Who Gets an Apology? Sweden’s Reckoning with Medical Violence
In this post Anna Dersken explores the differing ways Sweden responded to its past of sterilisation and lobotomy, highlighting themes of medical ethics, responsibility, and injustice.
Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics Book Review
Pragya Dev and Binod Mishra review Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics by Alan Bleakley (Routledge, 2023).
Medical Humanities and Artificial Intelligence: Boundaries, Methodologies, Practice
What does the spike in attention to AI mean for the medical humanities? Louise Hatherall considers some possible answers – and raises further questions.
Interrogating Medical Aid in Dying Rhetorics
Analysis of testimony at Medical Aid in Dying hearings challenges the ableist normalisation of authorised disposability of certain members of the population, says Christa Teston.
Selective Abortion: Involving People with Down’s Syndrome in the Conversation
Amy Redhead discusses the ethical necessity of involving people with Down’s Syndrome (DS) in discussions of, and debates around, selective abortion (SA). Bioethical debates surrounding Down’s syndrome (trisomy 21) have taken up space in
‘The Children Act’ reviewed by Vivek Santayana
‘The Children Act’ by Ian McEwan (Vintage, 2014) A number of Ian McEwan’s previous novels have touched upon issues surrounding medicine and medical ethics, such as euthanasia in Amsterdam (1998) or the life of