Violence against health workers is a global problem, writes Margret Jaeger, a medical anthropologist researching violent incidents in an Austrian hospital.
This paper was presented at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress 2021.
How does technological innovation in the medical field give rise to new and expert ‘ways of seeing’? Researchers Jojanneke Drogt and Megan Milota, working in collaboration with pathologist Shoko Vos, trace the journey of a dermatological mole ‘in’ and ‘out’ of visibility to reveal different modes of ‘perceiving’ in relation to medical images.
How should researchers approach the medical archive, and how might these spaces hide or highlight narratives on women, health and care? Christine Slobogin reflects on the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress panel,
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.
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.
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.
