Genevieve Smart, Nora Heidorn, Maria Morata Marco, Katharina Wiedlack, and Sofie Leyton reflect on the ‘Experimental Pedagogies for Health and Care’ workshop, exploring new directions for teaching and knowledge sharing in the Medical Humanities.
Sruthi Madhu explores how structures of exclusion are built into India’s increasingly digitised health care system.
Mark Shtanov invites readers of The Polyphony to the exhibition Respectful Disposal, taking place at Saan1 Gallery in Manchester on 25–26 July.
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi reflects on a day of interdisciplinary dialogue at Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities, 27 March 2026
Louis Kennedy reflects on working at a public trauma hospital in Johannesburg, unpicking how it operates as a ‘sociostructural space of pain’.
Upendra Bhojani extends beyond public health and draws the historical, colonial, and social dimensions of tobacco use in India.
Lydia Chung illuminates the structural ableism in disaster response design.
Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the ‘Metaphor Map’- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience.
Marie Cuvelier explores how the temporal logics of hospitalisation are subtly resisted in Gareth Greenwell’s 2025 novel Small Rain.
Bradford Stucki explores how the social construction of academic culture contributes to mental distress amongst University students and staff, and how the same processes can be directed towards care.
