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).
Constructing Sites: Surveying Scenes of Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Angela Woods and Des Fitzgerald invite abstracts for Constructing Sites: Surveying Scenes of Interdisciplinary Collaboration What are the main sites of interdisciplinary collaboration in medical and health research and how, exactly, do they work?
Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health
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
Threshold Worlds: A New Interdisciplinary Project on Dreams
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
Bloomsbury’s “Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities” Book Series
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
Designing the Future – Virtual Reality, Robotics and Gaming in Healthcare
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
Medicine, Health and Being Human (Review)
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
Making the invisible visible, a review of the Life of Breath launch event.
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’ reviewed by Dr Angela Woods
‘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
‘Where does it hurt?’ Reviewed by Kyle W. West
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