Table of contents

Original articles

• Ideology and disease identity: the politics of rickets, 1929–1982 (16 May, 2014)

  Roberta Bivins
• ‘Heavier the interval than the consummation’: bronchial disease in Seán Ó Ríordáin's diaries (16 May, 2014)

  Ciara Breathnach
• Accounting for personhood in palliative sedation: the Ring Theory of Personhood (16 May, 2014)

  Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
• He drove forward with a yell: anger in medicine and Homer (16 May, 2014)

  A Bleakley, R Marshall, D Levine
• A short history of providing medical history within the British medical undergraduate curriculum (16 May, 2014)

  N H Metcalfe, E Stuart
• The madness of Gerard de Nerval (16 May, 2014)

  Allan Beveridge
• The use of abstract paintings and narratives to foster reflective capacity in medical educators: a multinational faculty development workshop (16 May, 2014)

  Khaled Karkabi, Hedy S Wald, Orit Cohen Castel
• Humanising illness: presenting health information in educational comics (16 May, 2014) Free

  Sarah McNicol
• Fight like a ferret: a novel approach of using art therapy to reduce anxiety in stroke patients undergoing hospital rehabilitation (16 May, 2014)

  Khalid Ali, Tony Gammidge, Diane Waller