Illness narratives have traditionally been used as a conceptual tool for exploring experiences of chronic illness or disease. In this paper, I suggest that Frank's typology of illness narratives ...

Jane Austen’s letters describe a two-year deterioration into bed-ridden exhaustion, with unusual colouring, bilious attacks and rheumatic pains. In 1964, Zachary Cope postulated tubercular Addison’s ...

2 Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Anesthesia Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA In 2000, the Arts and Humanities ...

School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UK Heart transplantation is now the accepted therapy for end-stage heart failure that is resistant to medical ...

The primary claim of this paper is that understanding the stigma so commonly endured by chronic pain sufferers today in the USA and the UK is unlikely without proper appreciation of the history of ...

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, South Kensington, London, UK Correspondence to Diana Davenport, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine ...