Speaking Out: Cataloguing the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard Archive
Louise Neilson details the launch of the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard Archive at Edinburgh University’s Lothian Health Services Archive
Considering Uncertainty in the History of Psychiatry
Pressing historians to attach weight to expressions of professional uncertainty and critique in twentieth-century psychiatry, Sarah Phelan makes a case for studying overlooked historical figures within psychiatric history.
Media and the Mind: Book Review
Heather Meek reviews Matthew Daniel Eddy’s Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Mapping the Medical Legacies of British Colonialism
Reflecting on her recent fellowship at Art HX, researcher Shelley Angelie Saggar traces how objects and photographs recall the medical legacies of British colonialism, as well as her own family history.
Lunar Chronicles: Belief and Bodies in Pain
In this highly personal piece Deepsikha Dasgupta recounts the intersection between lunar phases and the arthritic pain experienced by women in her family.
Hematopolitics: Blood, Space and Time
Thomas Wadsworth reports on the Hematopolitics Symposium held at the University of Leeds in May 2022
The “Meanwhiles” of Post-War Cultures of Care
In the second of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha reflects on the temporality of the ‘meanwhile’ and how it operates in post-war spaces of care In the animated comedy television series SpongeBob SquarePants,
‘Making Sense of Medicine’: Book Review
Max Perry reviews Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge, edited by John Nott and Anna Harris (Intellect, 2022). My grandpa worked as a sailing instructor. Originally trained as
‘Caught red handed’: Guilty Contagion in the 21st century
Teresa Ingleby explores the intersections of pathology and personhood in the 21st century, discussing neoliberal constructions of health, agency, and identity in self-accounts of sickness. Historically, sickness and morality have been causally entwined. Predating
Oral Histories of Mental Healthcare
Verusca Calabria explores oral history as a vital method to research histories of mental healthcare. In recent decades in the UK, interest in oral history as a research method has expanded, both as a