Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, J. (2023). Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19. Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012602

Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has r... Read More about Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19.

Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs (2021)
Journal Article
Yoeli, H., Macnaughton, J., & McLusky, S. (2021). Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs. Maturitas: An international journal of midlife health and beyond, 150, 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.05.007

Governments, employers, and trade unions are increasingly developing “menopause at work” policies for female staff. Many of the world’s most marginalised women work, however, in more informal or insecure jobs, beyond the scope of such employment prot... Read More about Menopausal symptoms and work: A narrative review of women's experiences in casual, informal, or precarious jobs.

‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness (2021)
Journal Article
Malpass, A., Mcguire, C., & Macnaughton, J. (2022). ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness. Medical Humanities, 48(1), 63-75. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011816

Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable dif... Read More about ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness.

‘To more than I can be’: A phenomenological meta-ethnography of singing groups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2020)
Journal Article
Yoeli, H., & Macnaughton, J. (2021). ‘To more than I can be’: A phenomenological meta-ethnography of singing groups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 25(5), 574-595. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459320978520

Anecdotal experience and qualitative accounts suggest that singing groups, classes or choirs specifically for people with COPD (henceforth referred to as COPD-SGs) are effective in improving health. However, this is not reflected in the quantitative... Read More about ‘To more than I can be’: A phenomenological meta-ethnography of singing groups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement (2020)
Journal Article
Yoeli, H., Robson, M., McLusky, S., & Macnaughton, J. (2020). Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement. Nordic Journal of Arts, Culture and Health, 2(02), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2535-7913-2020-02-02

Purpose: For years, the Arts and Health (AaH) movement has been guided by values of art for art’s sake, practitioner as Artist and artist as Outsider. These values are instrumental to the effectiveness of AaH as a relational and process-driven tool f... Read More about Arts as Treatment? Innovation and resistance within an emerging movement.

Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development (2020)
Journal Article
Harrison, S., Bierski, K., Burn, N., Mclusky, S., McFaull, V., Russell, A., …Macnaughton, J. (2020). Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 7(1), Article e000696. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000696

Objectives: A transdisciplinary research approach was used to develop a holistic understanding of the physical and psychosocial benefits of dance as an intervention for people living with chronic breathlessness. Methods: The dance programme was devel... Read More about Dance for people with chronic breathlessness: a transdisciplinary approach to intervention development.

The Color of Breath (2020)
Journal Article
McGuire, C., Macnaughton, J., & Carel, H. (2020). The Color of Breath. Literature and Medicine, 38(2), 233-238. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2020.0015

Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities (2020)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, J. (2020). Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities. Body & Society, 26(2), 30-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x20902526

Breath is invisible and yet ever present and vital for living beings. The concept of invisibility in relation to breath operates in concrete and metaphorical ways to extend ideas about breath and breathlessness across disciplines, in clinical spaces... Read More about Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities.

Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: an interdisciplinary response (2019)
Journal Article
Malpass, A., Dodd, J., Feder, G., Macnaughton, J., Rose, A., Walker, O., …Carel, H. (2019). Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: an interdisciplinary response. Medical Humanities, 45(3), 294-303. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2018-011631

Health research is often bounded by disciplinary expertise. While cross-disciplinary collaborations are often forged, the analysis of data which draws on more than one discipline at the same time is underexplored. Life of Breath, a 5-year project fun... Read More about Disrupted breath, songlines of breathlessness: an interdisciplinary response.

The meaning of the name of ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease (2019)
Journal Article
Oxley, R., Harrison, S. L., Rose, A., & Macnaughton, J. (2019). The meaning of the name of ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease. Chronic Respiratory Disease, 16, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/1479973119847659

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is recommended for all individuals living with a lung condition and chronic breathlessness. This article considers how adopting an interdisciplinary, medical humanities approach to the term ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ mig... Read More about The meaning of the name of ‘pulmonary rehabilitation’ and its influence on engagement with individuals with chronic lung disease.

The past, present, and future of medical humanities (2017)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, J. (2017). The past, present, and future of medical humanities. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 8(2), 234-239. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-017-0050-6

Cynicism as a strategic virtue (2017)
Journal Article
Rose, A., Duschinsky, R., & Macnaughton, J. (2017). Cynicism as a strategic virtue. The Lancet, 389(10070), 692-693. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2817%2930349-5

Doctors are often forced to negotiate between imperatives of policy and the demands of good practice. Cynicism arises in the welter of difficult feelings elicited by such contexts, and is widely assumed to be bad for patients, national health systems... Read More about Cynicism as a strategic virtue.

Inspiring change: humanities and social science insights into the experience and management of breathlessness (2016)
Journal Article
Oxley, R., & Macnaughton, J. (2016). Inspiring change: humanities and social science insights into the experience and management of breathlessness. Current Opinion in Supportive and Palliative Care, 10(3), 256-261. https://doi.org/10.1097/spc.0000000000000221

Purpose of review: Breathlessness can be debilitating for those with chronic conditions, requiring continual management. Yet, the meaning of breathlessness for those who live with it is poorly understood in respect of its subjective, cultural, and ex... Read More about Inspiring change: humanities and social science insights into the experience and management of breathlessness.

The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities. (2016)
Book
Whitehead, A., Woods, A., Atkinson, S., Macnaughton, J., & Richards, J. (Eds.). (2016). The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities. Edinburgh University Press

‘Breathing and breathlessness in clinic and culture: using critical medical humanities to bridge an epistemic gap’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Macnaughton, J., & Carel, H. (2016). ‘Breathing and breathlessness in clinic and culture: using critical medical humanities to bridge an epistemic gap’. In A. Whitehead, A. Woods, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, & J. Richards (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities (294-309). Edinburgh University Press

The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine (2015)
Book
Saunders, C., Macnaughton, J., & Fuller, D. (Eds.). (2015). The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.

‘Elegant’ Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise (2015)
Book Chapter
Macnaughton, J. (2015). ‘Elegant’ Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise. In C. Saunders, J. Macnaughton, & D. Fuller (Eds.), The recovery of beauty : arts, culture, medicine (175-198). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741_10

Reflecting on his life as a neurosurgeon, Henry Marsh describes the experience that set him out on his career: observing an operation on an aneurysm in the brain. ‘The operation was elegant, dangerous and full of profound meaning. What could be finer... Read More about ‘Elegant’ Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise.

Becoming (2013)
Book Chapter
Macnaughton, J. (2013). Becoming. In J. Gordon, J. Macnaughton, & C. Rudebeck (Eds.), Medical Humanities Companion: Prognosis (53-56). Radcliffe Publishing

Medical Humanities Companion: Prognosis. (2013)
Book
Gordon, J., Macnaughton, J., & Rudebeck, C. (Eds.). (2013). Medical Humanities Companion: Prognosis. Radcliffe Publishing

Is a qualitative perspective missing from COPD guidelines? (2013)
Journal Article
Wainwright, M., & Macnaughton, J. (2013). Is a qualitative perspective missing from COPD guidelines?. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 1(6), 441-442. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2213-2600%2813%2970171-1