Why Practice Research? Creative Writing and Recurrent Miscarriage
Sabina Dosani explains the process that led her to creative writing research methods in exploring recurrent miscarriage.
About the Project
MedHums 101 explores foundational concepts within critical medical and health humanities scholarship. It seeks to introduce, revisit and unpack some of the core topics, approaches, historical points and critical debates that make up this complex interdisciplinary field. It is led by associate editor Aly Fixter.
Launched in July 2022, the project has amassed a variety of compelling articles, covering areas such as the
history of the medical humanities, the role of critical theory and analysis, and the importance of rhetoric in studies of medical education and history.
Vision and Ethos
With its diverse audience and global reach, The Polyphony often attracts readers who are new to the medical humanities as a field. The MedHums 101 project seeks to make the most of this opportunity to raise awareness of critical medical and health humanities scholarship and to increase the accessibility of the discipline. By publishing articles demystifying, clarifying and developing areas of study and research, the project aims to create a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere for readers both within and without academia, offering the crucial insights of the field to a wider audience of stakeholders.
The project also offers a space in which established and emerging scholars can have a say in [re]defining the developing field/s of the critical medical and health humanities in the dramatically changed and changing healthcare landscape of the 2020s.
Power Struggle and Critical Encounter: The Birth of Arts in Health and the Medical Humanities
Frances Williams leans into the tensions of narrating the history of the Arts in Health movement, a sprawling field encompassing many ‘sub-fields’, including the medical humanities.
Studying Persuasion in Health and Medical Contexts
Hillary A. Ash explains the importance of the study of rhetoric in the medical humanities as part of our ‘MedHums 101’ series.
History of Reproductive Rights: from Population Control to Reproductive Justice
Caroline Rusterholz offers a historical perspective on reproductive rights that reveals the key role activism has always played in this area.
Challenging Narrative in the Critical Medical Humanities
Tom Hey explores the role of illness narrative in the medical humanities, from its importance in cementing the field to crucial questions about what lies beyond.
Critical Medical Humanities: The Literary Connection
Blaise Sales explores how the imaginative, reflective and analytical skills of the literary field are a vital component of multidisciplinary approaches to medicine.
The Long History of the Medical Humanities
In our new ‘MedHums 101’ series, Kate Errington gives a general history of the field: it’s been around longer than you might think.