‘Breast Cancer Inside Out’: Book Review
Gita Ralleigh reviews , Breast Cancer Inside Out: Bodies, Biographies & Beliefs, edited by Kimberly R. Myers (Peter Lang, 2021) In Breast Cancer Inside Out, Kimberly Myers, a medical humanities scholar who
‘ON CARE’: Book Review
Joe Wood reviews ON CARE, edited by Rebecca Jagoe and Sharon Kivland (Ma Bibliothèque, 2020) ‘Send fruit’ is apparently what Chileans say over the phone on international calls. Like asking about the weather, this
Efectos secundarios: Book Review
Katie Salmon reviews Efectos Secundarios: 19 Historietas del COVID (2021), copublished by Astiberri and la Fundación Cultura en Vena. Efectos secundarios (Side Effects) (2021) comprises nineteen graphic narratives from 2020 about the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19’: Book Review
Susie Russell reviews Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19, edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke and Ayo Wahlberg (UCL Press, 2021). There is something eerie about reading Viral Loads
‘Ill Feelings’: Book Review
Peter Endicott reviews Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) I met a patient in my first year as a medical student with symptoms – intolerable pain, inability to be exposed to
Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health
Dieter Declercq reflects on the “semi-formal” spaces of academic podcasts and live webinars which present new possibilities for connection between those working in the medical humanities. We recently concluded the second season of our webinar-podcast