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.
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.
A Series of Disparate Discomforts: Practice Research with Chronic Illness
Jane Hartshorn, who started a practice-based PhD in poetry in 2018, explores the tension between leaning into the chaos of chronic illness and attempting to accurately reflect it.
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.
Storytelling and Chronic Illness – An Evolution of Time and Place
Writer and psychologist Louise Kenward explores the links between illness writing and writing about place, nature and travel.
Challenging Narrative in the Critical Medical Humanities
Tom Hey explores the role of illness narrative in the medical humanities, from its importance in cementing the field to crucial questions about what lies beyond.
Asking Great Questions: Humanistic Methodologies and the Future of Care
Jane McGrail reports back from the April 2022 conference “A Crisis of Caring: The Humanities and Our Health”, where the National Humanities Center of North Carolina facilitated Medical Humanities conversations across an interdisciplinary cohort of experts.
“Living Through the Crip Conundrum”: Differing Bodyminds Event Review, Part 2
Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze review the presentations from their groundbreaking ‘Differing Bodyminds’ symposium and doctoral school, which sought to establish the position of crip theory in the Low Countries.
Differing Bodyminds: Setting the Scene For Crip Studies in the Low Countries
Disability scholars Lisanne Meinen, Gert-Jan Vanaken and Tessa Vannieuwenhuyze describe the challenges that shaped Differing Bodyminds – Choreographing New Pathways, the first official event on crip theory in Flanders.
Proprioceptive Care in Samuel Beckett’s Nacht und Träume
Swati Joshi explores the concepts of self-care and proprioceptive care via Beckett’s last TV play, a wordless piece featuring only a dreaming man and his dreamed self.