What I know stays outside
Written in memory of her father, WAN Huan’s personal reflection explores her sudden loss to reveal how clinical knowledge breaks down within rigid hospital hierarchies, and why medicine requires humanistic empathy when silence, shock,
Queer methods of presence, proximity, and pressure
Susie Russell examines her experience of embodiment, relationality, and interdependence at the 2025 PhD School: Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities.
Book Review: Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach
Margarita Saona reviews Mary Roach's "Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy," where science, cyborgs, and animals come together as we think about the human body.
Beyond Collaboration: The Quiet Rivalries of Medicine
Amr Ihab reflects on their experience of medical training and how cultures of competition and rivalries among medical professionals can be challenged through the medical humanities.
Beyond Climate Data: The Role of Climate Affects in Politicising Climate Change
Benoit Dillet and Sophia Hatzisavvidou examine the role that climate data plays in overlooking and depoliticising lived experiences of climate anxiety.
Consuming Diabetes: Advertising and Twentieth-Century Patient Organisations
Andrew Burchell examines what advertisements in patient organisation magazines reveal about medical consumerism and the globalisation of diabetes care.
Narrating ‘Inherited’ Trauma: Reflections on World Literature and Epigenetics
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi reflects on a day of interdisciplinary dialogue at Durham's Institute for Medical Humanities, 27 March 2026
The Architecture of Suffering: Notes from a Johannesburg Trauma Ward
Louis Kennedy reflects on working at a public trauma hospital in Johannesburg, unpicking how it operates as a 'sociostructural space of pain'.
Co-Production and Physical Activity: Reflections from Research, Practice, and Lived Experience
Crystal Voyle, Michelle Pullen, and Kate Marks reflect on the key points raised at the Co-Production and Physical Activity event held at Durham University in March 2026.