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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A Dry and Silent World: Part 2, ‘Pretty experiments in the laboratory’.
In this four-part series, four researchers – an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Registrar, a Dentist, an Artist and a Professor – reflect on their -
A Dry and Silent World: Part 1, ‘A little like stepping off a precipice’.
In this four-part series, four researchers – an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Registrar, a Dentist, an Artist and a Professor – reflect on their -
Polyphoney? One creative practitioner’s precarious privilege in the medical humanities
I started this piece of writing months ago. I had just handed in a different blog to London Arts in Health Forum, when I was -
‘Researching Trauma in the Arts and Humanities’: Workshop Review
How do we manage our emotional responses when researching traumatic material? Anna Kemball reviews the Researching Trauma in the Arts & Humanities one-day workshop held at -
Artists’ Books and Multisensory Experience: Reflections on Teaching a Visual Medical Humanities
Stella Bolaki explores the benefits of using artists’ books in medical humanities education, and argues that the affective and sensory properties of the form allow it to