Every Pill I Took
Prompted by Michael Lorenzini’s Every Pill I Took (2022), Peder Clark explores the materiality of Ecstasy pills, thinking about the possible meanings behind- and consequences of- their brash branding.
‘A Philosophy of Madness’ Book Forum: Part Three
Becki Smith reviews A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking (The MIT Press, 2020) by Wouter Kusters (translated by Nancy Forest-Flier). This is Part Three of a Book Forum on A Philosophy
‘Gut Feeling and Digestive Health In Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture’: Book Review
Arabella Henderson reviews Manon Mathias and Alison Moore’s Gut Feeling and Digestive Health In Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (Palgrave: 2018) “However novel the new gut-brain axis science may seem…many individuals who engaged with medical
Culture, Health and Wellbeing: Building a Manifesto
The constant interloper To lay my cards on the table, I am an arts-in-health person from the UK, who moved north–south to Johannesburg, and into the medical humanities, and has now clambered back north
‘The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture’ reviewed by Emma Seaber.
‘The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture’ edited by Jean Peter Garratt (Palgrave, 2016). The Cognitive Humanities is an edited collection of eleven essays from across the humanities, including literary studies, linguistics,
‘Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature’ reviewed by Dr Michelle S. Hite.
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature (Columbia University Press, 2017: Twentieth Anniversary Edition). Extraordinary Bodies, the Medical Humanities, and Civic Inclusion Rosemarie Garland Thomson begins the twentieth anniversary edition
‘The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine’ reviewed by Dr Katherine Aske
‘The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine’ edited by Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton, and David Fuller (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Ezra Pound’s observation — ‘beauty is genuinely difficult’ (p. 1) — reminds the reader
‘Illness as many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture’ reviewed by Dr Sophie Fitzsimmons
‘Illness as many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture’ by Stella Bolaki (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). Following our initial call for clinical and academic reviews of ‘Illness as many Narratives,’ Dr Sophie Fitzsimmons offers her perspective as a junior
‘Illness as many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture’ reviewed by Drs Claire Hooker and Scott Fitzpatrick
‘Illness as many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture’ by Stella Bolaki (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). Following our initial call for clinical and academic reviews of ‘Illness as many Narratives,’ Drs Claire Hooker and Scott Fitzpatrick offer their perspectives as researchers
Making the invisible visible, a review of the Life of Breath launch event.
Sarah McLusky – Project Manager for the Life of Breath project reports on the Life of Breath Launch event: Guests gathered at Durham University’s Joachim Room on 23 September to celebrate the launch of