Tim Shakespeare considers how sharing stories might help to break the silence around taboo health concerns. We’ve been conditioned by societal norms to keep certain topics – often involving our health and wellbeing –
Linda Nesby explores the emergence of the “ugly pathography” in contemporary Scandinavian illness narratives. Part of the SELMA Medical Humanities Seminar Series “Narratives of Illness”.
Historian Amie Bolissian reflects on the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress’s “Ageing” panel back in the spring of 2021. Throughout written history, European cultures have associated the changing seasons with stages of
Rebecca Blake discusses ‘Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium’ at the Centre for Art History and Theory, School of Art and Design at the Australian National University, 22 July 2021.
Maria Patsou reviews Performance, Medicine and the Human (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2020) by Alex Mermikides.
Andrew Godfrey-Meers reviews Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled Child: Unsettling Distinctions (Routledge, 2021) by Harriet Cooper.
sarah madoka currie reflects on what Kazu Haga’s new book Healing Resistance has to say about healing, about restorative justice, and about the relationship between activism and academia in medical humanities contexts.
Academic neurologist and neuro-oncologist Lara Ronan reflects on Bob Simpson’s essay, ‘Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope’.
Avril Tynan considers how the insights in Aho’s edited collection Existential Medicine can help us think through the disruption to our sense of ‘being-at-home in the world’ caused by the pandemic.
Exploring the connection between institutionalisation and women’s needlework, textile historian Isabella Rosner reflects on a unique nineteenth-century object: a jacket made, stitched upon and worn by seamstress Agnes Richter during her 26-year incarceration at
