Background A tension between free will and determinism shapes narratives of type 2 diabetes and obesity, contributing to stigma and defining how these conditions are culturally understood. Results ...

How should we put the experiences of young children into language? What are the ethics of using one’s words to describe the world of an other? Particularly those who do not linguistically live their ...

Migrants assuming caregiving roles for other migrants require care themselves. We report on how migrants in South Africa navigate the dual responsibilities of caregiving and self-care. 15 ...

Psychiatric textbooks tend to describe psychosis as it is experienced by men. The well-documented illness of Zelda Fitzgerald illustrates the feminine side of psychosis. The distinctive features of ...

The current, popular view of the novel Frankenstein is that it describes the horrors consequent upon scientific experimentation; the pursuit of science leading inevitably to tragedy. In reality the ...