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
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
Andrea Ford explores the social and humanistic aspects of hormonally-active chemicals in a forthcoming co-edited collection Hormonal Theory: A Cascading Glossary (2024) Form follows function, as the design maxim goes, but function also follows
Arlene Jackson reflects on sexuality, empowerment and discrimination in Samantha Renke’s 2022 memoir ‘You are the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread’. Amongst the many themes in Samantha Renke’s memoir, You Are the Best Thing Since
Eleanor Shaw analyses the role of privilege, gender, racism, and sexism in the making of academic journals in the medical humanities. In the past few years, the critical turn in the medical humanities has
Thinking critically about the role of complaint in patient care, Jelmer Brüggemann, Lisa Guntram and Ann-Charlotte Nedlund explore the ’difficult patient’ as a medical humanities concept. Possibility comes from intimacy with what has thickened
Eleanor Kashouris reports on the 2022 Marginalisation and the Microbe Conference at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. The Marginalisation & the Microbe conference took place in late November 2022 as part of a Wellcome
Joanna Ingham reflects on her experience of ovarian health and using poetry to explore illness, bodies, and grief. MRI Because I am asked so often if I have metal in my body, and I
Editor in Chief Chase Ledin takes a look at The Polyphony activities from 2022 Here at The Polyphony, we have had an incredible publication year in 2022. First, we published a wide range of
