Object Worlds / Worlding Objects
Human geographer Diana Beljaars sees her own discipline with new eyes after an interdisciplinary workshop at Wellcome Collection.
Set Menu (His and Hers)
Artist Dawn Woolley finds inspiration in the work of Audrey Amiss, held by Wellcome Library.
Publics, pandemics, and the performance of ethical review
The Animal Research Nexus project developed an immersive performance for engaging publics with the ethics of animal research around an emerging disease. Bentley Crudgington talks to Gail Davies about happens when the staged event becomes a global emergency.
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Remembering
Working across the humanities-science divide: Raphael Lyne and Jon Simons on an interdisciplinary approach to remembering Raphael Lyne, Professor of Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English at Cambridge, has been working with
Psychtech 2019: Mental Health and Digital Technology – A Conference Report
Beata Gubacsi reflects on Psychtech 2019: Mental Health and Digital Technology conference Previous posts on Medical Humanities 2.0 have addressed the increasing interest in gaming and mental health as well as speculating possible trajectories
Narratives of Health, Life and Illness
Janet Mathieson reviews the one-day workshop ‘Narratives of Health, Life and Illness’ which took place at Wellcome Collection on 27th September 2019, jointly hosted by Wellcome Collection and the Consortium of the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE).
‘Madness, Art, and Society: Beyond Illness’: Book Review
Wendy Lowe reviews Anna Harpin’s Madness, Art, and Society: Beyond Illness (Routledge, 2018). Madness, Art and Society provides a comprehensive account of Anna Harpin’s ways of looking at and critiquing the practices of diagnosis and
Bringing the inside out
Marie Allitt reviews the workshop ‘Sensing the Machine-Body Interface’, hosted by the Science Museum on 11th July 2019. Have you ever listened to the beat of your own heart? How often do you think
Time to Let Go of the Two Cultures?
This post reviews “The Two Cultures: Sixty Years On,” an event held at the Foundation for Science and Technology on 24 April 2019. It originally appeared here alongside podcasts of the event, and is
Feelings, figures, and a field ready to take centre stage: ‘Representing the Medical Body’, Science Museum, London, 28 March 2019
‘Representing the Medical Body’ took place at the Science Museum, London, on 28thMarch 2019. Words: Fiona Johnstone. Pictures: Lucy Lyons. “Did you notice that everyone was constantly talking about their feelings?” asked a colleague,