Table of contents

Original articles

• Pain as metaphor: metaphor and medicine (7 August, 2015)

  Shane Neilson
• In the shadow of the asylum: the Stanley Royd Salmonella outbreak of 1984 (31 August, 2015)

  Jennifer Wallis
• Medical student mandala making for holistic well-being (4 September, 2015)

  Jordan S Potash, Julie Yun Chen, Joyce Pui Yan Tsang
• Storying, fiction and philosophy: turning our attention to the traumatised or damaged nurse (11 September, 2015)

  Mark Radcliffe
• Storytelling in the context of vaccine refusal: a strategy to improve communication and immunisation (5 October, 2015)

  Philip B Cawkwell, David Oshinsky
• Language, terminology and the readability of online cancer information (3 November, 2015)

  Pam Peters, Adam Smith, Yasmin Funk, John Boyages
• Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go: a model of ‘completion’ for the end of life

  (17 November, 2015)

  Robert C Abrams
• Youth blogging and serious illness (15 December, 2015)

  Linda Nesby, Anita Salamonsen
• Perceptions of music therapy for older people among healthcare professionals (11 December, 2015)

  Waqas Ullah Khan, Irin Arina Mohamad Onn Yap, Desmond O'Neill, Hilary Moss
• Portrait of a process: arts-based research in a head and neck cancer clinic (7 January, 2016)

  Mark A Gilbert, William M Lydiatt, Virginia A Aita, Regina E Robbins, Dennis P McNeilly, Michele Marie Desmarais