Becoming with Queer Methodologies
Atholl Kleinhans reflects on how the Queer Medical Humanities PhD School helped him to find an “epistemological home” that embraced both his research and his multifaceted identity.
Somnambulations 2: Critical Approaches to Sleep
In the third of our Sociability of Sleep series, contributors reflect on the instrumentalisation, quantification, and visualisation of sleep.
What’s new and next in sleep?
The first in our four part series on the Sociability of Sleep (SoS) provides an introductory overview of the project and its resulting exhibition: InSomnolence
Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed Book Review
Sharrona Pearl reviews Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer And Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt (Heliotrope Books, 2023).
‘We are All One’, and Other Proverbs of Spiritual Bypassing
In the first entry of the Critical Mental Health and Orientalism series, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi examines the apolitical tendencies of Western healing spaces, and how these tendencies can prevent more radical and necessary forms of healing, resistance, and reformation.
Understanding the Cancer Patient Perspective Through Music
John Saganty explores the role of music in representing and experiencing the cancer patient perspective
Nature’s Medicine: Could Green Prescribing Shape the Future of our Health?
Shauna Walker contextualises the UK government’s recent investment in ‘green social prescribing.’
Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
At the Horse Hospital: Coughing at Holborn’s Colonnade
The seventh of our Waiting Times takeover series is a collaborative review of Martin O’Brien’s performance and lecture at the Horse Hospital in London. Ed Garland focusses on sonic experience while Amy Grandvoinet takes
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