How can we conceptualize care, resilience, and regional pride in communities where the needs of residents conflict with the physical landscape? In his review of Glasgoscopy, a poetry collection by Glasgow-based OT Vicki Husband, Craig Lamont examines the potential of poetic language to illuminate Husband’s experience of the city and its people.
Emily Davis, Daniel P Jones, and Gabriela Minden reflect on the potential of dance in the critical medical humanities following their one-day event ‘Dancing Across Disciplines’ held at Durham University in April 2026.
Genevieve Smart interviews Professor Monika Pietrzak-Franger on Apparently Recovered: A Study of Long Covid. The interview focuses on health invisibility, stigma, and the right to hope.
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.
Mila Daskalova, Julia Macintosh, Cheryl McGeachan, and Azra Khan organised the Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity Conference. In this piece, they reflect on how the conference unfolded, examining how delving into the history of madness fosters connection, belonging, and continuity for the mad present.
Mark Shtanov invites readers of The Polyphony to the exhibition Respectful Disposal, taking place at Saan1 Gallery in Manchester on 25–26 July.
Susie Russell examines her experience of embodiment, relationality, and interdependence at the 2025 PhD School: Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities.
Andrew Burchell examines what advertisements in patient organisation magazines reveal about medical consumerism and the globalisation of diabetes care.
Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the ‘Metaphor Map’- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience.
Vicki Husband uses her poetic perspective to reflect on the practice and pedagogy of occupational therapy in her book Glasgoscopy.
