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 ...

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 ...

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Core symptoms of PTSD across four millennia: a phenomenological and nosographic analysis – from ancient Mesopotamian texts to modern psychiatric classifications ...

Many people with persistent symptoms navigate illness without an adequate explanatory framework. The systematic disadvantages that arise from the lack of a collectively shared explanation can be ...

Interdiscursivity refers to the blending of multiple discourses, genres, or styles within a single communicative event. This study investigates the interdiscursivity of Chinese public health risk ...

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 ...

Organ transplantation profoundly enhances survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage organ failure but presents challenges such as lifelong immunosuppression, complications and ...

“Come back as soon as possible”. I (BN) struggled to process the phone conversation I was having with my doctor. The call woke me from a desperately needed nap—the last time I slept had been 30 hours ...

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

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 ...

Correspondence to Mr Iliya Gutin, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27499, USA; igutin{at}live.unc.edu Biomedical research has a long and ...