Reading Closely: Bodies and Environments

Anna Ovaska and Kaisa Kortekallio examine the ways close reading can be used as a method for approaching vulnerable bodies and environments.

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Creating A Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part Two)

The Lady Bears, fat activists, educators and artists JDP and Sookie Bardwell, continues their practical guide to creating a 'a fat medical utopia'. The second part focuses on medical education

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Creating a Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part One)

The Lady Bears, fat activists, educators and artists JDP and Sookie Bardwell, introduce five requirements to create 'a fat medical utopia'. In this first part, they explore what patient centered

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‘Hmmm… first thing, let’s get you on a diet’ – A Comic

As a mid-week treat, Barry Deutsch lightens the mood, and prepares us for the series' closing pieces on "Creating a Big Fat Medical Utopia". The comic illustrates the absurdity of

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Reading Closely: Bodies and Environments

Creating A Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part Two)

Creating a Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part One)

‘Hmmm… first thing, let’s get you on a diet’ – A Comic

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Four Meditations on Happiness – reviewed by Rob Boddice
Critical Medical Humanities Symposium - Review by Avishek Parui
A hand on the arm: Gesture, neurodiversity and performance
The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity - reviewed by Dr Katherine Harvey
Designing the Future – Virtual Reality, Robotics and Gaming in Healthcare
“I plunge headlong into disaster”: Unstitching Agnes Richter’s Jacket
U;REDD (FEARLESS) – exhibiting anxiety through multiple narratives
Our Resistance to Recovery Narratives
‘Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery’ reviewed by Laura Neff
HIV/AIDS Ecclesiology and Ruptures of the Body
Covid-19 knowledge and the 'bad expert'
Collaboration and Competition: Medical Practitioners in Colonial South India