Health Humanities Journals
The field of health humanities benefits from diverse outlets across disciplines and borders to publish and share scholarship and innovations. Below, you will find an alphabetical listing of journals in the health humanities and related fields, complete with descriptions of each journal and, as available, a link to the website.
This list is maintained by CAHH, and it is ever evolving as the health humanities landscape continues to change and grow. Please submit suggestions for changes or additions by email to: cahhsecretary@cahh.ca. Please include the title of the journal, a brief description (i.e., up to 100 words), and a link to the website in the email.
Academic Medicine is the official, peer-reviewed journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The journal serves as an international forum for the exchange of ideas, information, and strategies to address the major challenges facing the academic medicine community as it strives to carry out its missions in the public interest. The journal’s areas of focus include: education and training issues; health and science policy; institutional policy, management, and values; research practice; and clinical practice in academic settings.
Our editorial mission is to help medical students, physicians, and all health care professionals make sound ethical decisions in service to patients and society. Founded in 1999, the AMA Journal of Ethics explores ethical questions and challenges that students and clinicians confront in their educational and practice careers.
American Journal of Bioethics:
Every issue of AJOB contains peer-reviewed Target Articles that zero in on tough questions, answered by Open Commentary articles from scholars across disciplines and cultures. The American Journal of Bioethics provides an authoritative, annotated conversation that has been used by judges, Senators, journalists, scholars, schoolteachers, and millions of others as the key source on thousands of topics in the health sciences.... The American Journal of Bioethics has followed through on the innovative vision that built bioethics: serious discussion of the social implications of biomedicine.
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine:
The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Medicine is a monthly, peer-reviewed journal. In 35 years of publication, AJHPM has highlighted the interdisciplinary team approach to hospice and palliative medicine as related to the care of the patient and family. This journal, therefore, appeals to members of the team including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, pastoral counselors, psychologists, program administrators, and any other specialty involved in this care. Editorials, commentaries, opinions, original research articles, ongoing topical series, and review articles are the format of AJHPM. With changes in health care, aging of the population and the chronicity of a wide array of diseases, AJHPM provides a stimulating and educational forum to maintain relevance in the field of hospice and palliative medicine.
American Journal of Kidney Disease:
Includes the “In a Few Words” section: In this space, we hope to give voice to the personal experiences and stories that define kidney disease. We will accept for review nonfiction, narrative submissions up to 1,600 words, regarding the personal, ethical, or policy implications of any aspect of kidney disease in adults and children (acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, dialysis, transplantation, ethics, health policy, genetics, etc). Footnotes or references are discouraged. Any submission which refers to real patients must be either unidentifiable or approved by the patient(s) described. Submissions from physicians, allied health professionals, patients, or family members are welcome.
AJN welcomes submissions by nurses of narratives, commentaries, photo-essays, and other forms of writing. See specific guidelines for Reflections, Viewpoint, and some columns or contact Editorial Director Shawn Kennedy at shawn.kennedy@wolterskluwer.com to discuss specific formats not discussed in these guidelines.
Published by the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities. Each issue focuses on a different theme related to these disciplines, but each contributor explores the theme in different, thought-provoking ways. The publication of Atrium is currently on a temporary hiatus.
Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and Humanities:
Ars Medica is a biannual literary journal, started in 2004, that explores the interface between the arts and healing, and examines what makes medicine an art. Content includes narratives from patients and health care workers, medical history, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We also include sections on writing by and about children, and writing about international health. These are voices that are often silenced in healthcare.
The Bellevue Literary Review, founded in 2000, was created as a forum for creatively exploring a broad array of issues in medicine and society, using fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to better understand the nuanced tensions that define our lives both in illness and in health. We are devoted to publishing writing that brings together the perspectives of patients, caregivers, family members, students, healthcare professionals, and the general public, allowing for deeper understanding of others’ experiences.
Blood & Thunder is a medically themed arts journal published by the students of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. It is the goal and purpose of Blood & Thunder to enhance the education of healthcare professionals through the exploration of artistic expression.
