Book Review: The Forum by Lucy Newlyn
Neil Vickers discusses poet and academic Lucy Newlyn’s debut novel The Forum.
From Pandemic Stress to Nature Connection
A quiet practice of attention, belonging, and rest in urban parks from Yewande Okuleye.
Book Review: Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World
Arpan K Banerjee reviews Oliver Basciano’s Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World, exploring the modern history of leprosy through archives, literature, and personal narratives.
Am I queer enough? When theory and lived experience collide
David Woodhead reflects on being gay and getting older.
Seeing Differently: Colour Blindness, Cinema, and the Politics of Perception
Anand Padmasenan critically examines the relationship between colour deficiency, cinema, and disability through his documentary film The Color of Colours.
You and me, I and I: the queerness of intergenerational storytelling
Becky Higgins reflects on her position as an autoethnographic researcher working collaboratively on the topics of memory and illness, exploring the queerness of storytelling as method.
Beyond Words: Creating Queer Knowledge Through Arts-Based Methods
Sanjana Kumar uses her experience of the 2025 Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities PhD School as a lens through which to re-examine her own research practices as a psychodrama therapist and arts-based researcher in Kerala, India.
Getting to the Heart of Interdisciplinarity
Charlotte Lock reflects on the role of interdisciplinarity in her research on approaches to knowing, visualising and experiencing the heart. This article is part of a collection of posts from attendees at the 2024 Medical Humanities International Summer School for PhD researchers in Vadstena, Sweden, coordinated by the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Linköping University, in collaboration with the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.
Cultural Competence in Healthcare: A Global Necessity
MedHums 101: Hajara Yakubu Jibril explains why cultural competence is essential to effective patient care, drawing on her experiences in healthcare systems in Nigeria and India.