Wendy Lowe reviews ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame: Methods, Theory, Norms, Cultures and Politics’

Wendy Lowe takes a look at a new edited collection on shame, and explores its relevance to the medical humanities. In some ways, because Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame deals with

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What’s it like to have ADHD?

David Ellis reflects on ADHD and the language - and judgements - around it. ‘But you said for me to write a couple of lines’, I protest as the teacher

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Contagious! Visiting an Exhibition on Epidemic Diseases

What do objects from a bygone age tell us about epidemics today? Since opening in June, the exhibition Contagious! reflects on the history of pandemics, including patients’ painful experiences, coping and containment strategies, and examples of ground-breaking medical research. Ruben Verwaal reports on his recent visit.

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‘Creating Romantic Obsession’: Book Review

Sierra Moreno reviews Kathleen Béres Rogers' Creating Romantic Obsession: Scorpions in the Mind (Palgrave Macmillan: 2019) Francisco Goya's 1799 etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, No. 43 of his Los Caprichos

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Wendy Lowe reviews ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame: Methods, Theory, Norms, Cultures and Politics’

What’s it like to have ADHD?

Contagious! Visiting an Exhibition on Epidemic Diseases

‘Creating Romantic Obsession’: Book Review

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Polyphoney? One creative practitioner’s precarious privilege in the medical humanities
Imagining Abortion: Foetal Personhood and Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks (2018)
Pilgrimage to/of the heart: exhibition review 'The Heart of the Matter'
Chronicity and Crisis
'William Blake's Gothic Imagination': Book Review
“Feminist Encounters with the Medical Humanities” Review
Embodying Suicidal Emotions in England, 1700-1860
Becoming an Image
Permeable Bodies
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment (Review)
The Houses of Parliament
Medical Humanities and Mental Health Policy
Medicine, Health and Being Human (Review)