Department of Occupational Health Education, Hyperbaric Medical Center, Graduate School of Allied Health Sciences Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Department of Community Health Nursing, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Course of Community Health Nursing, The Japanese Red Cross Musashino Junior College of Nursing, Department of Mental Health Nursing, Nagano College of Nursing, Depar...

The article discusses the possibility of applying Kuhn's concept of paradigm to collective health. The concept and its use in epidemiology, planning and the social sciences are reviewed briefly. The study stresses the multi-paradigmatic character of collective health, resulting from the convergence of multiple epistemologies and the involvement of diverse fields such as the biological sciences,...

It is a pleasure and a privilege to be able to introduce this guest-edited edition of Medical Humanities on the theme of the ‘Critical Medical Humanities’. The issue is the result of outstanding leadership by William Viney, Felicity Callard and Angela Woods who have demonstrated their commitment to both intellectual originality and unforgiving editorial deadlines throughout the process. Their w...

Psychiatry is unique in medicine in being on the border between science and the humanities. Science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem, enabling us to formulate an 'explanation', while the humanities provide insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. The new interdisciplinary field of 'philosophy of psychiatry' has developed to explore the range of issues relev...

Nursing has interfaces with numerous other areas in the production of knowledge, involving Biological and Health Sciences (Medicine, Biology, Nutrition, Physical Therapy, and others), the Humanities (Psychology, Education, History) and Applied Social Sciences (Organizations, Work , Education, Communication, Information Technology and Economics). Many of these interfaces/interactions are already...

The stereotype of the multi-authored Digital Humanities paper is well known but has not, until now, been empirically investigated. Here we present the results of a statistical analysis of collaborative publishing patterns in Computers and the Humanities (CHum) (1966–2004); Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC) (1986–2011); and, as a control, the Annals of the Association of American Geographe...

The Environmental Humanities constitute an emerging transdisciplinary enterprise that is becoming a key part of the liberal arts and an indispensable component of the twenty-first-century university. Bringing together scholars from a number of environmentally related fields in the humanities and allied social sciences—including Ecocriticism (Literature and Environment studies), Environmental Hi...

Science can provide cures and improve health, and it can also make us more humane.

UNLABELLED This article frames the intersections of medicine and humanities as intrinsic to understanding the practice of health care in Africa. Central to this manuscript, which draws on empirical findings on the interplay between HIV and AIDS and alternative medicine in Zimbabwe is the realisation that very limited research has been undertaken to examine 'HIV/AIDS patient behaviour' with resp...

Welfare and Health Promotion Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Social Psychology, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland; Department of Social Research/Social Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; Consumer Society Resear...