This work explores recent industrial action by doctors in the British National Health Service (NHS) through a psychoanalytic lens, exploring psychosocial context and the role of unconscious phantasy.

‘God knows why these Sanghaalis are so rabidly against C-section!’: spectre of medical coloniality haunts doctor-patient relationship in Guruprasad Kaginele’s Hijab (2020) ...

We report a survey of audience members' responses (147 questionnaires collected at seven performances) and 10 in-depth interviews (five former patients and two family members, three medical ...

Correspondence to Dr Stella Bolaki, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, 5 University Gardens. Glasgow, G12 8QQ; stella.bolaki{at}glasgow.ac.uk Alan Radley's previous work has focused on ...

There is a narrative told among healthcare providers that the public stories of trisomy 18 do not reflect the experiences of the many families navigating this diagnosis. This is in the context of a ...

The present study aims at establishing if anything has been learnt from 140 years of modern architecture when it comes to designing for inpatient mental health and to identifying how architecture can ...

Among the growing number of works of graphic fiction, a number of titles dealing directly with the patient experience of illness or caring for others with an illness are to be found. Thanks in part to ...

Illness narratives have traditionally been used as a conceptual tool for exploring experiences of chronic illness or disease. In this paper, I suggest that Frank's typology of illness narratives ...

In the process of deciding to undergo cosmetic surgery for aesthetic reasons, people may err in various ways. Adolescents in particular run the risk of making errors, and both parents and surgeons ...