Poetry and Stimming

In this blog for World Autism Acceptance Week, James McGrath, an autistic poet and academic, advocates the value of “stimming” and explores how it relates to poetry. I dedicate the

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Power Struggle and Critical Encounter: The Birth of Arts in Health and the Medical Humanities

Dr Frances Williams explores some of the tensions to be found in attempting to narrate the history of the Arts in Health movement, a sprawling field encompassing many 'sub-fields', including

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Reclaiming the Disabled Sexual Self

Arlene Jackson reflects on sexuality, empowerment and discrimination in Samantha Renke’s 2022 memoir ‘You are the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread’. Amongst the many themes in Samantha Renke’s memoir, You Are

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A critical posthuman call to make ‘person-centered care’ messier

Jamie Smith, a practicing nurse, brings a critical posthuman approach to 'person-centre care'- urging us to question the assumptions that underly the widely employed framework.  As a nurse, privilege is

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Poetry and Stimming

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Power Struggle and Critical Encounter: The Birth of Arts in Health and the Medical Humanities

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Reclaiming the Disabled Sexual Self

A critical posthuman call to make ‘person-centered care’ messier

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Reviving The Normal Heart: Theatre Review
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Through the Kaleidoscope: Creative Writing in Healthcare Education
'knots, tangles, fankles': Book Review
'Madness, Art, and Society: Beyond Illness': Book Review
Healthy Homes: Building Becontree
'Philosophy of Psychedelics' Book Forum: Part Four
Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health
‘Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery’ reviewed by Laura Neff
Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities
Illness as Metaphor I: The Wild Duck
'Metrics: What Counts in Global Health' reviewed by Dr Megan Wainwright.
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