This manifesto seeks to challenge dominant narratives about the future of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Current predictions are mainly driven by technological …

In this paper, we imagine how future technologies could support people who have severe hearing and visual impairment or a deafblind condition. Much effort has gone into assistive …

Medical Humanities is led by Dr Sabina Dosani, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability …

Tumbling down the rabbit hole. Losing the evident, one is forced out of everyday life’s comfort zone with the many sensory habits and reassurances (Duhigg 2014).Like Alice in Wonderland …

This article explores disabled experience and the future of technologies relating to augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). This field includes people’s use of AAC devices, …

The question of why more people in Glasgow were dying, and younger, compared with English cities with almost identical levels of deprivation, was a hot topic in Scottish public health …

Jun 1, 2005 · Jane Austen is typically described as having excellent health until the age of 40 and the onset of a mysterious and fatal illness, initially identified by Sir Zachary Cope in 1964 as …

Oct 1, 2024 · This article conveys how taking patient knowledge seriously can improve patient experience and further medical science. In clinical contexts related to infection-associated …

In this article I explore how Cicely Saunders championed the hospice movement and initiated what became palliative care by representing her emotional connections with others. She …

In recent years, ‘vulnerability’ has been getting more traction in theoretical, professional and popular spaces as an alternative or complement to the concept of risk. As a group of science …