Journal of Medical Humanities

A project of Springer

About

The Journal of Medical Humanities is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that publishes innovative research, creative scholarship, poetry, essays, reviews, and short reports in the health humanities.
We welcome innovative submissions from scholars who seek to define what health humanities means in the 21st century. We understand health humanities to comprise scholarly inquiry employing humanities or arts-based methods and/or content and focusing on the experience of health and illness, embodiment, engagement with medicine or therapeutics, and/or technologies of bodily remedy or enhancement. Attention can be aimed at individual experience, broader public health and associated structural determinants of health and illness, or both. Health humanities scholarship acknowledges the interdisciplinary nature of its readership and, while providing nuanced and sophisticated interpretations, offers readers clear explanations of discipline-specific concepts, terms, and theoretical frameworks. Health humanities scholarship can be disciplinary or interdisciplinary (or even transdisciplinary), but its target audience includes a wide range of readers whose interest is the interplay among culture and medicine, health, illness, and embodiment. Readers expect scholarship that is inclusive and attentive to social justice issues, broadly construed.

Peer Review: This publication uses peer review for some or all submissions. Check for details.

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Media & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Published 4 x per year
Print Publication Print Publication: Published 4 x per year

AI Policy

Human-created work only; no AI use allowed

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Scholars, Specific group.

Lengths:

Review: Up to 1,200 words.
Article: Up to 10,000 words.
Essay: Up to 6,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Academic, Critical, Mainstream. Excluding: Technical.

Topics:

Health/Medicine: General, See guidelines.
Humanities: General, See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Submission manager.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Media: Text.

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Poetry that illuminates the primary foci of health humanities scholarship. For example, we seek poems that explore, critique, and/or record the experiences of illness, healing, embodiment, mortality, loss, disability, diversity, caregiving, health education, and medical practice.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Scholars, Specific group.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Health/Medicine: General, See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Submission manager.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are NOT allowed.
Media: Text.

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Journal of Medical Humanities Submission Statistics

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We have received 1 report within the past 12 months, not including pending responses (see below). The more responses reported, the more accurate the information.

Pending

5 responses are pending (7 min | 35.0 mean avg | 29.0 median | 73 max days waiting | 28.5 std dev) from 5 different members

Other Information

Most recent response reported was received on 16 Jul 2026.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 14 Jul 2026.
Date compiled: 18 Sep 2026 00:44 UTC (1 hour, 37 minutes ago).

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Dates

Last Updated: 07 Jul 2026

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