‘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
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.
‘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
Violence, Care, Cure: (Self)perceptions Within the Medical Encounter
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,
Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health
Dieter Declercq reflects on the “semi-formal” spaces of academic podcasts and live webinars which present new possibilities for connection between those working in the medical humanities. We recently concluded the second season of our webinar-podcast
‘Great Leveler’? Covid-19’s Impact on Migration and Health Research
Thea de Gruchy et. al. discuss the implications of Covid-19 for migration and health research.
‘Arrival at Elsewhere’: Book Review
Gita Ralleigh reviews ‘Arrival at Elsewhere’, a book-length collaborative poem compiled from work written during the first few months of UK lockdown.
Grief in End-of-Life Care During COVID-19
Deborah Madden discusses anticipatory grief and end-of-life grief narratives in the challenges of the COVID-19 era
Entering the House: Making Sense of COVID-19
Entering their houses, four voices – from anthropology, biology, psychology and philosophy – share surfaces of touch, cross-contaminating as the same themes appear in different ways
Behind the Masks: Mental Health, Marginalisation and COVID-19
Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey discuss how COVID-19 is impacting mental health and existing inequalities in South Africa