The Long History of the Medical Humanities

In our new 'MedHums 101' series exploring the key concepts, debates and historical points of the medical humanities, Kate Errington gives a general history of the subject: it's been around

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Graphic perspectives on caring, ageing and end-of-life

Writer and English Professor, Kathleen Venema, explores comic book depictions of the often complex and complicated worlds of ageing, caring and end of life. Over eight panels in Joyce Farmer’s

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Heart Transplantation on Film: Fantasy and Reality

Brian Keeley explores the discrepancies between the realities of heart transplantation and its representation in popular culture, calling for a more realistic and sensitive approach based on lived experience. The

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Fangorn, the Shire, and Beleriand: Tolkien’s Disabled Landscapes

Clare Moore explores the important role of disabled characters in the ecological restoration of Middle-earth in J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, as presented at the Medical Humanities and the

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The Long History of the Medical Humanities

Illustration of Nigel Baines Drowning

Graphic perspectives on caring, ageing and end-of-life

Heart Transplantation on Film: Fantasy and Reality

Fangorn, the Shire, and Beleriand: Tolkien’s Disabled Landscapes

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Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope
Let’s Fight! Illness Metaphors and Their Many Uses
Take It Back: Zines, Madness and Mental Health
Neurology Meets Geomorphology: "Panarchy (2): Rivearthings", a Performance Project
ILLNESS: A Narrative in Four Parts (Part Two)
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - reviewed by Dr Andra le Roux-Kemp
'The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care' reviewed by Dr Lisa Dikomitis
'History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life' reviewed by Dr Tom Widger
HIV/AIDS in the 21st Century
A Dry and Silent World: Part 1, 'A little like stepping off a precipice'.
Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection - reviewed by Grace Lucas
‘How much philosophical hay can be made with an empirical scythe?’ A review of Ruth Leys’ The Ascent of Affect