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Medical Humanities

is an international journal from BMJ and IME publishing studies on the history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability, gender, bioethics & medical education

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Medical Humanities is led by Dr Sabina Dosani, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health.

Medical Humanities is an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics.

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Sabina Dosani, Norwich, UK
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From January 2023, Medical Humanities will publish solely online. Find out more

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Medical Humanities accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including Original Reports, Review Essays and Current Controversies.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for MH.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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Latest Articles

Original research:

Migration and mental health care in South Africa: the question of language in context

24 February 2025

Original research:

Listening to face transplant patients and caregivers: how medical humanities approaches redefine surgical 'success

24 February 2025

Original research:

Mpox in the news: social representations, identity, stigma and coping

24 February 2025

Original research:

'Finally making sense: graphic medicine and ADHD diagnosis in adulthood

24 February 2025

Current controversy:

Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity: considerations on the social potentialities of xenotransplantation

24 February 2025

Podcasts

First Look: Forthcoming Topic Collections

New Socio-Cultural and Political Directions for Transplantation: Transplantation and Its Imaginaries

Health, Policy and Emotion

Talking About Sex and Reproduction: Counselling in Postwar Europe

Blog Posts

Trust Me, I’m an Influencer: MDs and Subtle Ads on Social Media

18 February 2025

The Shipping Community and Health Emergencies: Reflections from the Past

5 February 2025

Deaf futurity: designing and innovating hearing aids

28 January 2025

Why Robot Embodiment Matters: Questions of Disability, Race and Intersectionality in the Design of Social Robots

23 January 2025

Journal Announcements Special Issues

Exploring cultural imaginaries of robots with children with brittle bone disease: a participatory design study

22 January 2025

Journal Announcements Special Issues

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Patients as knowledge partners in the context of complex chronic conditions
18 July 2024

You and Your Baby (home, husband, and doctor): maternal responsibility in the British Medical Association booklet (1957–1987)
3 June 2024

Fluid modernities: the birthing pool in late twentieth-century Britain
26 June 2024

Creative forms: booklets by the hospital senses collective
28 June 2023

Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field
6 January 2025

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