Revisiting diagnosis through art is a novel concept for scientific research. During the Renaissance, wealthy families, such ...

The Danish welfare state provides safe, easily accessible abortions that are free of charge, and the majority of Danes support abortion rights. For these reasons, elective abortions are generally ...

Despite widespread efforts to advance the Quadruple Aim, persistent challenges continue to impede progress. One important yet largely unacknowledged contributor may be shame—a complex and deeply human ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was an ‘extraordinary’ situation that raised many ethical and political questions about the role of care in society, as well as the exercise of democracy in the context of major ...

MH is a multidisciplinary field that brings together the medical sciences and the humanities. MH was developed in the USA in the late 1970s, following the publication of Lewis Thomas’ essay ‘How to ...

Background At the end of life, clinical care often reduces a person to a single dimension—a past biography, a present symptom or a future decline. Existing person-centred models offer immense value ...

Paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) are often portrayed as clinical environments in which technical mastery must coexist with emotional detachment. In medical and sociological discourse, ...