BMC International Journal for Equity in Health:
Presents evidence relevant to the search for, and attainment of, equity in health across and within countries. International Journal for Equity in Health publishes research which improves the understanding of issues that influence the distribution of health and healthcare within populations. This includes the discussion of political, policy-related, economic, social and health systems- and services-related influences, particularly with regard to identifying and understanding the systematic differences or the lived experiences of one or more aspects of health in population groups defined demographically, geographically, or socially.
Border Crossings does what our name says. We cross the borders where one art form moves into another; where art and architecture intersect; where video reflects film; where painting continues its talk with photography; where fiction and poetry work their continual reinvention of language...We are interested in the places where one art meets another; we like being between things, and we find the edge when the art we’re looking at takes us there.
British Medical Journal's Medical Humanities:
Medical Humanities presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large. Medical Humanities is led by Dr Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health. Medical Humanities is an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine:
A leading journal in its field for more than three quarters of a century, the Bulletin spans the social, cultural, and scientific aspects of the history of medicine worldwide. Every issue includes reviews of recent books on medical history. Recurring sections include Digital Humanities & Public History and Pedagogy. Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official publication of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine.
Canadian Family Physician (CFP), a peer-reviewed medical journal, is the official publication of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Our mission is to ensure that practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers are informed on current issues and in touch with the latest thinking in the discipline of family medicine; to serve family physicians in all types of practice in every part of Canada in both official languages; to advance the continuing development of family medicine as a discipline; and to contribute to the ongoing improvement of patient care.
CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), Student Humanities Blog:
This joint initiative between The Canadian Federation of Medical Students and the Canadian Medical Association Journal seeks high-quality, original submissions from medical students, that may include poetry, essays, critiques, reviews (of films, novels, theatre, exhibitions etc.), interviews, reflections, graphic medicine and visual art related to the medical humanities.
CMAJ Humanities includes two types of articles:
Encounters are nonfiction narrative descriptions of health care experiences written by patients, clinicians, and other caregivers. We encourage authors to reflect on their experience of health care and especially value contributions that convey personal and professional encounters with a sense of immediacy and realism.
Medicine and Society articles address what influences the way we think about health, how that thinking has changed over the years, and who benefits from one perspective over another. We welcome scholarship from across multiple disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, and bioethics.
We seek quality stories, narratives, poems, and other offerings, whether serious or light hearted. Cell 2 Soul is a supportive place to get your work published.
Devoted to the discussion of key issues surrounding the application of ethics in clinical practice, research and policy this journal features original peer-reviewed research papers on issues in clinical ethics, case studies with extensive commentary from experts and updates on important legal developments. Clinical Ethics continues to focus on the needs of professionals who are actually engaged in making difficult ethical decisions in health care. With an international editorial board, it features increasing coverage of developments around the globe.
Cogent Arts & Humanities is a leading multidisciplinary, peeer-reviewed journal that welcomes research across the full breadth of the arts and humanities, as well as work exploring interconnections. As part of Routledge, and under the guidance of the global editorial team, the journal’s mission is to make quality arts and humanities research accessible to all.
Explores the relations of literature and the arts to the sciences and technology. Founded in 1993, the journal continues to set the stage for transdisciplinary research concerning the interplay between science, technology, and the arts. Configurations is the official publication of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA).
Connective Tissue (UT Health, San Antonio):
Since 2008, Connective Tissue has played an important role in cultivating arts and humanities at the UT Health San Antonio. Connective Tissue is a student-led publication connected to the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at UT Health San Antonio.
Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the multidisciplinary field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.
Online Journal of Community and Patient-Centered Dermatology (formerly Dermanities):
Dermanities (an online journal) was launched in December of 2002 by Benjamin Barankin, M.D. and David J. Elpern, M.D. based on the lack of coverage of the humanities and patient care in the dermatology literature. While there are countless dermatology journals globally, none consistently address this important area. Through essays, humor, poetry, photography and the shared collective wisdom of the global community, Dermanities’ aim was to enrich the dermatological and medical community. In 2012, we transferred Dermanities to The Online Journal of Community and Patient-Centered Dermatology (OJCPCD). We encourage you to submit ideas, essays, poems, & humor, photos, as well as evidence-based papers relating to the humanities and the interaction with medical practice in general and dermatology in particular to OJCPCD.
