In the Zine House: The Kitchen
We explore zines that centre food in part four of Lea Cooper’s series about the study of zines in the medical humanities.
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 history perspectives’ conference, which
Two Diabetes Cases in 1920s China
Xiao-Yang Gu explores the tension between two different diagnosis methods of diabetes in 1920s China and the consequent changes in the power dynamics in the clinical context.
Studying Persuasion in Health and Medical Contexts
Hillary A. Ash explains the importance of the study of rhetoric in the medical humanities as part of our ‘MedHums 101’ series.
Narrative Medicine & Hospice Doulas in China
Nicole Xuan Chen and Xiao-lin Yang explore the importance of narrative medicine and hospice doula care for experiences of death and dying.
In the Zine House: The Bathroom
In Part Three of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we move from the living room to the bathroom, containing zines around (Self-)Care.
‘Revenge of the Real’: A Review
Des Fitzgerald reviews Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World by Benjamin Bratton (Verso, 2022). Since mid-2020, a small library’s worth of books on the Covid pandemic has appeared. We have had
In the Zine House: The Living Room
In part two of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we encounter zines about trauma and memory in the living room.
Illness Narratives in a Fourth-Century Chinese Correspondence
Antje Richter explores the illness narratives in the informal correspondences of Wang Xizhi, the most celebrated of Chinese calligraphers. This essay is adapted from her journal article "The Trouble with Wang Xizhi, Illness and Healing in a Fourth-Century Chinese Correspondence", co-written with Charles Chace and originally published in T'oung Pao.