The paper explores Heather Parry’s novel Orpheus Builds a Girl through the lens of medical horror. Parry’s novel is a tale of sexual and scientific obsession, using a real life story of a radiographer ...

This article examines the use of asbestos in Italian conceptual painting as a lens through which to explore the relationship ...

Approximately 85 years after the start of World War II, the question of how German physicians—bound by the Hippocratic ...

This article argues that women Holocaust survivors’ experiences of working in medicine and medical research during World War II and the Holocaust provided them with an unconventional but consequential ...

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

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 ...

Contributors LY collected data and conducted the analysis; LY also wrote the manuscript. LY is the guarantor of this project. This manuscript was polished by ChatGPT 4o. The manuscript was written and ...

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 ...

Desmoid tumours are rare, locally aggressive soft tissue tumours that occupy an ambiguous space between benign and malignant disease. Biologically benign, lacking metastatic potential, desmoid tumours ...

This essay emerges from a detailed interview with India’s former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Dr Justice D Y Chandrachud, on legal matters related to medical ethics. The interlocutors—a scholar ...