Esopus: (no longer in publication, archives available online)
From its inception until 2018, the Esposus Foundation was primarily devoted to the publishing of Esopus, an annual publication edited by founder Tod Lippy featuring content from all creative disciplines presented in an unmediated format.
The Examined Life Journal (University of Iowa):
The Examined Life Journal began in the Fall of 2010 when a group of physicians who were also writers approached the director of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Writing and Humanities Program with the idea for starting a journal that explored the confluence of art and medicine.
Explorations: An E-Journal of Narrative Practice:
This free online journal provides an international, peer-reviewed forum for accounts of narrative therapy and narrative practice. We hope that this e-journal will contribute to the creative development of narrative practices by supporting new generations of writers, and enabling free access to articles about narrative practice to people in different parts of the world. We primarily publish in the following fields of narrative practice: Narrative therapy & supervision; Community work, social work, and social action; Client and community knowledges; Research; Conflict resolution and peace-building; Education and training.
Families, Systems, & Health (American Psychological Association):
A peer-reviewed, inter-disciplinary journal publishing original research, review and conceptual papers, book and media reviews, and humanities contributions in the areas of health, systems, and families science, with a particular focus on integrated care.
The Healing Muse is the annual journal of literary and visual art published by SUNY Upstate Medical University's Center for Bioethics & Humanities. We welcome fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs and visual art, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine, illness, disability and healing.
Feautres multiple “sections” on art, ethics, healthcare, history and literature. All articles appearing in the journal are first published in the appropriate section... The articles may later be featured in the quarterly Current Issue, in the Hektorama magazine, in Themes, and in the Social Media.
Hospital Drive (University of Virginia School of Medicine):
Hospital Drive is the on-line literary and humanities journal of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The journal publishes original literature and art on themes of health, illness, and healing.
Human Factor (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
The Human Factor is the UMKC School of Medicine publication that celebrates the connection between art, humanities and the practice of medicine. The publication showcases the wonderful creativity, imagination and talent of our students, alumni, residents, faculty and staff. All of the printed words and images featured in this publication make the important link between an appreciation of art and compassionate patient care — illustrating the significant role of medical humanities.
International Journal of Health Services:
The International Journal of Health Services delivers articles on health and social policy, political economy and sociology, history and philosophy, ethics and law in the areas of health and well-being. JOH provides analysis of developments in the health and social sectors of every area of the world, including relevant scholarly articles, position papers, and stimulating debates about the most controversial issues of the day. The journal is of interest to health professionals and social scientists interested in the many different facets of health, quality of life, and wellbeing of populations.
A literary journal dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of Narrative Medicine, an interdisciplinary field that enhances healthcare through the effective communication and understanding between caregivers and patients. Our name Intima has a specific resonance in the field: Narrative Medicine defines itself as the intimate interface between two people, one as healer, one as being healed, who both yield and gain from the experience of the clinical encounter.
JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal. JAMA is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medical and specialty publications... JAMA’s key objective is to promote the science and art of medicine and the betterment of the public health.
The Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM:)
The Journal of General Internal Medicine is the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine. It promotes improved patient care, research, and education in primary care, general internal medicine, and hospital medicine. Its articles focus on topics such as clinical medicine, epidemiology, prevention, health care delivery, curriculum development, and numerous other non-traditional themes, in addition to classic clinical research on problems in internal medicine.... JGIM seeks high-quality creative writing related to medicine and health, especially general internal medicine and primary care. JGIM publishes a section/ format entitled
Matieria Medica....Materia Medica: Well-crafted and engaging personal narratives, essays, or short stories of up to 1000 words or poetry of up to 40 lines. Works should tell a story that informs and illuminates the practice and teaching of medicine. Non-fiction manuscripts must either disguise or protect persons’ identities, or permission must be obtained from the individual and confirmed by completion of the JGIM Statement of Patient Consent. Multiple poems should be submitted separately, generating individual manuscript tracking numbers.
