Medicalisation and Medicalising Deviance
Liam Marshall reflects on the limits of contemporary medicalisation scholarship which can de-historicise enduring modes of power.
‘Caught red handed’: Guilty Contagion in the 21st century
Teresa Ingleby explores the intersections of pathology and personhood in the 21st century, discussing neoliberal constructions of health, agency, and identity in self-accounts of sickness. Historically, sickness and morality have been causally entwined. Predating
Wendy Lowe reviews ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame: Methods, Theory, Norms, Cultures and Politics’
Wendy Lowe takes a look at a new edited collection on shame, and explores its relevance to the medical humanities. In some ways, because Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame deals with a cultural tendency to