Garima Shrivastava considers how self-managed abortion (SMA) in India unsettles simple ideas of access, drawing attention to the social, technological, and institutional conditions that shape experiences of abortion.
Anindita Charles Xavier explores the representation of disability, state control, and body politics in Ishiguro’s novel.
Meenakshi Srihari offers a critical examination of how art addressing antimicrobial resistance draws on familiar war and superhero metaphors, and shapes how we imagine our entanglement with microbes.
Anand Padmasenan critically examines the relationship between colour deficiency, cinema, and disability through his documentary film The Color of Colours.
Sanjana Kumar uses her experience of the 2025 Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities PhD School as a lens through which to re-examine her own research practices as a psychodrama therapist and arts-based researcher in Kerala, India.
Sathyaraj Venkatesan reviews Maureen Burdock’s 2025 comic publication, Sleepless Planet: A Guide to Healing from Insomnia, exploring its role as a graphic narrative in portraying sociocultural dynamics of sleep.
Kirti Verma explores the critical connections between literature, mental health, and the emergence of medical humanities in India through the work of writer, translator, poet, and editor Jerry Pinto.
Erika Pathó analyses the challenges related to the adoption of a Western-designed dietary measure to manage IBS symptoms in India, focusing on patients’ accounts of their experiences of dietary change.
Anuj Kumar explores how the graphic narrative “Under the Shadow of a Building” visually conveys the structural exclusions of India’s healthcare system, particularly for urban migrant labourers. He examines medical pluralism, stigma, and the quiet endurance of bodies caught between policy and care through graphic medicine.
Surjavo Sen Gupta discusses the use of medical and artistic tools as agents of colonial subjugation by considering the phrenological enquiry of the Toda people of South India.
