migrants assuming caregiving roles for other migrants require care themselves. We report on how migrants in South Africa navigate the dual responsibilities of caregiving and self-care. 15 ...
Psychiatric textbooks tend to describe psychosis as it is experienced by men. The well-documented illness of Zelda Fitzgerald illustrates the feminine side of psychosis. The distinctive features of ...
In Kilombero district, in South-central Tanzania, rapidly evolving environmental conditions, land-use transformations and conservation policies are restructuring human-rodent interactions including ...
Scottish voluntary hospitals were founded, supported and expanded by philanthropy and charity across the 19th century and through the first half of the 20th century. Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Sick ...
Total laryngectomy permanently deprives patients of their vocal apparatus. While the communicative consequences of voice loss have been widely discussed, its implications for professional identity ...