Exploring and Enhancing Wellbeing through Therapeutic Photography
Neil Gibson reflects on therapeutic photography and self-esteem as part of a workshop delivered at the June 2023 Scottish Medical Humanities Conference
Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of Madness Book Review
Lorna Collins reviews Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of Madness by Alastair Morgan (Springer, 2022).
Lunar Chronicles: Belief and Bodies in Pain
In this highly personal piece Deepsikha Dasgupta recounts the intersection between lunar phases and the arthritic pain experienced by women in her family.
Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
Hematopolitics: Blood, Space and Time
Thomas Wadsworth reports on the Hematopolitics Symposium held at the University of Leeds in May 2022
Psychonauts 2 and Inner-Space Gaming: A Review
Rob Mayo reviews Psychonauts 2, a third-person platformer game on PlayStation 4 (Double Fine Productions, 2021).
The Premise: How Genetics and Bioethics Shape Our Future
Emma Nance probes the entanglement of genetics, biology and bioethics using an accumulative genetico-literary methodology The Puzzle There’s a lot that I have discovered about my family’s genetic code over the past 25 years.
God Help Us? Religion in Nineteenth-Century British Asylums
Historian Ute Oswald explores the role of religion in nineteenth-century asylums and questions the therapeutic benefits of engaging in similar practices today. Can religion make us feel better? Are religious people less likely to
Archives, Objects, Methods 2023: A Conference Review
Celebrating creative research and the unexpected links that exist between interdisciplinary projects, Hannah Palmer reflects upon the recent ‘Archives, Objects, Methods’ conference. In April 2023, Loughborough University’s Health Humanities research group organised the ‘Health
The Time of Care: Conference Review
In the final post of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha and Stephanie Davies reflect on discussions emerging from the Time of Care conference. Towards the end of March 2023, around seventy people gathered