Steven Wilson reflects on the importance of linguistic sensitivity in the medical humanities. The last ten years have witnessed extensive reflection and debate on the central preoccupations and methods of the medical humanities, testifying
Prerna Tolani and Sathyaraj Venkatesan explore guilt and postpartum depression through the lens of Teresa Wong’s 2019 graphic memoir, Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression. Postpartum depression (PPD) is a psychiatric condition
Angela Woods and Des Fitzgerald invite abstracts for Constructing Sites: Surveying Scenes of Interdisciplinary Collaboration What are the main sites of interdisciplinary collaboration in medical and health research and how, exactly, do they work?
Dr Frances Williams explores some of the tensions to be found in attempting to narrate the history of the Arts in Health movement, a sprawling field encompassing many ‘sub-fields’, including the medical humanities. When
Jamie Smith, a practicing nurse, brings a critical posthuman approach to ‘person-centre care’- urging us to question the assumptions that underly the widely employed framework. As a nurse, privilege is made perceptible to me
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) has become a widespread feature of contemporary discourse. With this in mind, Professor Dan Goodley and Dr Kirsty Liddiard discuss the need to remain critical. As members of iHuman
MedHums 101: Tom Hey explores the role of illness narrative in the medical humanities, from its importance in cementing the field to crucial questions about what lies beyond. Once upon a time in the
As part of our ‘MedHums 101’ series, Blaise Sales explores how the imaginative, reflective and analytical skills of the literary field are a vital component of multidisciplinary approaches to medicine in the 21st Century. For
Zara-Louise Stubbs reflects upon a recent online workshop, which explored the female body as a site of surrealist reclamation through writing prompts and exercises. In May 2022, writer Jennifer Brough ran a workshop for
In our new ‘MedHums 101’ series exploring the key concepts, debates and historical points of the medical humanities, Kate Errington gives a general history of the subject: it’s been around longer than you might
