Favour Rubyson Kharnaior uses poetry to reflect on the relationship between medicine and spirituality and considers how spiritual approaches to healing can work in harmony with conventional medicine.

Sruthi Madhu explores how structures of exclusion are built into India's increasingly digitised health care system.

Jennifer Wallis reflects on her personal experience of an alcoholic parent and how her expertise as a historian has shaped her understanding of alcoholism.

Maria Teresa Marangoni considers how a universal biomedical paradigm collides with local cultural knowledge and historical memory in debates surrounding Veneto’s vaccine mandates.

Mila Daskalova, Julia Macintosh, Cheryl McGeachan, and Azra Khan organised the Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity Conference. In this piece, they reflect on how the conference unfolded, examining how delving into the history of madness fosters connection, belonging, and continuity for the mad present.

Max Edward Perry reviews Charlotte Blease Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us — and How AI Could Save Lives (Yale University Press, 2025), reflecting on its arguments in the context of today’s debates about technology and healthcare.

Caroline Williamson Sinalo reviews The Clinical Witness: Conflict, Catastrophe and Medical Testimony, engaging with the complex interconnectedness of contemporary crises and the moral ambiguities, responsibilities, and pain that come with bearing witness to them.

Loshini Rajentharan reflects on Miss Marple’s attentiveness to human nature, the concept of epistemic injustice, and the relevance of lived experience and pattern recognition to clinical judgement in the field of psychiatry.

Mark Shtanov invites readers of The Polyphony to the exhibition Respectful Disposal, taking place at Saan1 Gallery in Manchester on 25–26 July.