Researchers in the medical humanities are becoming increasingly alert to the potential of visual sources and visual culture. Here Dr Katherine Rawling, Dr Harriet Palfreyman, and Dr Beatriz Pichel discuss their research into medical photography to reflect on their practice and […]
‘The Sick Rose: Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration’ by Richard Barnett (Thames & Hudson, 2014). Following our initial call for a clinical and artist’s review of ‘The Sick Rose,’ Professor Shelley Wall offers her perspective as a medical illustrator and lecturer of […]
Medicine, Mythos, Museums, and the Muse: Museums on the Cutting Edge of Medical Humanities By Brandy Schillace The recent December 2013 issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry hosted its first medical humanities special section. In the introduction (“Meaning and Medicine […]
