Steven Wilson reflects on the importance of linguistic sensitivity in the medical humanities.

Georgia Poplett discusses her PhD research methodology, developing original novel-writing as academic discourse in order to expand cultural dialogue around postpartum psychosis.

Jamie Webb reviews the launch of Emily Postan’s new book Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation (2022). What rights should donor conceived individuals have regarding genetic information about their biological

Alma Ionescu details patterns of invisibility within the histories of psychiatry and mental health in Uganda History has always been necessary to make sense of the present. This holds particularly true in relation to

Verusca Calabria explores oral history as a vital method to research histories of mental healthcare. In recent decades in the UK, interest in oral history as a research method has expanded, both as a

Char Heather considers the radical potential of sickness stories to crip and to queer what is considered 'credible, coherent, complete, interesting, moving, and morally sound'.

Gillean McDougall writes about a new collaborative project bringing together writers and artists with the medical archive A largely forgotten archive The former Gartnavel Royal Asylum stands in parkland in Glasgow’s West End, the

Professor Dan Goodley reflects on the recent Northern Network of the Medical Humanities Congress and the necessity to embrace disability as a driving subject of inquiry.  I had the pleasure, this week, to attend

Yoshiko Okuyama explores the emerging genre of comics in Japan, tōjisha manga, and discusses how these comics illuminate and humanise the otherwise “faceless” people’s invisible tribulations caused by mental disability. Manga, or Japanese comics, is