The language used to describe the ending of a pregnancy is contested, and the contest has consequences for stigma, recognition and access to care. In English, the late twentieth-century shift from ...

This essay rethinks infection in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic by examining how its imaginaries are reconfigured in contemporary science fiction. While infection has conventionally been ...

Correction notice This article has been corrected since it was published online first. The name of one of the collaborators mentioned in the paper was misspelled. Contributors SEL is the sole author ...

This article turns to a particular mode of analogy: the deployment of medical metaphors in feminist ecological art. It foregrounds ecofeminist artworks produced from the late twentieth century onwards ...

With the rise of digital media, social platforms such as Rednote (Xiaohongshu) have emerged as critical arenas for infertility patients to reconstruct illness perceptions, seek emotional compensation ...

God of Dance’ Vaslav Nijinsky wrote profusely during a short period in 1918–1919, immediately preceding his diagnosis of ...

There is now an extensive and robust evidence base for arts and health, but few accounts of how or why socially engaged practices matter in ethical, experiential and aesthetic terms. This paper ...

Contributors SEL is the sole author and was responsible for all the work undertaken as part of this article, had full access to all materials and was solely responsible for the writing of the final ...

This article focuses on coercion in contemporary psychiatry through the autoethnographic account of Peter, a mental health peer worker who experienced psychosis and coercive psychiatric interventions.

The proliferation of consumer health technologies that allow individuals to measure and monitor biometrical parameters of uncertain clinical significance facilitates the decoupling of disease and ...

Research and policymaking on positive mental health and well-being have increased within the last decade, partly fueled by decreasing levels of well-being in the general population and among at-risk ...