Table of contents

Original articles

• The limits of narrative: provocations for the medical humanities (28 October, 2011)

  Angela Woods
• Medical humanities as expressive of Western culture (23 November, 2011)

  Claire Hooker, Estelle Noonan
• The arts and medicine: a challenging relationship (23 November, 2011)

  Paul Ulhas Macneill
• The humanising power of medical history: responses to biomedicine in the 20th century United States (31 July, 2011)

  John Harley Warner
• Body-conscious Shakespeare: sensory disturbances in troubled characters (14 June, 2011)

  Kenneth W Heaton
• Plagued by kindness: contagious sympathy in Shakespearean drama (2 September, 2011)

  Eric Langley
• The glue ear ‘epidemic’: a historical perspective (8 June, 2011)

  David Alderson
• The ‘I’ of the beholder: studying the ‘self’ across the humanities and neuroscience (23 August, 2011)

  Alessia Pannese
• ‘Why, why did you have me treated?’: the psychotic experience in a literary narrative (4 August, 2011)

  A A Kaptein, J J E Koopman, J A Weinman, M J Gosselink