Theatre practitioner Rachel Clive discusses a performance project which explores crossovers between neurology and geomorphology. Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed in the first place to consider the seasons of the year, and what each of them […]
Researchers in the medical humanities are becoming increasingly alert to the potential of visual sources and visual culture. Here Dr Katherine Rawling, Dr Harriet Palfreyman, and Dr Beatriz Pichel discuss their research into medical photography to reflect on their practice and […]
Maria Vaccarella writes about putting the “work” back into “workshop” in the medical humanities. During the summer, I coordinated two medical humanities workshops: “Texts as Symptoms” (part of my project Illness as Fiction: Textual Afflictions in Print and Online) and, […]
The Polyphony aims to stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. But what does it mean, and how does it feel, to be having these conversations in English as a non-native speaker? Marco Bernini reflects on the silent […]
Novelist Hilda Reilly discusses biographical fiction as a research method into the patient experience — and the unexpected questions raised in her exploration of Bertha Pappenheim, aka ‘Anna O’. Medical historian Roy Porter (1985) draws attention to a ‘patient-shaped’ gap in […]
