Jamie Webb reviews the launch of Emily Postan’s new book Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests through Ethical Governance of Bioinformation (2022). What rights should donor conceived individuals have regarding genetic information about their biological
Professor Dan Goodley reflects on the recent Northern Network of the Medical Humanities Congress and the necessity to embrace disability as a driving subject of inquiry. I had the pleasure, this week, to attend
Emily Mendelson reviews LGBTQ+ People with Chronic Illness: Chroniqueers in Southern Europe by Mara Pieri (Springer, 2023). As the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues, millions of individuals find themselves chronically ill as a result of
Eleanor Kashouris reports on the 2022 Marginalisation and the Microbe Conference at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. The Marginalisation & the Microbe conference took place in late November 2022 as part of a Wellcome
Harriet Cooper reviews Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice by Alan Bleakley (Routledge, 2021). Alan Bleakley’s latest book Medical Education, Politics and Social Justice (Routledge, 2021) presents a new vision for what medical education
Co-organisers Nikolaos Papadogiannis and Rachel Love report back on the August 2022 conference on transnational and comparative histories of HIV/AIDS. The ‘Reactions to HIV/AIDS since the 1980s: Transnational and comparative history perspectives’ conference, which
Des Fitzgerald reviews Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World by Benjamin Bratton (Verso, 2022). Since mid-2020, a small library’s worth of books on the Covid pandemic has appeared. We have had
Josefine Hetterich reports on the ‘Jean Carlomusto Made Me Queer: Video Activism, Queer Archives and AIDS Crisis Revisitation’ conference held in Frankfurt, Germany on 14-16 July 2022 Hosted by Goethe University, the ‘Jean Carlomusto
Swati Joshi reports on the book launch of Marco Bernini’s Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives (Oxford University Press, 2021) The Bishop’s Dining Room in Durham Castle provided the fitting apparatus
The Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network introduces its Work-in-Progress seminar series, reflecting on papers about the stethoscope from the first session
