Meet Our New Editors!
Meet this year’s Editor-in-Chief and our three new Associate Editors!
Covid-19 and Public Mourning
Ryan Brown discusses the ways we have – and have not – publicly mourned those who have died from Covid-19
Filtering Noisy Advice during Lockdown
Alix Gallagher shares a 2021 lockdown experience, studying at home while filtering the noise from increasing amounts of advice.
COVID and its Metaphors
Francisca Bartilotti Matos discusses the metaphors we use to describe COVID-19 and the effect these metaphors have.
‘Obstinate Material’: Surgical intervention and Obsessional Thoughts
Eva Surawy Stepney reflects on the use of psychosurgery for the treatment of obsessional thoughts.
Race, Public Health, and Drug Control in the American Philippines
Eva Ward discusses the contradictions and assumptions behind America’s ‘war on drugs’ in the Philippines.
Private Islands in COVID-19
Lottie Hughes reflects on the public, the private – and Kim Kardashian – during the COVID-19 pandemic
‘Look Out for Changes in Behaviour’: Encephalitis Lethargica and COVID-19
Kate McAllister reflects on parallels between COVID-19 and the early twentieth century epidemic of Encephalitis Lethargica.
Casual Sex on Campus: A History
Kristin Hay discusses the moral panic around student populations after increased access to the contraceptive pill
Snow
Laura Grace Simpkins discusses visual disturbances and the metaphors we use to describe them.