Emily Davis, Daniel P Jones, and Gabriela Minden reflect on the potential of dance in the critical medical humanities following their one-day event ‘Dancing Across Disciplines’ held at Durham University in April 2026.
Genevieve Smart interviews Professor Monika Pietrzak-Franger on Apparently Recovered: A Study of Long Covid. The interview focuses on health invisibility, stigma, and the right to hope.
Genevieve Smart, Nora Heidorn, Maria Morata Marco, Katharina Wiedlack, and Sofie Leyton reflect on the ‘Experimental Pedagogies for Health and Care’ workshop, exploring new directions for teaching and knowledge sharing in the Medical Humanities.
Mila Daskalova, Julia Macintosh, Cheryl McGeachan, and Azra Khan organised the Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity Conference. In this piece, they reflect on how the conference unfolded, examining how delving into the history of madness fosters connection, belonging, and continuity for the mad present.
Max Edward Perry reviews Charlotte Blease Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us — and How AI Could Save Lives (Yale University Press, 2025), reflecting on its arguments in the context of today’s debates about technology and healthcare.
Margarita Saona reviews Mary Roach’s “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,” where science, cyborgs, and animals come together as we think about the human body.
Lydia Chung illuminates the structural ableism in disaster response design.
Arya Ray discusses new directions emerging from the one-day international workshop ‘The Senses and Medical Humanities,’ held at Durham University in February 2026.
Lucyl Harrison weaves together the poems and life of Larkin with train journeys taken by both her and the novelist Yiyun Li.
Megha Manjari Mohanty reviews Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, edited by Fiona Johnstone, Allison Morehead, and Imogen Wiltshire (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), exploring how the volume positions art as a methodological tool for rethinking medical knowledge and care alongside cultures of illness and health.
