Ash John discusses tensions between representing sexual desire and the moral histories of HIV/AIDS in contemporary AIDS theatre. What we think of now as the AIDS Crisis has become both a cultural and historical
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.
The Polyphony interviews Julie (“Jules”) Netherland, a leading expert in the critical study of drugs, medicine, science and addiction, and a keynote speaker at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities 4th Annual Congress in April 2021.
What does the figure of the mother evoke in us? How does an engagement with this figure expose the persistence of colonial logics and global inequalities? Yianna Liatsos reviews Mothers by Jacqueline Rose. In
Professor Bettina Bildhauer’s research addresses the limits of ‘the human’ by focusing on blood, materiality, monsters, and menstruation in the Global Middle Ages. The Polyphony interviewed Bildhauer in advance of her keynote at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities 4th Annual Congress in April 2021.
Who counts as a human? Emma Salt-Raper reviews Dan Goodley’s new book, Disability and Other Human Questions. In these times of polarised politics, economic instability and the escalating COVID-19 crisis, disability practices and politics
Meet this year’s Editor-in-Chief and our three new Associate Editors!
