Lunar Chronicles: Belief and Bodies in Pain
In this highly personal piece Deepsikha Dasgupta recounts the intersection between lunar phases and the arthritic pain experienced by women in her family.
Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
At the Horse Hospital: Coughing at Holborn’s Colonnade
The seventh of our Waiting Times takeover series is a collaborative review of Martin O’Brien’s performance and lecture at the Horse Hospital in London. Ed Garland focusses on sonic experience while Amy Grandvoinet takes
What Are You Waiting For? Our living archive of waiting
In the sixth post of the Waiting Times takeover, Michael Flexer reflects on the process of enacting publicly engaged research and how a ‘living archive’ came into being. “The time on dialysis is dead
Gender Care and Untimeliness: Reflections on the Gender Identity Development Service
In the fifth post of the Waiting Times takeover, Jordan Osserman draws our attention to the ‘untimely’ nature of youth gender care. Many people have heard many things about this place. Few ever name
‘Chiasmic time’: Being-in-time in Time Being
In the fourth post of our Waiting Times series, Laura Salisbury and Lisa Baraitser reflect on Ruairí Corr and Deborah Robinson’s short film: Time Being. Time Being – a film commissioned by Waiting Times
Frequent Attenders: care and repetition in general practice
In the third post of our Waiting Times takeover series, Stephanie Davies and Martin Moore invite us to consider the figure of the ‘frequent attender’. In the face of repetition and chronicity, can care
The “Meanwhiles” of Post-War Cultures of Care
In the second of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha reflects on the temporality of the ‘meanwhile’ and how it operates in post-war spaces of care In the animated comedy television series SpongeBob SquarePants,
Introduction to the Waiting Times Project: Key Findings
In the first of our Waiting Times takeover, Lisa Baraitser and Laura Salisbury introduce us to the project: its context, questions, ambitions, and findings. We started working on the Waiting Times project in 2015,
Psychoanalysis on the Margins: The Forgotten Legacy of Free Clinics
Ana Tomcic and Ana Minozzo draw our attention to an obscured aspect in the history and present of psychoanalysis: the setting up and running of free clinics. Psychoanalysis is often imagined to be an