British Medical Journal (BMJ) group: Journal of Medical Ethics is a leading international journal that reflects the whole field of medical ethics. The journal promotes ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical practice. It features articles on ethical aspects of health care relevant to health care professionals, members of clinical ethics committees, medical ethics professionals, researchers and bioscientists, policy makers and patients.
Journal of Medical Humanities:
Publishes original interdisciplinary studies of medicine and medical education. Research findings emerge from three areas of investigation: medical humanities, cultural studies, and pedagogy. Medical humanities covers literature on history, philosophy, and bioethics as well as social and behavioral sciences that have strong humanistic traditions. Inquiries based on cultural studies may include multidisciplinary activities involving the humanities; women's, African-American, and other critical studies; media studies and popular culture; and sociology and anthropology. Lastly, pedagogical perspectives elucidate what and how knowledge is made and valued in medicine, how that knowledge is expressed and transmitted, and the ideological basis of medical education.
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy:
The flagship scholarly journal in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. Its contributors and focus are international, addressing bioethical concerns across the world. Significant attention has been given to bioethics and foundational issues in health care policy in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. The journal’s concerns range from clinical bioethics and health care policy, to studies in the philosophy of medicine such as explorations of the nature of concepts of health and disease, as well as the character of medical explanation.
Journal of The Surgical Humanities (University of Saskatchewan):
The Journal of the Surgical Humanities originates from the Surgical Humanities Programs at the University of Saskatchewan. The Surgical Humanities Program within the Department of Surgery seeks to educate and engage surgeons, residents and medical students in the humanities. Music, art, literature, philosophy, drama, languages and the history of surgery are all being recruited in this effort and avenues of active involvement and research in the surgical humanities are offered.
In conjunction with The Permanente Journal, The Permanente Press presents this medical literary and arts e-journal, leaflet – to open greater opportunity to share the creative visual and written works of physicians and nurses.
Literature and Medicine (John Hopkins University Press):
Founded in 1982, Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Areas of interest include disease, illness, health, and disability; violence, trauma, and power relations; and the cultures of biomedical science and technology and of the clinic, as these are represented and interpreted in verbal, visual, and material texts. Literature and Medicine features one thematic and one general issue each year. Past theme issues have explored identity and difference; contagion and infection; cancer pathography; the representations of genomics; and the narration of pain. Devoted to exploring interfaces between literary and medical knowledge and understanding.
Medical Education seeks to be the pre-eminent journal in the field of education for health care professionals, and publishes material of the highest quality, reflecting world-wide or provocative issues and perspectives. The journal welcomes high quality papers on all aspects of health professional education including: undergraduate education, postgraduate training, continuing professional development, and interprofessional education.
A publication of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare, which accepts poetry, essays etc. about doctors and patients.
Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy:
The official journal of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care. It provides a forum for international exchange of research data, theories, reports and opinions on bioethics, and the philosophy of medicine and healthcare in general. The journal promotes interdisciplinary studies, and stimulates international exchange. Particular attention is paid to developing contributions from all European countries, and to making accessible scientific work and reports on the practice of healthcare ethics, from all nations, cultures and language areas in Europe. This journal covers history, ethics, anthropology, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of science and technology, sociology and political science, law and the philosophy of culture and religion, centered on a common object of reflection: health care, the human effort to deal with disease, illness, death as well as health, well-being and life.
Presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, health policy, medical education, patient experience and the public at large. Led by Dr. Brandy Schillace, the journal publishes scholarly and critical articles on a broad range of topics. These include history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability studies, gender and the body, communities in crisis, bioethics, and public health. Notes: Medical Humanities (BMJ publication) 6x/year. Available CMA Library, the official journal of the Association for Medical Humanities
A student-run medical humanities journal at McMaster University. Our goal is to provide a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue, highlighting the ways in which the arts and healing intersect.
