Australasian Health and Medical Humanities: Work-in-Progress Series
The Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network introduces its Work-in-Progress seminar series, reflecting on papers about the stethoscope from the first session
Deafness, History, and Material Culture: Introducing Jaipreet Virdi
Jaipreet Virdi is a historian of medicine, technology, and disability. Her book ‘Hearing Happiness (2020) combines her personal story with academic research, raising pivotal questions about deafness in American society. The Polyphony interviewed Virdi in advance of her keynote at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities 4th Annual Congress in April 2021.
Object Worlds / Worlding Objects
Human geographer Diana Beljaars sees her own discipline with new eyes after an interdisciplinary workshop at Wellcome Collection.
Subject-Verb-Object: Writing with and about Multiple Sclerosis
Gillian Shirreffs reflects on using writing to manage chronic pain – and to renegotiate the objectifying medical gaze.[1] As an erstwhile student of English Language and a former Secondary School English teacher, the relationship