Health humanities is a fast-growing, interdisciplinary field of study that examines how the arts and humanities can be applied to issues of health and well-being. Encompassing the longer-established medical humanities, it uses methods common to disciplines such as History, Literature, Philosophy, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Humanistic Social Sciences to explore and help transform the practice of medicine, healthcare and social care. In this collection you’ll find groundbreaking research and multidisciplinary perspectives from across our imprints, including exclusive author blogs and free access to journal articles and book chapters.
Insights from our researchers
Literature
Chapters
from The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature
from Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
from Spa Culture and Literature in England, 1500-1800
from Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany
from Narratives of Addiction
from Psychopharmacology in British Literature and Culture, 1780–1900
from Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland
from The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel
from Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France
from Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities
from Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction
from The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science
Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Chapters
from Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, U.S. Law, and Womanist Theology for Transgender Spiritual Care
from Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue
from Justice over the Course of Life
from Covid-19 and Capitalism
from Access to Medicines and Vaccines
from Buddhism and Human Flourishing
Articles
from Contemporary Jewry
from Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
from Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
from History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
from Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
from Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
from HEC Forum
from Erkenntnis
History
Chapters
from Voices in the History of Madness
from Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum
from Lobotomy Nation
from Hungarian Psychiatry, Society and Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century
from Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War
from From Melancholia to Depression
from Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War
from Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century
from Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire, 1780–1970
from Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967
from Placing the Public in Public Health in Post-War Britain, 1948–2012
from Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains
from Bodily Fluids, Chemistry and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Boerhaave School
from Health and Healthcare Policy in Italy since 1861
from Florence Nightingale at Home
from The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery
from The Palgrave Handbook of Infertility in History
Media, Culture And The Arts
Chapters
from (Un)doing Diabetes: Representation, Disability, Culture
from Surrogacy and the Reproduction of Normative Family on TV
from Applied Theatre and Sexual Health Communication
from Mental Health, Mental Illness and Migration
from Re/Imagining Depression
from Documentary and Disability
from Performance and Dementia
from New Fathers, Mental Health and Digital Communication
from Madness in Contemporary British Theatre
from Places of Traumatic Memory
Articles
from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Public Health And Well-Being
Chapters
from Challenges and Opportunities in Health Professions Education
from Medical Liability in Asia and Australasia
from Insurance and Human Rights
Articles
from Feminist Legal Studies
from Human Rights Review
from Applied Research in Quality of Life
from Journal of Happiness Studies
from Journal of International Migration and Integration
from European Journal of Ageing
from Child Indicators Research
from Ageing International
from International Journal on Child Maltreatment
from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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