Writing elites and old boys networks in the medical humanities

Eleanor Shaw analyses the role of privilege, gender, racism, and sexism in the making of academic journals in the medical humanities. In the past few years, the critical turn in

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Embodied Vulnerability: Securing Sleep at Japanese Tsunami Shelters

Brigitte Steger explores how an earthquake and tsunami disaster threatens sleep in many ways and what we can learn about sleep health by paying attention to extreme situations.  Twelve years

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Psychotechne: Assessment, Testing and Categorisation

Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival discuss their ongoing exhibition at Birkbeck, University of London.  Psychotechne: Assessment, Testing and Categorisation, an exhibition curated by historian Sarah Marks, is currently on view

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Disability Matters: Thinking critically about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) has become a widespread feature of contemporary discourse. With this in mind, Professor Dan Goodley and Dr Kirsty Liddiard discuss the need to remain critical.

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Writing elites and old boys networks in the medical humanities

co-sleeping in the tsunami shelter

Embodied Vulnerability: Securing Sleep at Japanese Tsunami Shelters

Psychotechne: Assessment, Testing and Categorisation

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Disability Matters: Thinking critically about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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Rock carving of four Chinese characters from antiquity
Narrative Medicine & Hospice Doulas in China
The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine - reviewed by Dr Fionagh Thomson
A row of tattered old books
Challenging Narrative in the Critical Medical Humanities
Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry reviewed by Michael Flexer
Finding Poetry in Gynaecology
A pile of watch gears
Chronicity: Future in the Past (Part II)
Differing Bodyminds: Setting the Scene For Crip Studies in the Low Countries
'How shall I speak again?' Deafinitely Theatre's 4.48 Psychosis
Snow
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty - Book Review
'Human Acts' reviewed by Dr Katrina Hinson
Black Health and the Humanities