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Medical Humanities

is an international journal from BMJ and IME publishing studies on the history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability, gender, bioethics & medical education

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Medical Humanities is led by Dr Sabina Dosani, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health.

Medical Humanities is an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics.

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Sabina Dosani, Norwich, UK
Editorial team

From January 2023, Medical Humanities will publish solely online. Find out more

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Medical Humanities accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including Original Reports, Review Essays and Current Controversies.

The Author Information section provides specific article requirements to help you turn your research into an article suitable for MH.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

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Latest Articles

Editorial:

Death, desire and disruptors

27 May 2025

Current controversy:

'Future Docs for Abortion Access: lessons learnt from 1 year of medical student advocacy in the USA

27 May 2025

Current controversy:

Case conference and para case conference: asking different questions about disability and structural ableism

27 May 2025

Current controversy:

Sex and psychedelics: a wide-lens look at a burgeoning field

27 May 2025

Original research:

The quality of qualitative research

27 May 2025

Podcasts

First Look: Forthcoming Topic Collections

New Socio-Cultural and Political Directions for Transplantation: Transplantation and Its Imaginaries

Health, Policy and Emotion

Talking About Sex and Reproduction: Counselling in Postwar Europe

Blog Posts

Trust Me, I’m an Influencer: MDs and Subtle Ads on Social Media

18 February 2025

The Shipping Community and Health Emergencies: Reflections from the Past

5 February 2025

Deaf futurity: designing and innovating hearing aids

28 January 2025

Why Robot Embodiment Matters: Questions of Disability, Race and Intersectionality in the Design of Social Robots

23 January 2025

Journal Announcements Special Issues

Exploring cultural imaginaries of robots with children with brittle bone disease: a participatory design study

22 January 2025

Journal Announcements Special Issues

Altmetrics

“That’s me at my best”: perspectives of older adults on involvement in technology research
24 December 2024

The Jew’s penis: circumcision and sexual pathology in eighteenth-century England
30 December 2022

The Cost of Dying Exhibition: public, professional and political reactions to a visual exhibition depicting experiences of poverty at the end of life
24 June 2024

Pandemics and the gothic, then and now: a hum in the background
14 May 2025

Reimagining the ‘Lost’ narratives of advanced dementia through literature and critical fabulation
22 May 2025

Featured Video

Medical Humanities - our story

4 June 2025

Meet Sabina Dosani, the Editor-in-chief for the Medical Humanities, and hear what she has to say about the journal and its priorities.

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