Let’s Fight! Illness Metaphors and Their Many Uses
Anita Wohlmann considers how authors of illness narratives have consciously reworked the “fight” metaphor.
Introducing Medical Humanities in Secondary Schools
Tanya Sheehan draws on her experience of teaching “Medicine and Society” to adolescents in a US summer school in 2021 to explore the value and implications of introducing critical medical humanities into secondary schools.
Exhibiting Anatomy: a curators’ roundtable
A roundtable discussion on the ethical, legal and aesthetic challenges of exhibiting anatomical materials, with curators Katie Birkwood (Royal College of Physicians), Nathan Flis (Yale Center for British Art) and Annette Wickham (Royal Academy of Arts), moderated by Keren Hammerschlag.
From Nobleness to Ugliness in Literary Illness Stories
Linda Nesby explores the emergence of the “ugly pathography” in contemporary Scandinavian illness narratives. Part of the SELMA Medical Humanities Seminar Series “Narratives of Illness”.
Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium
Rebecca Blake discusses ‘Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium’ at the Centre for Art History and Theory, School of Art and Design at the Australian National University, 22 July 2021.
‘Performance, Medicine and the Human’: Book Review
Maria Patsou reviews Performance, Medicine and the Human (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2020) by Alex Mermikides.
SELMA Medical Humanities: “Narratives of Illness” and “Indigenous Narratives of Health”
Marta-Laura Cenedese and Avril Tynan, convenors of the SELMA Medical Humanities Seminar Series at the University of Turku, Finland, reflect on the first season of the series, “Narratives of Illness”, and look ahead to a second season on “Indigenous Narratives of Healthcare”.
Violence against health workers
Violence against health workers is a global problem, writes Margret Jaeger, a medical anthropologist researching violent incidents in an Austrian hospital.
This paper was presented at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress 2021.
Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities
Benjamin Dalton and Rebecca Rosenberg give an overview of the programme for the forthcoming conference ‘Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities’, 29-31 July 2021.
The End of Care: Notes on ‘Assisted Suicide’ in Noëlle Châtelet’s La dernière leçon
Adina Stroia explores care as durational practice in Noëlle Châtelet’s writings on her mother’s decision to end her own life. Part of the series ‘Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities’, guest edited for The Polyphony by Rebecca Rosenberg and Benjamin Dalton.