Genevieve Smart, Nora Heidorn, Maria Morata Marco, Katharina Wiedlack, and Sofie Leyton reflect on the ‘Experimental Pedagogies for Health and Care’ workshop, exploring new directions for teaching and knowledge sharing in the Medical Humanities.
Lucyl Harrison weaves together the poems and life of Larkin with train journeys taken by both her and the novelist Yiyun Li.
Megha Manjari Mohanty reviews Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, edited by Fiona Johnstone, Allison Morehead, and Imogen Wiltshire (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), exploring how the volume positions art as a methodological tool for rethinking medical knowledge and care alongside cultures of illness and health.
Dolly Sen dismantles psychiatric authority through art activism, exposing the politics of diagnosis and reclaiming the narrative of madness.
Meenakshi Srihari offers a critical examination of how art addressing antimicrobial resistance draws on familiar war and superhero metaphors, and shapes how we imagine our entanglement with microbes.
Anand Padmasenan critically examines the relationship between colour deficiency, cinema, and disability through his documentary film The Color of Colours.
Sanjana Kumar uses her experience of the 2025 Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities PhD School as a lens through which to re-examine her own research practices as a psychodrama therapist and arts-based researcher in Kerala, India.
Shruti Ghosh explores zine making as a method for “queering” knowledge production in health research.
Members of the Institute for Medical Humanities’ Moving Bodies Lab reflect on a series of talks and workshops exploring what it means to be slow, still, and sedentary.
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.
