A roundtable discussion on the ethical, legal and aesthetic challenges of exhibiting anatomical materials, with curators Katie Birkwood (Royal College of Physicians), Nathan Flis (Yale Center for British Art) and Annette Wickham (Royal Academy of Arts), moderated by Keren Hammerschlag.
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Playwright and filmmaker Ash Kotak reviews Martin O’Brien’s performance installation ‘The Last Breath Society (Coughing Coffin)’. Deciding to go to ‘The Last Breath Society (Coughing Coffin)’ at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, created
Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey discuss how COVID-19 is impacting mental health and existing inequalities in South Africa
Tim Shakespeare considers how sharing stories might help to break the silence around taboo health concerns. We’ve been conditioned by societal norms to keep certain topics – often involving our health and wellbeing –
Linda Nesby explores the emergence of the “ugly pathography” in contemporary Scandinavian illness narratives. Part of the SELMA Medical Humanities Seminar Series “Narratives of Illness”.
Historian Amie Bolissian reflects on the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress’s “Ageing” panel back in the spring of 2021. Throughout written history, European cultures have associated the changing seasons with stages of
Rebecca Blake discusses ‘Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium’ at the Centre for Art History and Theory, School of Art and Design at the Australian National University, 22 July 2021.
Maria Patsou reviews Performance, Medicine and the Human (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2020) by Alex Mermikides.
Andrew Godfrey-Meers reviews Critical Disability Studies and the Disabled Child: Unsettling Distinctions (Routledge, 2021) by Harriet Cooper.
