If medicine is about stories (the patients’, doctors’, science’s, society’s), when and where do conflicts arise that turn the cure into something perceived as violence? Marta-Laura Cenedese and Clio Nicastro introduce their Violence, Care,
Thea de Gruchy et. al. discuss the implications of Covid-19 for migration and health research.
Gita Ralleigh reviews ‘Arrival at Elsewhere’, a book-length collaborative poem compiled from work written during the first few months of UK lockdown.
Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey discuss how COVID-19 is impacting mental health and existing inequalities in South Africa
Performing Medicine’s Bella Eacott examines some of the norms around the use of touch in healthcare settings, and considers how these have been altered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Touch is central to healthcare practice:
Ryan Brown discusses the ways we have – and have not – publicly mourned those who have died from Covid-19
Alix Gallagher shares a 2021 lockdown experience, studying at home while filtering the noise from increasing amounts of advice.
What happens to the ‘patient’s voice’ when it participates in the creation of biocapital via digital health platforms? What is the significance of Olivia Banner’s concept of ‘communicative biocapitalism’ in the era of the Covid-19
Francisca Bartilotti Matos discusses the metaphors we use to describe COVID-19 and the effect these metaphors have.
In this post, Anna Kemball reflects on the framing of Native Americans as ‘postapocalyptic’ people in the context of Coronavirus. She discusses the missing public health data on Native American rates of Covid-19 amidst
