Embodying Suicidal Emotions in England, 1700-1860

The ‘drooping of despondency’, Ella Sbaraini analyses a variety of source material to explore how the embodied nature of suicidal feelings in the past

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The Perils and Possibilities of Retrospective Diagnosis

Anna Jamieson explores researchers' urge to retrospectively diagnose historical and literary figures, outlining the dangers and possibilities of such diagnostic endeavours. 

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“Nostalgia for the Future”: Projecting a Post-Disability Image through Retro-Futuristic Aesthetics in Viktoria Modesta’s “Prototype”

In her paper, presented at the online Cyberpunk Culture 2020 conference (the recording is available here), Julia Gatermann explores the re-signification of disability via cyberpunk aesthetics and posthumanism in Viktoria

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‘Making Bodies Kosher’: Book Review

Michal Raucher reviews Ben Kasstan's Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England (Berghahn: 2019). In Making Bodies Kosher, Ben Kasstan explores the ways Orthodox Jews in Manchester,

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Embodying Suicidal Emotions in England, 1700-1860

The Perils and Possibilities of Retrospective Diagnosis

“Nostalgia for the Future”: Projecting a Post-Disability Image through Retro-Futuristic Aesthetics in Viktoria Modesta’s “Prototype”

‘Making Bodies Kosher’: Book Review

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Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (Review)
Pilgrimage to/of the heart: exhibition review 'The Heart of the Matter'
Insubordinate Lives: The Invisible Tension of a Second-Language
'Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting the Page': Book Review
Set Menu (His and Hers)
'Madness, Art, and Society: Beyond Illness': Book Review
Collaboration and Competition: Medical Practitioners in Colonial South India
AboutFace: emotions, history and transplantation
Taking a Visual Turn
Muzzles, parrots and lifejackets: the uneasy objectification of the face mask
The Hypodermic Syringe
The Houses of Parliament
Medical Humanities and Mental Health Policy