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Mapping the Medical Legacies of British Colonialism

Reflecting on her recent fellowship at Art HX, researcher Shelley Angelie Saggar traces how objects and photographs recall the medical legacies of British colonialism, as well as her own family history.

Nature’s Medicine: Could Green Prescribing Shape the Future of our Health?

Shauna Walker contextualises the UK government's recent investment in 'green social prescribing.'

From Menstruation to the Menopause: Book Review

Jemma Walton reviews From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French, by Maria Kathryn Tomlinson (Liverpool University Press, 2021).

Sensitive Subjects Pt. 2: Creative Practice and Ethics in Times of Loss

Olivia Turner reflects on the Sensitive Subjects: Creative Practice and Ethics workshop she organised at Newcastle University, turning to issues around bereavement and grief.

Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of Madness Book Review

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Lunar Chronicles: Belief and Bodies in Pain

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Sensitive Subjects Pt. 1: Consent in Creative Practice Research

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Seen and Unseen in Translational Medical Humanities

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Seen and Unseen in Translational Medical Humanities

Brian Hurwitz and Magdalena Szpilman reflect on the seen and unseen dimensions of translation in the medical medical humanities. While Hurwitz examines the power of pretence in Classical medicine, Szpilman highlights the potency of the physician's visual scream in 1980s Poland and today.

Mapping the Medical Legacies of British Colonialism

Nature’s Medicine: Could Green Prescribing Shape the Future of our Health?

From Menstruation to the Menopause: Book Review

Sensitive Subjects Pt. 2: Creative Practice and Ethics in Times of Loss

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