How do we square real-time health data with our own bodily experiences? Claire Zhu considers the relationship- or disjuncture- between wearable health devices and somatic embodiment.
Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.
What role do intention, generation, and reception play in creativity? When does an artefact become art? James de Lullington responds to the Interdisciplinary AI workshop held at the Institute of Medical Humanities in June 2026.
Hua Ma explores how Chinese food culture and beauty culture shape women’s lived experiences of eating disorders.
Sruthi Madhu explores how structures of exclusion are built into India’s increasingly digitised health care system.
Maria Teresa Marangoni considers how a universal biomedical paradigm collides with local cultural knowledge and historical memory in debates surrounding Veneto’s vaccine mandates.
Caroline Williamson Sinalo reviews The Clinical Witness: Conflict, Catastrophe and Medical Testimony, engaging with the complex interconnectedness of contemporary crises and the moral ambiguities, responsibilities, and pain that come with bearing witness to them.
Written in memory of her father, WAN Huan’s personal reflection explores her sudden loss to reveal how clinical knowledge breaks down within rigid hospital hierarchies, and why medicine requires humanistic empathy when silence, shock,
Susie Russell examines her experience of embodiment, relationality, and interdependence at the 2025 PhD School: Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities.
Andrew Burchell examines what advertisements in patient organisation magazines reveal about medical consumerism and the globalisation of diabetes care.
