Despite shame being recognised as a powerful force in the clinical encounter, it is underacknowledged, under-researched and undertheorised in the contexts of health and medicine. In this paper we make ...

In this epistolary paper, we draw on the work of an interdisciplinary, psychosocial study of the relationship between time and care, Waiting Times, to explore the significance of a book of letters as ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming clinical practice while simultaneously raising concerns about trust. Drawing on complexity theory, this paper argues that the crisis of trust in medical AI ...

In an era of technological acceleration, clinical evaluation is increasingly governed by digital diagnostics, algorithmic protocols and standardised efficiency. While these advances improve precision, ...

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How far back does medical consent go? A journey through Ottoman legal records in Ottoman Empire ...

Agency has become an essential component of discussions concerning selfhood, well-being, and care in dementia studies but the concept itself is rarely clearly defined and the use of this term can be ...

Correspondence to Ms Francisca Stutzin Donoso, Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, Health Humanities, University College London, London, UK; francisca.stutzin.15{at}ucl.ac.uk In ...

Correspondence to Professor Eivind Engebretsen, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo Faculty of Medicine, 0372 Oslo, Norway; eivind.engebretsen{at}medisin.uio.no In this introductory ...

Tracing the evolution of informed consent from the Hippocratic tradition to the Ottoman Empire reveals its enduring role as a fundamental ethical principle supporting patient autonomy. Spanning ...

Children’s hospitals, children’s wards and children as hospital inpatients have attracted an exceptional amount of academic attention for decades.1 In this topic collection, we use the lens of ...

This study explores the integration of home-like design elements in paediatric/adolescent palliative care inpatient units, drawing on perspectives from both medical and architectural professionals.