The Polyphony launched in September 2018 and our catalogue of new content is growing rapidly.
While The Polyphony is developing you can also explore archive posts from our old blog centreformedicalhumanities.org.
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Whistle While You Work (For Nothing): Positive Affect as Coercive Strategy – The Case of Workfare
In this post, Lynne Friedli and Robert Stearn look at the role of psychological coercion, notably through the imposition of positive affect, in UK Government workfare programmes. There has been little -
The DSM5 Debates: Searching for the voices of those living under, through, and beyond psychiatric diagnoses
Next week, on June 4–5, 2013, I will be speaking at the DSM-5 extravaganza taking place at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. There is a 2-day international conference -
Medical Humanities and Literary Medicine
Medical Humanities and Literary Medicine Brandy Schillace, PhD Managing Editor, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry The designation “medical humanities” is a relatively new one. The British Medical Journal began its run -
Towards a Cultural History of Exhaustion
Anna Katharina Schaffner writes: In the age of burn-out, in which even the pope – traditionally a beacon of unwavering faith and indefatigable service until death – has cited both -
Tilery Lanterns 2012 – The night before…
It has been a hectic two days down at Tilery; lanterns have been finished off and papered at quite a rate. There are now some mighty creatures at home in
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Working together, changing care
How to collaborate beyond the academy in research in dementia and culture? Working Together, a workshop organised by Sarah Falcus (University of Huddersfield) and Raquel -
Medicine, Health and Being Human (Review)
In this post, Natalie Riley reviews Medicine, Health and Being Human (London: Routledge, 2018), edited by Lesa Scholl. In defining what it means to -
Meaning-making Methods for Coping with Serious Illness (Review)
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 -
The Polyphony in 2018: Year of the Visual Turn?
In September 2018 The Polyphony introduced itself as a multi-authored, multi-faceted web platform in the service of the medical and health humanities. Four months later, -
Beauty below the Belt
Why is labiaplasty the fastest growing cosmetic procedure in the world? Jennifer Whitney considers the influence of pornographic aesthetics on the cosmetic surgery industry, and