Laura Donald discusses the heart and the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 3rd Congress, Sheffield, 23rd-24th January 2020 The recent Wellcome Trust-funded two-day congress in Sheffield packed in three keynotes and a massive sixteen panels, but I’m following my […]
Working across the humanities-science divide: Raphael Lyne and Jon Simons on an interdisciplinary approach to remembering Raphael Lyne, Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English at Cambridge, has been working with Jon Simons (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience […]
Dr Emily Cock discusses nose transplantation and Interregnum politics I have recently published my first monograph, all about Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture. Exciting! But, according to some people, a strange topic. Why […]
Veronica Heney proposes a new methodology for understanding narratives of self-harm The assumption that self-harm is unnatural, that it is inevitably incomprehensible to the ‘normal’ person, permeates the clinical, sociological, and even fictional literature around self-harm. Sarah Naomi Shaw’s review […]
Sarah Markham discusses harm caused by disproportionate risk aversion in mental health settings, and how this might be remedied In secure and forensic psychiatric settings, a tension is perceived to exist between the promotion of responsibility and autonomy on one […]
