Beyond Reductionism: Reimagining Medical Education through the Humanities
Vivek N. D. reviews Alan Bleakley’s ‘Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (2024)’, examining the contemporary purpose of medical humanities in medical education.
Becoming with Queer Methodologies
Atholl Kleinhans reflects on how the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School helped him to find an “epistemological home” that embraced both his research and his multifaceted identity.
Practice Research and Pregnancy: ‘Embryology Lessons’
Sabina Dosani explores the tensions between biomedical knowledge and embodied subjectivity through creative writing.
Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics Book Review
Pragya Dev and Binod Mishra review Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics by Alan Bleakley (Routledge, 2023).
Creative Approaches to Empathic Healthcare
If empathy for patients declines in the course of a doctor’s training, can creative practice help redress the balance?
From clinical placement to simulation: the future of nursing education?
Eva-Maria Willis, Jamie Smith, and Iris Epstein discuss the increasing use of simulation training in nursing, its implications, and the possibilities of a posthuman perspective.
DisCrit in the Medical Humanities
Christina Lee outlines the core tenets of Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) and discusses its necessary application in the medical humanities field.
Power Struggle and Critical Encounter: Arts in Health and Medical Humanities
Frances Williams leans into the tensions of narrating the history of the Arts in Health movement, a sprawling field encompassing many ‘sub-fields’, including the medical humanities.
Writing elites and old boys networks in the medical humanities
Eleanor Shaw analyses the role of privilege, gender, racism, and sexism in the making of academic journals in the medical humanities. In the past few years, the critical turn in the medical humanities has
Through the Kaleidoscope: Creative Writing in Healthcare Education
Roshni Beeharry considers the multitude of ways creative writing practice contributes to a well-rounded healthcare education.