When Psychiatry Meets Mythology
Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.
The ‘Gotcha’: AI and the Reception of Laundry Lists
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.
Why Must Chinese Women Eat Well, but Stay Thin? Food, beauty and eating disorders in contemporary China
Hua Ma explores how Chinese food culture and beauty culture shape women’s lived experiences of eating disorders.
Bodies in Queue: Digital Healthcare and Questions of Access
Sruthi Madhu explores how structures of exclusion are built into India’s increasingly digitised health care system.
What the Grandmother Knew That the Law Did Not
Maria Teresa Marangoni considers how a universal biomedical paradigm collides with local cultural knowledge and historical memory in debates surrounding Veneto’s vaccine mandates.
Syndemic Thinking in The Clinical Witness
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.
What I know stays outside
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,
Queer methods of presence, proximity, and pressure
Susie Russell examines her experience of embodiment, relationality, and interdependence at the 2025 PhD School: Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities.
Consuming Diabetes: Advertising and Twentieth-Century Patient Organisations
Andrew Burchell examines what advertisements in patient organisation magazines reveal about medical consumerism and the globalisation of diabetes care.
Narrating ‘Inherited’ Trauma: Reflections on World Literature and Epigenetics
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi reflects on a day of interdisciplinary dialogue at Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities, 27 March 2026