Table of contents

Original research

• Genetics, molar pregnancies and medieval ideas of monstrous births: the lump of flesh in The King of Tars (7 August, 2018)

  Natalie Goodison, Deborah J G Mackay, I Karen Temple
• Sensing space and making place: the hospital and therapeutic landscapes in two cancer narratives (2 May, 2018)

  Victoria Bates
• Feet and fertility in the healing temples: a symbolic communication system between gods and men? (9 June, 2018)

  Marco Cilione, Silvia Marinozzi, Valentina Gazzaniga
• Lessons from Frankenstein: narrative myth as ethical model (10 July, 2018)

  Yvette Koepke
• From post-traumatic stress disorder to absolute dependence in an intensive care unit: reflections on a clinical account (20 June, 2018)

  Tina Sideris
• Sophistry in American medicine? Platonic reflections on expertise, influence and the public’s health in the democratic context (14 July, 2018)

  Evan V Goldstein
• It’s like another world: the perceived beneficial effects of an artistically designed multisensory environment (16 July, 2018)

  Bliss Cavanagh, Kirsti Haracz, Miranda Lawry, Carole James
• Acting by persuasion— values and rhetoric in medical certificates of work incapacity: A qualitative document analysis (18 September, 2018)

  Guri Aarseth, Bård Natvig, Eivind Engebretsen, Anne Kveim Lie
• The politics of female pain: women’s citizenship, twilight sleep and the early birth control movement (28 September, 2018) Free

  Lauren MacIvor Thompson