Dilip K. Das introduces an interdisciplinary framework for epidemic narratives in India by drawing on methods from literature, social theory, and public health. He explores how communities, writers, and scholars make sense of outbreak narratives.
Dr Fei Li explores the integration of narrative medicine and palliative care at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in China.
In the first of our Waiting Times takeover, Lisa Baraitser and Laura Salisbury introduce us to the project: its context, questions, ambitions, and findings. We started working on the Waiting Times project in 2015,
Kim Crowder recounts, discusses, and explores neurodiversity and a heightened sensitivity to smell. Olfactory: Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; concerned with smelling. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. My first post-pandemic train
Char Heather considers the radical potential of sickness stories to crip and to queer what is considered ‘credible, coherent, complete, interesting, moving, and morally sound’.
We explore zines that centre food in part four of Lea Cooper’s series about the study of zines in the medical humanities.
In Part Three of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we move from the living room to the bathroom, containing zines around (Self-)Care.
In part two of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we encounter zines about trauma and memory in the living room.
In this six-part series about the study of zines in the medical humanities, Lea Cooper starts in the bedroom, where many zines begin their lives.
Writer and psychologist Louise Kenward explores the links between illness writing and writing about place, nature and travel.
