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Analysis was conducted in three parts: (1) Prevalent topics were identified using BERTopic, a topic-modelling approach based on transformers well suited to large corpora; (2) Themes were created using a synthesis of machine-derived topics; and (3) Data were visualised through R to identify changes in the themes. Five overarching themes emerged from the analysis: The\n                    <jats:italic>Patient Journeys &amp; Specific Conditions<\/jats:italic>\n                    has grown significantly since 2015, indicating a growing interest in the journal towards articles addressing phenomenology, stigma, disabilities and personal experiences. Meanwhile,\n                    <jats:italic>Narrative &amp; Arts in Health<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>History &amp; Culture of Medicine<\/jats:italic>\n                    have remained foundational while\n                    <jats:italic>Practice &amp; Education<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Mind, Body &amp; Ethics<\/jats:italic>\n                    remain reflective themes. This paper highlights the debate between narrative medicine and narrative humility and the importance of critical and posthumanist perspectives, thereby promoting structural and phenomenological research approaches. The study\u2019s findings may be limited by its use of abstracts only in topic modelling and the sensitivity of machine learning parameters. 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