The literature on pain has so far been primarily interested in chronic pain, medically induced pain and pain as an unwanted experience. However, pain is a more complicated experience and the lines ...

Jane Austen’s letters describe a two-year deterioration into bed-ridden exhaustion, with unusual colouring, bilious attacks and rheumatic pains. In 1964, Zachary Cope postulated tubercular Addison’s ...

2 Institute of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Research Training Group ‘Life Sciences—Life Writing’, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany Correspondence to Dr Anita Wohlmann, ...

2 Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Anesthesia Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA In 2000, the Arts and Humanities ...

While recent medical innovation shows great promise in treating hepatitis C (HCV), it remains a condition associated with profound stigma. HCV is a bloodborne virus (BBV) most commonly transmitted in ...

This paper argues that analysing past public health policies calls for scholarship that integrates insights not just from medical history but from a broad range of historical fields. Recent studies of ...

The nineteenth century science of teratology concerned itself with the study of malformations or “monstrosities”, as they were then called. The first major contribution to the field was the work of ...

School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK Heart transplantation is now the accepted therapy for end-stage heart failure that is resistant to medical ...

All data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplementary information. The relationship between personal and political circumstances is perhaps nowhere more clearly ...

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, South Kensington, London, UK Correspondence to Diana Davenport, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine ...

Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Correspondence to Dr Elin Håkonsen Martinsen, Centre for Medical Ethics, Institute of ...

The primary claim of this paper is that understanding the stigma so commonly endured by chronic pain sufferers today in the USA and the UK is unlikely without proper appreciation of the history of ...