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Through the Kaleidoscope: Creative Writing in Healthcare Education

Roshni Beeharry, a medical educator and Writing for Wellbeing and Personal Development facilitator, reflects on the multitude of ways creative writing practice contributes to a well-rounded healthcare education. In 2013,

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A Gift of Wellbeing from the Autistic Paradigm

How may individuals with sensory acuity and struggling with fear and anxiety be encouraged to participate more in social activities? Dawn-joy Leong reimagines conducive spaces for all, inspired by natural

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Finding Poetry in Gynaecology

Joanna Ingham reflects on her experience of ovarian health and using poetry to explore illness, bodies, and grief. MRI Because I am asked so often if I have metal in

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Poetry, epistemic justice and exploring the potential of connectivity

Reflecting on her four-decade nursing career, Sue Spencer uses poetry to explore justice, values and change. I read an earlier version of this poem at an event I organised that

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Through the Kaleidoscope: Creative Writing in Healthcare Education

27 January 202326 January 2023

A Gift of Wellbeing from the Autistic Paradigm

19 January 202321 January 2023
Cover image of Joanna Ingham's 2022 poetry collection "Ovarium"

Finding Poetry in Gynaecology

17 January 202316 January 2023

Poetry, epistemic justice and exploring the potential of connectivity

9 January 2023

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Through the Kaleidoscope: Creative Writing in Healthcare Education

27 January 202326 January 2023

Roshni Beeharry, a medical educator and Writing for Wellbeing and Personal Development facilitator, reflects on the multitude of ways creative writing practice contributes to a well-rounded healthcare education. In 2013, I formally explored the

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A Gift of Wellbeing from the Autistic Paradigm

19 January 202321 January 2023

How may individuals with sensory acuity and struggling with fear and anxiety be encouraged to participate more in social activities? Dawn-joy Leong reimagines conducive spaces for all, inspired by natural Autistic ways of coping

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Cover image of Joanna Ingham's 2022 poetry collection "Ovarium"
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Finding Poetry in Gynaecology

17 January 202316 January 2023

Joanna Ingham reflects on her experience of ovarian health and using poetry to explore illness, bodies, and grief. MRI Because I am asked so often if I have metal in my body, and I

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Poetry, epistemic justice and exploring the potential of connectivity

9 January 2023

Reflecting on her four-decade nursing career, Sue Spencer uses poetry to explore justice, values and change. I read an earlier version of this poem at an event I organised that “celebrated” 40 years since

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New Editors

6 January 20236 January 2023

To kick off 2023, The Polyphony is pleased to welcome three new associate editors to our team: Alexander Henry, Jordan McCullough, and Eva Surawy Stepney. Alex will join the Reviews team and Jordan and

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In the Zine House: The Hallway and the Balcony

5 January 20234 January 2023

In the final part of Lea Cooper’s six-part series about the study of zines in the medical humanities, we move through the Hallway and out onto the Balcony to consider zines, libraries and research.

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A Year in Review 2022

22 December 202219 December 2022

Editor in Chief Chase Ledin takes a look at The Polyphony activities from 2022 Here at The Polyphony, we have had an incredible publication year in 2022. First, we published a wide range of

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‘Medical Education, Politics & Social Justice’: A Review

19 December 20229 December 2022

Harriet Cooper reviews Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice by Alan Bleakley (Routledge, 2021). Alan Bleakley’s latest book Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice (Routledge, 2021) presents a new vision for what medical education

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Dementia Narratives in Contemporary German-Language Novels

16 December 202216 December 2022

How does literature question dementia as a category of difference? Monika Leipelt-Tsai explores narratives about dementing diseases in contemporary German-Language literary texts and argues that dementia narratives can disrupt the current order of knowledge

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In the Zine House: The Garden

15 December 202216 December 2022

Zines that connect to plants, the environment and nature often distribute knowledges with long histories as well as offering new ways of relating to the future, says Lea Cooper in part five of their

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