What Happened to the “Psychopathic” Child?
Jesper Vaczy Kragh considers the history of “psychopathy” in child psychiatry, and asks what the contemporary discipline and the humanities might learn from the disappearance of this diagnosis.
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Passing Through with Care: A Review of Glasgoscopy by Vicki Husband (Glasgow: Vagabond Voices, 2025)
How can we conceptualize care, resilience, and regional pride in communities where the needs of residents conflict with the physical landscape? In his review of Glasgoscopy, a poetry collection by Glasgow-based OT Vicki Husband, Craig Lamont examines the potential of poetic language to illuminate Husband’s experience of the city and its people.
A ‘Neurodivergent Turn’: Review of ‘Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture’
This essay collection refuses to ‘reduce neurodiversity to a pathologised object of clinical study or passive trope in literature’, say Betsy Selvam and Helen Edgar.
Technological Dis-embodiment: Wearable Technology, Disability, and the Politics of Digital Biomarkers
How do we square real-time health data with our own bodily experiences? Claire Zhu considers the relationship- or disjuncture- between wearable health devices and somatic embodiment.
Dance and the critical medical humanities
Emily Davis, Daniel P Jones, and Gabriela Minden reflect on the potential of dance in the critical medical humanities following their one-day event ‘Dancing Across Disciplines’ held at Durham University in April 2026.
When Psychiatry Meets Mythology
Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.
The ‘Gotcha’: AI and the Reception of Laundry Lists
What role do intention, generation, and reception play in creativity? When does an artefact become art? James de Lullington responds to the Interdisciplinary AI workshop held at the Institute of Medical Humanities in June 2026.
Sex, Relationships and Social Care for Autistic People and People with Learning Disabilities
Georgia Rivers and Monique Huysamen discuss how social care policy can better understand the way in which autistic adults and people with learning disabilities express their desires.
Apparently Recovered: An Interview with Monika Pietrzak-Franger on her New Visual Study of Long Covid
Genevieve Smart interviews Professor Monika Pietrzak-Franger on Apparently Recovered: A Study of Long Covid. The interview focuses on health invisibility, stigma, and the right to hope.