For Baby Loss Awareness Week 2026, Fiona Johnstone, Sofie Layton, Estelle Verdi, Mary Robson and Sumayya Mulla write about a growing programme of collaborative research using creative practice to challenge silence, deepen understanding and transform support around reproductive loss and maternal bereavement.
Rena Alcalay explores the concept of ‘bodily doubt’ and how living with a chronic illness destabilises our assumptions about quantifiable data.
We are delighted to announce that the new Editor in Chief of The Polyphony is Jordan McCullough.
The research team behind the Contragestive Time project explore how alternative forms of fertility control can reshape how we think about contraception and abortion.
Sam Bennett explores how AI generated medical data is being used to fill data gaps for marginalised groups and uses queer theory to unpack the problems with using AI generated data.
Jesper Vaczy Kragh considers the history of “psychopathy” in child psychiatry, and asks what the contemporary discipline and the humanities might learn from the disappearance of this diagnosis.
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How can we conceptualize care, resilience, and regional pride in communities where the needs of residents conflict with the physical landscape? In his review of Glasgoscopy, a poetry collection by Glasgow-based OT Vicki Husband, Craig Lamont examines the potential of poetic language to illuminate Husband’s experience of the city and its people.
This essay collection refuses to ‘reduce neurodiversity to a pathologised object of clinical study or passive trope in literature’, say Betsy Selvam and Helen Edgar.
How do we square real-time health data with our own bodily experiences? Claire Zhu considers the relationship- or disjuncture- between wearable health devices and somatic embodiment.
