The Architecture of Suffering: Notes from a Johannesburg Trauma Ward
Louis Kennedy reflects on working at a public trauma hospital in Johannesburg, unpicking how it operates as a ‘sociostructural space of pain’.
Metaphor Map for Psychiatric Experiences
Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the ‘Metaphor Map’- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience.
Time of Mattering: Disidentification and Care in Small Rain
Marie Cuvelier explores how the temporal logics of hospitalisation are subtly resisted in Gareth Greenwell’s 2025 novel Small Rain.
Beyond Reductionism: Reimagining Medical Education through the Humanities
Vivek N. D. reviews Alan Bleakley’s ‘Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (2024)’, examining the contemporary purpose of medical humanities in medical education.
Hearing the Neuro-Voice in the International Narrative Neurology Network (INNN)
Claire Jeantils, Rong Huang, and Benjamin Dalton unravel the stories behind the International Narrative Neurology Network (INNN), a cross-sectoral network that investigates Narrative Neurology from a practical and theoretical perspective.
Narrative, Mental Distress, Care and Family in Jerry Pinto’s Oeuvre
Kirti Verma explores the critical connections between literature, mental health, and the emergence of medical humanities in India through the work of writer, translator, poet, and editor Jerry Pinto.
An Introduction to Narrative Palliative Care
Dr Fei Li explores the integration of narrative medicine and palliative care at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in China.
Non-violent Communication and Narrative Medicine for Promoting Sustainable Health: Book Review
Neil Vickers reviews Non-violent Communication and Narrative Medicine for Promoting Sustainable Health by Maria Guilia Marini (Springer, 2024).
Measuring Impact in Medical Humanities Work: Survive and Thrive Journal
Survive and Thrive journal may not score highly on traditional impact metrics, says co-editor David Beard, but it is still important work.
A Call for Bedside Sociology in Cadaveric Dissection
Suhad Daher-Nashif narrates the ethnography of forensic medicine and calls for the inclusion of social science perspectives in cadaveric dissection