In this post, Kimm Curran reviews Remembering From-The-Outside: Personal Memory and The Perspectival Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), authored by Christopher McCarroll. Remembering From-The-Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind is a
In this post, Margarita Saona reviews Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), edited by Daniel McCann and Claire McKechnie-Mason. Fear in the Medical and
We are delighted to continue promoting a broad range of reviews at The Polyphony. The Polyphony aims to showcase reviews of books, exhibitions and events that fall within the broad remit of the medical
In this post, Botsa Katara reviews The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), authored by Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers.
In this post, Christina Wilkins reviews Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment (London: Routledge, 2018), authored by Christopher Bollas. “We have changed.” (127) This simple sentence, uttered towards the
In this post, Adam Hayden reviews Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), edited by Gregg Caruso and Owen Flanagan. “There is little doubt that modern
In this post, Jane Draycott reviews Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Profile and the Wellcome Collection, 2018), authored by Jack Hartnell. In Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art
In this post, Autumn Marie Chilcote reviews Languages of Care in Narrative Medicine: Words, Space and Time in the Healthcare Ecosystem (New York: Springer International, 2018), authored by Maria Giulia Marini. Narrative Medicine,
In this post, Natalie Riley reviews Medicine, Health and Being Human (London: Routledge, 2018), edited by Lesa Scholl. In defining what it means to be human (in any age), the sciences and the
In this post, Joe Wood reviews Meaning-making Methods for Coping with Serious Illness (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018) by Fereshteh Ahmadi and Nader Ahmadi. In Meaning-making Methods for Coping with Serious Illness, Fereshteh Ahmadi and Nader
