This study investigates the relationship between non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and influenza morbidity during the 1918 pandemic, with a focus on urban and rural medical districts in Norway.

This article explores the representation of sexual health in black and brown communities in London during the early COVID-19 pandemic. I examine the ‘Sex & the Coronavirus’ (2020) health comic series ...

This article reconstructs the historical development and evolving conceptual architecture of the medical humanities since its emergence as a university subject in the 1960s. Originating in late 1960s ...

Colonial legacies are deeply rooted in everyday global health practice. This Topic Collection meaningfully engages with some of those legacies through a range of lenses including from research, ethics ...

Chronic diseases are among the leading causes of mortality in the world, the subject of major regional and international efforts to tackle shared risk factors, implement prevention and control ...

Orthorexia nervosa (ON) – a pathological obsession with healthy eating – has emerged as a cultural pathology intricately woven into neoliberal ideologies and biopolitical regimes. This paper ...

The study presented in this article is about the role played by imagination when national and international organisations convey the idea of a dystopian crisis involved in the real transition to a ...

Interdiscursivity and its historical shifts in China’s public health risk communication letters: from SARS to the post-COVID-19 era (9 December, 2025) ...

Tracing the evolution of informed consent from the Hippocratic tradition to the Ottoman Empire reveals its enduring role as a fundamental ethical principle supporting patient autonomy. Spanning ...

This article explores the role of humour and satire in promoting multispecies planetary health, with a focus on the work of Indian cartoonist Rohan Chakravarty. Following a critical examination of ...

Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Taylor, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, 41-47 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BE, UK; jonathan.taylor{at}magd.ox.ac.uk World War II had a profound, but uneven, ...

This article offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘The Map-Woman’, examining the metaphor of the female body as a map in relation to artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted ...