Critical Medical Humanities: The Literary Connection
Blaise Sales explores how the imaginative, reflective and analytical skills of the literary field are a vital component of multidisciplinary approaches to medicine.
Stories of Self-harm: Collaborative Outputs in Literary Studies
Veronica Heney discusses co-producing resources in collaboration with people with lived experience of self-harm
Let’s Fight! Illness Metaphors and Their Many Uses
Anita Wohlmann considers how authors of illness narratives have consciously reworked the “fight” metaphor.
Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities
Benjamin Dalton and Rebecca Rosenberg give an overview of the programme for the forthcoming conference ‘Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities’, 29-31 July 2021.
Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities
Rebecca Rosenberg and Benjamin Dalton introduce a ten-day takeover of The Polyphony by Contemporary Womxn’s Writing and the Medical Humanities.
Medical humanities as a place for feminist and queer resistance, emancipation and joy
Rebecca Rosenberg and Benjamin Dalton report on the “Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities Seminar Series, 2020-21” How does contemporary women’s writing—in all of its diverse forms across fiction, poetry, non-fiction, (auto)biography, philosophy,