Dieter Declercq reflects on the “semi-formal” spaces of academic podcasts and live webinars which present new possibilities for connection between those working in the medical humanities. We recently concluded the second season of our webinar-podcast
This post by Marco Bernini and Ben Alderson-Day is the first in a one-week takeover (Nov 30 – Dec 5 2020) of The Polyphony by Threshold Worlds, an interdisciplinary project exploring the nexus between
Readers and authors of The Polyphony will welcome the launch of Bloomsbury’s new book series Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities. The series focuses on investigating how knowledge in the Arts and
Beata Gubacsi shares some of the highlights from the “Palliative Care, Architecture and Design Symposium” held at the University of Liverpool in November, and her trip to the “Design/Play/Disrupt” gaming exhibition at the Victoria and
In this post, Natalie Riley reviews Medicine, Health and Being Human (London: Routledge, 2018), edited by Lesa Scholl. In defining what it means to be human (in any age), the sciences and the
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
‘Health Humanities’ by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler, and Brian Abrams (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Visions for the future of the field(s): Review of Health Humanities Evolution and emergence, the subsumed and
Following our call for review, we have brought together multiple takes on a curious collection entitled ‘Where does it hurt?’. Commissioned by the Wellcome Trust (2014) and edited by John Holden, John Kieffer, John Newbigin, and Shelagh Wright, the collection explores
Following our call for review, we have brought together multiple takes on a curious collection entitled ‘Where does it hurt?’. Commissioned by the Wellcome Trust (2014) and edited by John Holden, John Kieffer, John Newbigin, and Shelagh Wright,
Journalist Liat Clark has reflected on the process of “devouring brains with neuroscientists” in WiredUK. As this blog reported previously, Guerrilla Science is throwing a “Brain Banquet” in London on 13–15 March 2014 — a “unique pop-up
