Speaking Out: Cataloguing the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard Archive
Louise Neilson details the launch of the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard Archive at Edinburgh University’s Lothian Health Services Archive
‘We are All One’, and Other Proverbs of Spiritual Bypassing
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.
A Bestiary of Madness
Bill Penson and Darren Hill ask whether the bestiary might offer an alternative account of madness and distress to psychiatric and psychological models.
From clinical placement to simulation: the future of nursing education?
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.
We should talk about our methodological failures
Claudia Sterbini articulates why medical humanities scholars should critically reflect upon methodological challenges to encourage collaboration
Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other Book Review
Alastair Morgan reviews Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other by Ben Alderson-Day (Manchester University Press, 2023).
The X-Men’s Poison Pill of Big Pharma
A. David Lewis analyses recent X-Men titles to uncover the problem with Big Pharma as a main antagonist
Conversations Inviting Change: Narrative-Based Practice in Healthcare
John Launer reflects on the emergence of the ‘Conversations Inviting Change’ narrative medicine training programme
DisCrit in the Medical Humanities
Christina Lee outlines the core tenets of Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) and discusses its necessary application in the medical humanities field.