The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research will host their 4th Annual Congress online from 21–23 April 2021. The Polyphony has been delighted to publish interviews with all four keynote speakers in the build-up to the Congress. In this final week before Congress, Congress organiser Ruben Verwaal talks to Felicity Callard, Professor of Human Geography at Glasgow University.
Ewan Bowlby considers what spiritual care might look like in the context of contemporary secular healthcare institutions.
Jaipreet Virdi is a historian of medicine, technology, and disability. Her book ‘Hearing Happiness (2020) combines her personal story with academic research, raising pivotal questions about deafness in American society. The Polyphony interviewed Virdi in advance of her keynote at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities 4th Annual Congress in April 2021.
The Polyphony interviews Julie (“Jules”) Netherland, a leading expert in the critical study of drugs, medicine, science and addiction, and a keynote speaker at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities 4th Annual Congress in April 2021.
Professor Bettina Bildhauer’s research addresses the limits of ‘the human’ by focusing on blood, materiality, monsters, and menstruation in the Global Middle Ages. The Polyphony interviewed Bildhauer in advance of her keynote at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities 4th Annual Congress in April 2021.
Joshua Shaw reviews Entangled Bodies: Art, Identity and Intercorporeality, ed. Tammer El-Sheikh (Malaga: Vernon Press, 2020).
Daniel Martini gives an insight into the undergraduate Medical Humanities programme at UC Santa Barbara.
Gillian Shirreffs writes: In early November 2020, Jane Hartshorn and I hosted a workshop as part of the Thinking Through Things: Object Encounters in the Medical Humanities project.
Jane Hartshorn writes: In November 2020, I facilitated a creative writing workshop as part of Thinking Through Things: Object Encounters in the Medical Humanities.
Artist Lucy Sabin reflects on making art about breath in 2020. Breathworks began as a participatory arts project on social media, expanding to become an exhibit and events programme supported by Art Fund and
