Abolitionist Futures for the Queer Medical Humanities
Lola Dickinson interrogates her role as a historian within the medical humanities, questioning the functions of power, positionality, and perspective in her work.
This Page Bleeds Too: Zines, Infertility, and the Queer Art of Refusal
Shruti Ghosh explores zine making as a method for “queering” knowledge production in health research.
Crafting Zines and Clinics: Fieldnotes on Queer Healthcare in India
Sharanraj Krishnan discusses how his engagement with the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School prompted him to ‘re-enter’ the ‘field’ and reexamine the positionality of the “I” within his research.
Charles Thrale: Disability and Gender Anxiety in WWII
Eden Rea-Hedrick brings artist and prisoner of war Charles Thrale into the realm of queer medical humanities by asking what his wartime work can reveal about midcentury concerns around gender and disability.
(Empire)ical Tools: from Callipers to Cameras
Surjavo Sen Gupta discusses the use of medical and artistic tools as agents of colonial subjugation by considering the phrenological enquiry of the Toda people of South India.
Painting Schizophrenia: Bryan Charnley’s Bondage Heads
Lorna Sankey muses on the paintings of artist Bryan Charnley, recounting her responses and reflections to the pieces.
Power Struggle and Critical Encounter: Arts in Health and Medical Humanities
Frances Williams leans into the tensions of narrating the history of the Arts in Health movement, a sprawling field encompassing many ‘sub-fields’, including the medical humanities.
Pathologies, Punchlines and Power: The Medicalized Body, Humour and Art
Reflecting on their recent Confabulations event, researchers Laura Cowley, Christine Slobogin and Katie Snow question the relationship between humour and art within the critical medical humanities. What does art bring to, and how does
Making, Movement and Multidisciplinary Exchange: Reflecting on ‘Senses and Health/Care Environments’
Marie Allitt, Agnes Arnold-Forster, Harriet Barratt, Victoria Bates, Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, and Clare Hickman reflect on the recent ‘Senses and Health/Care Environments’ conference, which took place in Bristol earlier this spring. In April 2022, the
Efectos secundarios: Book Review
Katie Salmon reviews Efectos Secundarios: 19 Historietas del COVID (2021), copublished by Astiberri and la Fundación Cultura en Vena. Efectos secundarios (Side Effects) (2021) comprises nineteen graphic narratives from 2020 about the COVID-19 pandemic.