Table of contents

Original research

• Creating comics, songs and poems to make sense of decolonising the curriculum: a collaborative autoethnography patchwork (20 October, 2023) Free

  Muna Al-Jawad, Gaurish Chawla, Neil Singh
• “And Then It Spreads”: contagion and disease as metaphors of sociomoral contamination in Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole

  (1 September, 2023)

  Arindam Nandi, Avishek Parui
• They are not all wolves: menstruation, young adult fiction and nuancing the teenage boy (15 September, 2023)

  Jemma Walton
• Illness and (hyper)masculinity in ‘HIMM’ comics from the USA (26 December, 2023)

  Paul Mitchell
• Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: interdisciplinary creative art practice and nature connections (21 December, 2023)

  Catherine Baker, Nina Morris, Athanasios Tsirikos, Olga Fotakopoulou, Flora Parrott
• Bearing witness poetically in a pandemic: documenting suffering and care in conditions of physical isolation and uncertainty (16 December, 2023)

  Katherine Boydell, Deborah Lupton
• The ‘Glasgow effect’: the controversial cultural life of a public health term (30 November, 2023)

  Fred Spence
• ‘It wasn’t what I was suited for’: regretful mothers negotiating their reproductive decision and mother role (17 November, 2023)

  Maja Bodin
• Narratives of childhood sexual abuse: healing through music in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach

  (6 November, 2023)

  Neha Hejaz, Rajni Singh
• Conceptual anatomy of the female genitalia using text mining and implications for patient care (26 December, 2023)

  Carmen Thong, Alexis Doyle
• Empowering the next generation: integrating adolescents into the Reproductive Justice movement (6 December, 2023)

  Julien Brisson, Mellissa Withers
• Ethical guidelines for antiracism work in medicine: lessons from the antiracist healing collaborative (6 December, 2023)

  Rupinder Legha, Russyan Mark Mabeza
• Redefining global cardiac surgery through an intersectionality lens (6 December, 2023)

  Dominique Vervoort, Lina A Elfaki, Maria Servito, Karla Yael Herrera-Morales, Kudzai Kanyepi
• “Quite simply they don’t communicate”: a case study of a National Health Service response to staff suicide (9 January, 2024)

  Ann Luce, Georgia Turner, Lauren Kennedy, Reece D Bush-Evans
• How and why to use ‘vulnerability’: an interdisciplinary analysis of disease risk, indeterminacy and normality (11 September, 2023)

  Andrea Ford, Giulia De Togni, Sonja Erikainen, Angela Marques Filipe, Martyn Pickersgill, Steve Sturdy, Julia Swallow, Ingrid Young
• Hospital space interpreted according to Heidegger’s concepts of care and dwelling (9 November, 2023)

  Hye Youn Park
• Too good for this world: moral bioenhancement and the ethics of making moral misfits (6 November, 2023)

  Katherine Ward
• Narrative Medicine Theory and Practice: the Double Helix Model (18 October, 2023)

  Liam Butchart, Shabnam Parsa
• Can ‘life writing’ be therapeutic in response to trauma? An exploratory research project in Medical Humanities in South Africa (6 October, 2023)

  Dawn Garisch, Janet Giddy, Giles Griffin, Steve Reid
• Meaning and role of functional-organic distinction: a study of clinicians in psychiatry and neurology services (15 November, 2023)

  Alice Chesterfield, Jordan Harvey, Callum Hendrie, Sam Wilkinson, Norha Vera San Juan, Vaughan Bell