We’re hiring!
The Polyphony is seeking a Reviews Editor to join our dynamic editorial team. Applications close 10 November 2023.
The Polyphony Meets NNMHR
The Polyphony team is excited to attend the 2023 NNMHR Congress, hosted online by Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities and the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research. Our editors will interact with panels
New Editors
To kick off 2023, The Polyphony is pleased to welcome three new associate editors to our team: Alexander Henry, Jordan McCullough, and Eva Surawy Stepney. Alex will join the Reviews team and Jordan and
We’re Hiring!
The Polyphony is seeking two Associate Editors to join our team, including one general editor and one book reviews editor. The Associate Editors will be responsible for pro-actively sourcing content for the site, liaising
Learning How to Listen in Clinical Encounters
Susan Notess writes: There’s an American sitcom called Superstore, featuring the staff of a fictional big box store in St Louis, Missouri. One of the main characters, Jonah Simms, is a brilliantly portrayed satirisation
We’re Hiring! Join our team of Associate Editors
We’re hiring! We’re looking for three new part-time Associate Editors to join our team. Closing date 14 October 2021
Using stories to break the cycle of stigma and silence
Tim Shakespeare considers how sharing stories might help to break the silence around taboo health concerns. We’ve been conditioned by societal norms to keep certain topics – often involving our health and wellbeing –
Review of Jasper Gibson’s “The Octopus Man”
Robyn Thomas reviews Jasper Gibson’s The Octopus Man We are all by now familiar with the three act structure: man is healthy, man becomes mentally ill, man recovers and lives stably ever after. While such
Medical humanities as a place for feminist and queer resistance, emancipation and joy
Rebecca Rosenberg and Benjamin Dalton report on the “Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities Seminar Series, 2020-21” How does contemporary women’s writing—in all of its diverse forms across fiction, poetry, non-fiction, (auto)biography, philosophy,
Narrative medicine and the arts: Four perspectives on a student workshop (Essay 4)
This mini-series of short essays by Jane Hibberd, Andy Hibberd, Winifred Lee and Emily Player offers four perspectives on an innovative example of embedding medical humanities within the undergraduate curriculum for medical students at