Critical Mental Health and the Allure of Orientalism

Akiko Hart, Tehseen Noorani and Mary Sadid point to orientalism in critical mental health discourses and practices, and invite contributions that help us trace, resist and overturn these problematic tendencies

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What We Say About AIDS

This World AIDS Day, Paul Attinello explores perspectives on how we think and talk about HIV/AIDS, and his own thinking over the last four decades. 1 December has been World

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In the Zine House: The Kitchen

We explore zines that centre food in Part Four of Lea Cooper’s six-part series about the study of zines in the medical humanities. Most good zine titles involve a pun.

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HIV/AIDS since the 1980s Conference

Co-organisers Nikolaos Papadogiannis and Rachel Love report back on the August 2022 conference on transnational and comparative histories of HIV/AIDS. The ‘Reactions to HIV/AIDS since the 1980s: Transnational and comparative

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A painting of a snake charmer in a room of men watching

Critical Mental Health and the Allure of Orientalism

Expressionist image of a male torso.

What We Say About AIDS

A collage image of a kitchen showing a large window with flowing white curtains, shelves covered in crockery, a table with cooking bowls and a pan on it, and various cutout images of plates of food.

In the Zine House: The Kitchen

Pink triangle with pills inside against black background. Green text says "Silence = AIDS".

HIV/AIDS since the 1980s Conference

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'Aging and Loss: Mourning and Maturity in Contemporary Japan' reviewed by Chisaki Fukushima
'The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920' reviewed by Dr Anne Hanley
Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions (Review)
Resurrecting the Present
‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care, 1800-1948’: Workshop Review
Fragments and Silences: Rethinking Narrative in End-of-Life Care
AboutFace: emotions, history and transplantation
Remembering From-The-Outside: Personal Memory and The Perspectival Mind (Review)
Mirror Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self Love - reviewed by Dr Julie Walsh
Does a Face Have Ears?
'The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine' reviewed by Dr Katherine Aske
Channeling Uncertainty: On the 2022 OCD in Society Conference