The official journal of the Association for Medical Education in Europe. Addresses the needs of teachers and administrators throughout the world involved in training for the health professions. This includes courses at basic and post-basic levels as well as the increasingly important area of continuing education. In particular, the journal recognises the problems teachers have in keeping up-to-date with the developments in educational methods that lead to more effective teaching and learning at a time when the content of the curriculum, from medical procedures to policy changes in health care provision, is also changing.
Began publication in 1991 and was originally known as Journal of Narrative and Life History (JNLH). Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical, and methodological work on narrative. Articles appearing in Narrative Inquiry draw upon a variety of approaches and methodologies in the study of narrative as a way to give contour to experience, tradition, and values to next generations. Particular emphasis is placed on theoretical approaches to narrative and the analysis of narratives in human interaction, including those practiced by researchers in psychology, linguistics and related disciplines.
Narrative Matters (Health Affairs Journal):
Narrative Matters is an aspect of the Health Affairs journal, is the leading journal of health policy thought and research. The peer-reviewed journal was founded in 1981 under the aegis of Project HOPE, a nonprofit international health education organization. Health Affairs explores health policy issues of current concern in domestic and international spheres. Its mission is to serve as a high-level, nonpartisan forum to promote analysis and discussion on improving health and health care, and to address such issues as cost, quality, and access. The journal reaches a broad audience that includes: government and health industry leaders; health care advocates; scholars of health, health care and health policy; and others concerned with health and health care issues in the United States and worldwide.
Palette is a student-led publication affiliated with the University of Toronto that fosters artistic expression, collaboration, and dialogue within the medical community. Featuring student talent in the visual arts, creative writing, performance arts, and lifestyle design, Palette provides a platform to both celebrate creative authenticity and unite diverse interests among students.
Patient Education and Counseling:
Patient Education and Counseling is an interdisciplinary, international journal for patient education and health promotion researchers, managers and clinicians. The journal seeks to explore and elucidate the educational, counseling and communication models in health care. Its aim is to provide a forum for fundamental as well as applied research, and to promote the study of organizational issues involved with the delivery of patient education, counseling, health promotion services and training models in improving communication between providers and patients.
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine:
An interdisciplinary scholarly journal whose readers include biologists, physicians, students, and scholars, publishes essays that place important biological or medical subjects in broader scientific, social, or humanistic contexts. These essays span a wide range of subjects, from biomedical topics such as neurobiology, genetics, and evolution, to topics in ethics, history, philosophy, and medical education and practice. The editors encourage an informal style that has literary merit and that preserves the warmth, excitement, and color of the biological and medical sciences.
Alpha Omega Alpha’s quarterly journal (published since 1938) on the medical humanities. Publishes scholarly essays (history, literature, art, ethics, economics, health policy and profiles of prominent persons); scholarly nonfiction on a medical subjects; poetry and poetry/photography combos; personal essays.
The UK’s largest medical humanities web-platform. We seek to publish the most exciting work in the medical and health humanities: our aim is to capture, celebrate and extend the diversity of voices which together make up this interdisciplinary field of research, creative and clinical practice. We welcome the political and passionate alongside the scholarly and contemplative; the review alongside the provocation; the podcast, fragment or graphic intervention alongside more traditional essays and posts. We launched in October 2018, and have since published over 120 essays, opinion pieces, and reviews, attracting over 37,000 views in the past 11 months, and gathering over 8,000 followers on Twitter. We are affiliated with Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities.
The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities (University of Exeter):
PJMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary journal open to postgraduate students across the globe, and reflects the varied and exciting research being carried out within the field of the medical humanities at present.
Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine:
Launched in 2008, Pulse was created by members of the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in collaboration with colleagues and friends around the country. At a time when the pioneering work of Rita Charon has established the value of narrative medicine--an approach that places a premium on personal perspectives within a healthcare encounter--Pulse makes narrative medicine available to all and accessible to anyone. Since its launch, Pulse has drawn the attention of the national media and policymakers. Widely used by medical educators to promote humanism and professionalism, Pulse enjoys a broad readership drawn to its diverse voices, compelling writing and authenticity. Pulse welcomes submissions by anyone who has a healthcare story to tell.
