The Illumination: From Mirror to Bridge
Favour Rubyson Kharnaior uses poetry to reflect on the relationship between medicine and spirituality and considers how spiritual approaches to healing can work in harmony with conventional medicine.
Visualising the Human and Historical Lives of Tobacco in India
Upendra Bhojani extends beyond public health and draws the historical, colonial, and social dimensions of tobacco use in India.
Workshop Review: The Senses and Medical Humanities
Arya Ray discusses new directions emerging from the one-day international workshop ‘The Senses and Medical Humanities,’ held at Durham University in February 2026.
Between the Lab and the Clinic: Perspectives from Medical Humanities and Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Kristin D. Hussey and Hannah Star Rogers draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to think through how the ‘lab’ is being employed across the medical humanities.
Media and Epidemics: the 1890s ‘Russian Flu’ Epidemic
Members of the Media and Epidemics Research Network provide three vignettes illustrating the different ways ‘Russian Flu’ was reflected in media and literary culture.
Charles Thrale: Disability and Gender Anxiety in WWII
Eden Rea-Hedrick brings artist and prisoner of war Charles Thrale into the realm of queer medical humanities by asking what his wartime work can reveal about midcentury concerns around gender and disability.
The ‘Headless Goddess’ in Indian Iconography and Reproductive Health
Surjavo Sen Gupta discusses the cultural depiction of Lajjā Gaurī as a cultural antecedent to the role of male-female compatibility in Fertility Studies.
Curating Medical Heritage 1: Reconciliation and Indigeneity
Michaela Clark reflects on the three-day workshop Curating Medical Heritage: Reconciliation and Indigeneity held in Uppsala & Stockholm on 23-25 September 2024.
Surveilling Sexuality: Abortion, Morality, and Colonial Governance in 19th-Century Bengal
Rayana Ghosh explores how anxieties around sexuality shaped the regulation of abortion in Colonial India
Narrating digital economies of deservingness
In Part 6 of the Hospital Chary takeover, Nora Kenworthy shares two poems from her recently published book Crowded Out (2024), where health care crowdfunding campaign narratives become evocative choruses