Digital media have today an enormous diffusion, and their influence on the behavior of a
vast part of the human population can hardly be underestimated. In this review I propose that …

Bloodletting—the practice of letting blood out to cure a patient—was for centuries one of the
main therapies in the west. We lay out three potential explanations for bloodletting's cultural …

Background Since the time of Web 2.0, more and more consumers have used online doctor
reviews to rate their doctors or to look for a doctor. This phenomenon has received health …

Background Traditional health information has been based on facts and figures and not on
patient experience (PEx). Websites featuring people's accounts of their experiences of …

I present a detailed ethnographic study of magic and divination of the Nuosu people in
southwest China and offer a cognitive account of the surprising prevalence of these …

As people increasingly turn to social media to access and create health evidence, the
greater availability of data and information ought to help more people make evidence …

(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically and rapidly changed the overall
picture of healthcare in the way how doctors care for their patients. Due to the significant …

Why did people across the world and throughout history believe that dreams can foretell
what will occur in the future? In this paper, I attempt to answer this question within a cultural …

This paper argues that there exists a collective epistemic state of 'Broad Medical
Uncertainty'(BMU) regarding the effectiveness of many medical interventions. We outline the …

Objectives People often hold unduly positive expectations about the outcomes of medicines
and other healthcare products. Here the following explanation is tested: people who have a …