Plexus: (University of California Irvine)
The annual journal is dedicated to encouraging and publishing original and creative content from all those connected to the healthcare field. Each year we select a theme to highlight a specific healthcare issue and seek artwork and creative pieces from the entire community.
Reflexions: Literary and Fine Arts Journal:
Reflexions is the Literary and Fine Arts Journal of Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The journal features poetry, fiction, narratives, photography, and art based on both health topics and non-health themes. We accept submissions from students, faculty, staff, and alumni across the medical center, who are also welcome to be part of the journal's selection, editing, and layout process.
As the only general art history journal in Canada, RACAR’s scope reflects the range and diversity of art history practices in Canada and internationally. The articles we publish cover all countries and periods, as well as the history of design. In addition to publishing reviews of recent books and exhibitions, we also offer space for artists to present, reflect upon, and discuss their work, as well as a forum for current concerns, debates, and polemics in art history.
RACAR is published by the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC). We are housed at the Université du Québec à Montréal thanks to the joint support of UQAM’s Faculté des arts, Département d'histoire de l'art, École des arts visuels et médiatiques, École de design, and its graduate programs in museology.
RHiME is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal devoted to the Humanities in Health Professions Education. It is published by the Medical Humanities Group, University College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, India. To reach out to authors and readers from around the world the journal has an international Advisory Board.
Where ‘Medical Education’ includes all aspects of teaching and learning medicine, the ‘Medical/Health humanities’ are an inter-disciplinary way of looking at learning and practice through the lens of art, drama, film, poetry, philosophy, theology, history, literature, anthropology, and other humanities disciplines.
Provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of social science research on health. We publish original research articles (both empirical and theoretical), reviews, position papers and commentaries on health issues, to inform current research, policy and practice in all areas of common interest to social scientists, health practitioners, and policy makers. The journal publishes material relevant to any aspect of health from a wide range of social science disciplines (anthropology, economics, epidemiology, geography, policy, psychology, and sociology), and material relevant to the social sciences from any of the professions concerned with physical and mental health, health care, clinical practice, and health policy and organization. We encourage material which is of general interest to an international readership.
Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal was founded in 2017 by Arden Hegele, a literary scholar, and Rishi Goyal, a physician. Our mission is to develop conversations among diverse people thinking about medical and humanistic ways of knowing, and we see ourselves as a “Department Without Walls” that connects scholars and thinkers from different spheres. We are grateful for the support of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics:
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics is an international forum for interdisciplinary studies in the ethics of health care and in the philosophy and methodology of medical practice and biomedical research. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics publishes original scholarly articles, occasional special issues on important topics and book reviews.
thirdspace (Harvard Medical School):
thirdspace is an online journal dedicated to recording the unique experience of medical education. We give voice to an international community of writers and artists creatively exploring the challenges, rewards, and peculiarities of premedical and medical education, residency, and fellowship training. This journal seeks to transcend the strictures of personal and professional identities by providing a space for the unrepressed consideration of physicians in training as self-aware, complex human beings.
Wild Onions (Hershey Medical Center)
Wild Onions is an annual publication funded by the Department of Humanities, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. It is a journal of poetry, prose, and visual art, created by members of the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Community. Most entries will pertain to some dimension of medicine (for example, the experiences, observations, and reflections of patients, nurses, physicians, medical students, family members, hospital staff, volunteers, visitors, etc.), but we invite submissions on all topics.
Wild Onions is seeking striking images from the bedside, clinic, or lab bench, whether or not these were originally intended as artwork. Entries must be original work not published previously and may take any form: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, cartoons, graphic novella or short story, photography, drawings, paintings. Wild Onions serves this goal by encouraging literary and artistic work that seeks to describe and understand, with empathy, the experiences of giving and receiving health care.
Yale Journal for Humanities and Medicine:
YJHM welcomes submissions for publication from doctors, nurses, patients, family members, and others interested in the humanities and medicine. We welcome poetry, essays, and arts reviews with some flexibility in those categories.