‘Breast Cancer Inside Out’: Book Review
Gita Ralleigh reviews , Breast Cancer Inside Out: Bodies, Biographies & Beliefs, edited by Kimberly R. Myers (Peter Lang, 2021) In Breast Cancer Inside Out, Kimberly Myers, a medical humanities scholar who
‘ON CARE’: Book Review
Joe Wood reviews ON CARE, edited by Rebecca Jagoe and Sharon Kivland (Ma Bibliothèque, 2020) ‘Send fruit’ is apparently what Chileans say over the phone on international calls. Like asking about the weather, this
On Picturing Epilepsy: An Informed Reading of ‘Epileptic’
Claire Jeantils explores David B.’s Epileptic through the lens of graphic medicine, arguing that care must be taken when using illness comics as teaching tools. In 2010, Ian Williams identified the specificities of illness
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.
Fox Talks: Species Intersections and Healing in ‘A Quarter of an Hour’
Leanne O’Sullivan’s poetry collection A Quarter of an Hour uses imagery of animals and the natural world to create a bridge between illness and health, showing how understanding and acceptance can be as indispensable in
‘Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19’: Book Review
Susie Russell reviews Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19, edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke and Ayo Wahlberg (UCL Press, 2021). There is something eerie about reading Viral Loads
‘Ill Feelings’: Book Review
Peter Endicott reviews Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) I met a patient in my first year as a medical student with symptoms – intolerable pain, inability to be exposed to
‘Performance, Medicine and the Human’: Book Review
Maria Patsou reviews Performance, Medicine and the Human (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2020) by Alex Mermikides.
‘Biofictions’: Book Review
Can the study of human genetics authoritatively address the subject of race? James Hearing reviews Josie Gill’s new book Biofictions, which won the 2020 British Society for Literature and Science book prize.
Science Fiction and Psychology: Book Review
Beata Gubacsi reviews Gavin Miller’s Science Fiction and Psychology (Liverpool University Press, 2020). Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane, introducing the BMJ’s Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities special issue as part of the 2016