Sonakshi Srivastava explores the narrativisation of a caregiver’s well-being in Tishani Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton (2020) Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, Tishani Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton or Burnt Sugar (as published
Ylva Söderfeldt reflects on the history of patient organisations and raises questions about how to redefine the histories of patient activism During the COVID-19 pandemic, the contradictory position of medicine in contemporary society has
Swati Joshi explores the concepts of self-care and proprioceptive care via Beckett’s last TV play, a wordless piece featuring only a dreaming man and his dreamed self. When one thinks of hands, one visualises
Lina Minou reflects on the role of waiting for early-modern patients and practitioners
In the second of two posts, James Rákóczi discusses the collaborative and explorative processes behind the Anxiety in Strange Places workshop
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith reflects upon the use of creative approaches within the ‘Feeling Your Dream Hospital’ workshop, part of the Sensing Spaces of Healthcare Project. The Sensing Spaces of Healthcare project involves using historical and
Chris Otter explores the planetary significance of plaque and the Anthropocene In 1978, the Scottish doctor Walter Yellowlees, an advocate of whole foods and healthy nutrition, stated: I believe it to be true that
Leanne O’Sullivan’s poetry collection A Quarter of an Hour uses imagery of animals and the natural world to create a bridge between illness and health, showing how understanding and acceptance can be as indispensable in
Exploring the significance of looking closely, PhD researcher Caitlin Doley asks: how can studying visual representations of old age help the medical humanities? We often hears the lamentation that old age renders people invisible.
Hillary Ash explores the politics of gender and women in early AIDS epidemiology and data collection On September 7th, 1993, the American Broadcasting Company’s (ABC) World News Tonight aired a segment on the growing
