Louise Neilson details the launch of the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard Archive at Edinburgh University’s Lothian Health Services Archive

In the first entry of the Critical Mental Health and Orientalism series, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi examines the apolitical tendencies of Western healing spaces, and how these tendencies can prevent more radical and necessary forms of healing, resistance, and reformation.

Bill Penson and Darren Hill ask whether the bestiary might offer an alternative account of madness and distress to psychiatric and psychological models.

Eva-Maria Willis, Jamie Smith, and Iris Epstein discuss the increasing use of simulation training in nursing, its implications, and the possibilities of a posthuman perspective.

Claudia Sterbini articulates why medical humanities scholars should critically reflect upon methodological challenges to encourage collaboration

Alastair Morgan reviews Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other by Ben Alderson-Day (Manchester University Press, 2023).

A. David Lewis analyses recent X-Men titles to uncover the problem with Big Pharma as a main antagonist

John Launer reflects on the emergence of the ‘Conversations Inviting Change’ narrative medicine training programme

Christina Lee outlines the core tenets of Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) and discusses its necessary application in the medical humanities field.