Visualising the Human and Historical Lives of Tobacco in India
Upendra Bhojani extends beyond public health and draws the historical, colonial, and social dimensions of tobacco use in India.
Barbers and Bare Feet: A History of Non-Doctors
Maloy Das uses Andrew Abbott’s sociological framework to reflect on what the history of ‘non-doctors’ can tell us about present healthcare debates.
Kicking the Habit: ‘Addictive’ Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025
The researchers leading the Wellcome-funded ‘Kicking the Habit’ project introduce us to its key themes, contexts, and guiding ambitions.
‘Swimming to Recovery’: Polio in 20th Century Belfast
Hannah Brown shares the oral histories of two polio survivors from Belfast, demonstrating how the Northern Ireland Polio Fellowship (NIPF) helped promote a social conscience around disability.
Invisibility and Change: Psychiatric History in Uganda
Alma Ionescu details patterns of invisibility within the histories of psychiatry and mental health in Uganda History has always been necessary to make sense of the present. This holds particularly true in relation to
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
Critical Mental Health and the Allure of Orientalism
Akiko Hart, Tehseen Noorani and Mary Sadid point to orientalism in critical mental health discourses and practices, and invite contributions that help us trace, resist and overturn these problematic tendencies across mental healthcare, wellbeing
Two Diabetes Cases in 1920s China
Xiao-Yang Gu explores the tension between two different diagnosis methods of diabetes in 1920s China and the consequent changes in the power dynamics in the clinical context.
History of Reproductive Rights: from Population Control to Reproductive Justice
Caroline Rusterholz offers a historical perspective on reproductive rights that reveals the key role activism has always played in this area.