Menstruation and homelessness are each highly stigmatised experiences, yet their intersection remains critically understudied. This paper introduces the concept of amplified stigma to describe the ...

The medical care of infants born with atypical sex characteristics sits at a peculiar ideological intersection. While many healthcare practitioners hold biologically essentialist views on sex ...

This study investigates the relationship between non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and influenza morbidity during the 1918 pandemic, with a focus on urban and rural medical districts in Norway.

This article explores the representation of sexual health in black and brown communities in London during the early COVID-19 pandemic. I examine the ‘Sex & the Coronavirus’ (2020) health comic series ...

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This article offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘The Map-Woman’, examining the metaphor of the female body as a map in relation to artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted ...

The health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted minorities and other minoritised groups in the UK, underscoring historical trends of social injustices. These health effects ...

A lyric essay by two writers and academics who are victim survivors of child sexual abuse (CSA) perpetrated by their biological fathers. Taking a survivor-centred approach, and referring to their own ...

This article brings together science fiction literary theory and design research to examine how the narrative modes used to frame novel technologies shape biomedical futures. Focusing on current ...

At the International Pandemic Sciences Conference in 2024, scholars of science and the medical humanities were united in asking one guiding question: how can we learn from disease outbreaks of the ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) represents a transcultural recurrent response to extreme events, documented across approximately four millennia of human history. Although formally codified in ...