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
The Physician Funambulist Should be a Model of Anti-racism in Healthcare
Academic neurologist and neuro-oncologist Lara Ronan reflects on Bob Simpson’s essay, ‘Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope’.
‘Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness’: Book Review
Avril Tynan considers how the insights in Aho’s edited collection Existential Medicine can help us think through the disruption to our sense of ‘being-at-home in the world’ caused by the pandemic.
Following the Evidence
Gill Partington revisits the collective process of indexing evidence at a recent workshop series. Following the Evidence is a seminar series which has been running during the month of July 2021. The events explored
Remembering Edinburgh’s AIDS Experience during COVID-19
Reiko Kanazawa reflects on a workshop series about Scotland and AIDS crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Organising a workshop during a pandemic is daunting. So also is talking about AIDS while each country is
Cross-disciplinary Conversations on Caring in a Crisis
In the second of our posts on the ‘Old Age Care in Times of Crisis’ Symposium back in April, Amie Bolissian considers how the conference highlighted the polysemic nature of old age care, the
Trusting touch during Covid-19
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:
Care, Carers and Covid-19: Reflections on Old Age Care in India
Reflecting upon her panel at the “Old Age Care in Times of Crisis” Conference earlier this year, Sayendri Panchadhyayi shares her ongoing research on old age care, caregiving and Covid-19 in India. At the