Sensitive Subjects Pt. 2: Creative Practice and Ethics in Times of Loss
Olivia Turner reflects on the Sensitive Subjects: Creative Practice and Ethics workshop she organised at Newcastle University, turning to issues around bereavement and grief
Exploring and Enhancing Wellbeing through Therapeutic Photography
Neil Gibson reflects on therapeutic photography and self-esteem as part of a workshop delivered at the June 2023 Scottish Medical Humanities Conference
Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of Madness Book Review
Lorna Collins reviews Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of Madness by Alastair Morgan (Springer, 2022).
Lunar Chronicles: Belief and Bodies in Pain
In this highly personal piece Deepsikha Dasgupta recounts the intersection between lunar phases and the arthritic pain experienced by women in her family.
Sensitive Subjects Pt. 1: Consent in Creative Practice Research
In the first of three articles for The Polyphony, Olivia Turner reflects on ethics in creative practice research in the critical medical humanities, following a workshop she organised at Newcastle University. She begins with the issue of consent.
Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
Hematopolitics: Blood, Space and Time
Thomas Wadsworth reports on the Hematopolitics Symposium held at the University of Leeds in May 2022
Material Translation and Exclusion: Barad’s Entanglement and Post-Pandemic Medical Humanities
Monika Class reflects on some of the theoretical underpinnings of a post-pandemic, translational medical humanities and suggests that the concept of “material translation” might offer a productive way forward.
Seen and Unseen in Translational Medical Humanities
Brian Hurwitz and Magdalena Szpilman reflect on the seen and unseen dimensions of translation in the medical medical humanities. While Hurwitz examines the power of pretence in Classical medicine, Szpilman highlights the potency of the physician’s visual scream in 1980s Poland and today.
“I shiver a little, I shudder a little”: Gist Translation and Uncanny Bodily Knowledges
Alison Phipps and Tawona Sithole share a poetic call and response between gist translations of the Carmina Gadelica (1900) and daré wisdom of Ndau traditions.