‘Ill Feelings’: Book Review
Peter Endicott reviews Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) I met a patient in my first year as a medical student with symptoms – intolerable pain, inability to be exposed to
Frenzies, Films and Family: A Review of ‘Mental Traveler’ by W.J.T. Mitchell
Tobias Dietrich reviews W.J.T. Mitchell’s Mental Traveler (University of Chicago Press, 2020). “Amateurs and lovers are those who look on beauty and liken themselves to it, thus say they ‘like it’: but professionals,
Life and Death in the Nervous System: A Review of Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s ‘Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age’
James Rakoczi reviews Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Unraveling is about facilitated communication, regimes of personhood, and just how far our nervous systems
Sick: A Memoir
What hope is there for healing when the medical establishment views not your symptoms, but you yourself as the problem? Christy Zink reviews Sick: A Memoir (2018), Porochista Khakpour’s uncompromising account of her struggle
Gartnavel Royal: An Asylum and an Inspiration
Writer Gillean McDougall reflects on Gartnavel Royal Hospital, NHS archives and family history. The old Gartnavel Royal Asylum, a well-known landmark in the West of Glasgow, sits on a busy arterial road leading out
Workshopping the Medical Humanities
Maria Vaccarella writes about putting the “work” back into “workshop” in the medical humanities. During the summer, I coordinated two medical humanities workshops: “Texts as Symptoms” (part of my project Illness as Fiction: Textual
Emily’s Voices by Emily Knoll reviewed by Nancy Nyquist Potter
Emily’s Voices by Emily Knoll (Knoll Publications, 2017). Reviewed by Nancy Nyquist Potter, Professor of Philosophy and Associate with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville. Emily Knoll offers