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
Felicity Callard writes: 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 -
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 -
Visual Culture in Medical Humanities Workshop
Fiona Johnstone – ISSF Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow and New Generations Programme member reports on the Visual Culture in Medical Humanities workshop: Recent developments suggest that it might be possible -
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 – are emerging fields. From my
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Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions (Review)
In this post, Margarita Saona reviews Fear in the Medical and Literary Imagination, Medieval to Modern: Dreadful Passions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), edited by Daniel McCann -
Call For Reviewers For The Polyphony
We are delighted to continue promoting a broad range of reviews at The Polyphony. The Polyphony aims to showcase reviews of books, exhibitions and events -
I’m a Phoenix, Bitch
Bryony Kimmings is talking to her critical inner voice. ‘Haven’t we seen enough theatre shows about metal mothers?’ it says with a leer. It’s a -
Straight Cancer in a Queer Body
Kimiko Tobimatsu shares her experience navigating breast cancer as a young, queer, mixed-race woman, explored in her forthcoming graphic memoir Kimiko Does Cancer. This article -
Games for Wellbeing: Empathy for the Blocks in Thomas Was Alone (2012)
Guest author Agata Waszkiewicz explores the necessity of empathy in gaming to educate about mental illness with the example of indie creation Thomas Was Alone