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Manifesto for a Multilingual Medical Humanities

Steven Wilson reflects on the importance of linguistic sensitivity in the medical humanities. The last ten years have witnessed extensive reflection and debate on the central preoccupations and methods of

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Practice Research: Gothic Fiction for Postpartum Psychosis

Georgia Poplett discusses her PhD research methodology, developing original novel-writing as academic discourse in order to expand cultural dialogue around postpartum psychosis. In 1913, reflecting on The Yellow Wallpaper, American

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Embodied Narratives: Bioinformation and Self-Creation

Jamie Webb reviews the launch of Emily Postan’s new book Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation (2022). What rights should donor conceived individuals have regarding genetic

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Invisibility and Change: Psychiatric History in Uganda

Alma Ionescu details patterns of invisibility within the histories of psychiatry and mental health in Uganda Credit: Ye Jinghan (Unsplash) History has always been necessary to make sense of the

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Manifesto for a Multilingual Medical Humanities

30 May 202316 May 2023
A collage of Victorian images showing a worried mother figure and a ghostly child with the cut-out text 'Caution to Parents' and '"This is the way we wash our hands."' from a Pears' Soap ad.

Practice Research: Gothic Fiction for Postpartum Psychosis

26 May 2023
Emily Postan's 2022 book propped up on a banister

Embodied Narratives: Bioinformation and Self-Creation

22 May 202322 May 2023
Shadow of human behind bars

Invisibility and Change: Psychiatric History in Uganda

18 May 202318 May 2023

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Manifesto for a Multilingual Medical Humanities

30 May 202316 May 2023

Steven Wilson reflects on the importance of linguistic sensitivity in the medical humanities. The last ten years have witnessed extensive reflection and debate on the central preoccupations and methods of the medical humanities, testifying

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A collage of Victorian images showing a worried mother figure and a ghostly child with the cut-out text 'Caution to Parents' and '"This is the way we wash our hands."' from a Pears' Soap ad.
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Practice Research: Gothic Fiction for Postpartum Psychosis

26 May 2023

Georgia Poplett discusses her PhD research methodology, developing original novel-writing as academic discourse in order to expand cultural dialogue around postpartum psychosis. In 1913, reflecting on The Yellow Wallpaper, American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Emily Postan's 2022 book propped up on a banister
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Embodied Narratives: Bioinformation and Self-Creation

22 May 202322 May 2023

Jamie Webb reviews the launch of Emily Postan’s new book Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation (2022). What rights should donor conceived individuals have regarding genetic information about their biological

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Shadow of human behind bars
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Invisibility and Change: Psychiatric History in Uganda

18 May 202318 May 2023

Alma Ionescu details patterns of invisibility within the histories of psychiatry and mental health in Uganda History has always been necessary to make sense of the present. This holds particularly true in relation to

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Oral Histories of Mental Healthcare

12 May 202312 May 2023

Verusca Calabria explores oral history as a vital method to research histories of mental healthcare. In recent decades in the UK, interest in oral history as a research method has expanded, both as a

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The Radical Potential of Sickness Stories

11 May 202312 May 2023

In Part 2 of their series exploring chronic illness narratives (see Part 1 on ‘refusal of resolution’ here), Char Heather considers the radical potential of sickness stories to crip and to queer what is

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Writing the Asylum

9 May 202325 April 2023

Gillean McDougall writes about a new collaborative project bringing together writers and artists with the medical archive A largely forgotten archive The former Gartnavel Royal Asylum stands in parkland in Glasgow’s West End, the

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Disability and depathologisation are not metaphors

5 May 20233 May 2023

Professor Dan Goodley reflects on the recent Northern Network of the Medical Humanities Congress and the necessity to embrace disability as a driving subject of inquiry.  I had the pleasure, this week, to attend

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Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Mental Disability

3 May 20231 May 2023

Yoshiko Okuyama explores the emerging genre of comics in Japan, tōjisha manga, and discusses how these comics illuminate and humanise the otherwise “faceless” people’s invisible tribulations caused by mental disability. Manga, or Japanese comics, is

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‘Mom Guilt’: Postpartum Depression and Motherhood

2 May 202327 April 2023

Prerna Tolani and Sathyaraj Venkatesan explore guilt and postpartum depression through the lens of Teresa Wong’s 2019 graphic memoir, Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression.  Postpartum depression (PPD) is a psychiatric condition

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