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Welcome to The Polyphony
It is no longer true to say that the medical and health humanities – here invoked in connection rather than in tension or competition – -
Languages of Care in Narrative Medicine (Review)
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, -
Fact, Fiction and Phenomenology
Novelist Hilda Reilly discusses biographical fiction as a research method into the patient experience — and the unexpected questions raised in her exploration of Bertha -
Our Resistance to Recovery Narratives
This week we will be posting a series of responses to Angela Woods‘, Akiko Hart‘s and Helen Spandler‘s article The Recovery Narrative: Politics and Possibilities -
Gartnavel Royal: An Asylum and an Inspiration
Writer Gillean McDougall reflects on Gartnavel Royal Hospital, NHS archives and family history. The old Gartnavel Royal Asylum, a well-known landmark in the West of
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‘Psychiatric Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology’: Book Review
Dr Tineke Broer reviews Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett, and Jamie Lewis’ Psychiatric Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology (Routledge, 2019). Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett, and Jamie -
Psychtech 2019: Mental Health and Digital Technology – A Conference Report
Beata Gubacsi reflects on Psychtech 2019: Mental Health and Digital Technology conference Previous posts on Medical Humanities 2.0 have addressed the increasing interest in gaming -
The Greatest Hits of 2019
The Polyphony looks back over 2019’s most popular and provocative posts. -
Sleeping it off: Sleep, Medicine, and Mental Health in Premodern England
'What can we gain by turning to the ways in which people thought about, and performed, sleep in the past?': Megan Leitch, Senior Lecturer in -
J. G. Ballard’s Spinal Landscape
'A clinical picture of a neurological revolt against middle-class conformity': Aidan Tynan, senior lecturer in English literature at Cardiff University, dissects J.G. Ballard's novel and
