The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research will host their 4th Annual Congress online from 21–23 April 2021. The Polyphony has been delighted to publish interviews with all four keynote speakers in the build-up to the Congress. In this final week before Congress, Congress organiser Ruben Verwaal talks to Felicity Callard, Professor of Human Geography at Glasgow University.
Ewan Bowlby considers what spiritual care might look like in the context of contemporary secular healthcare institutions.
Seeking to “take seriously” everyday acts of care, artist Emily Beaney reflects on how her collaborative practice-based research examines caring practices within the mother-daughter relationship. “The most anti-capitalist protest is to care for another
Jaipreet Virdi is a historian of medicine, technology, and disability. Her book ‘Hearing Happiness (2020) combines her personal story with academic research, raising pivotal questions about deafness in American society. The Polyphony interviewed Virdi in advance of her keynote at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities 4th Annual Congress in April 2021.
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Ryan Brown discusses the ways we have – and have not – publicly mourned those who have died from Covid-19
Alix Gallagher shares a 2021 lockdown experience, studying at home while filtering the noise from increasing amounts of advice.
Professor Andrew Lees, renowned neurologist and expert on Parkinson’s disease, reflects movingly on his medical education. Written on the tombstone next to my grandpa’s grave were the words, “In some new brain the sleeping
Paige Sweet and Danielle Giffort examine the cultural work involved in the production, circulation and validation of Covid-19 knowledge, via an analysis of the abject figure of the ‘bad expert’. Paige: Danielle and
Francisca Bartilotti Matos discusses the metaphors we use to describe COVID-19 and the effect these metaphors have.
