Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other Book Review
Alastair Morgan reviews Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other by Ben Alderson-Day (Manchester University Press, 2023).
Reading Romance, and Not Necessarily Minds
Bridget Bartlett explores the double empathy problem reading Sir Philip Sidney’s romance, The Countess of Pemproke’s Arcadia (1593), in a paper presented at the Medical Humanities and the Fantastic: Neurodiversity and Disability Online Symposium.
‘A Philosophy of Madness’ Book Forum: Part One
Jeremy Spandler reviews A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking (The MIT Press, 2020) by Wouter Kusters (translated by Nancy Forest-Flier). This is Part One of a Book Forum on A Philosophy
‘Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness’: Book Review
Avril Tynan considers how the insights in Aho’s edited collection Existential Medicine can help us think through the disruption to our sense of ‘being-at-home in the world’ caused by the pandemic.
Desiring Objects
Chase Ledin explores the promises, fantasies and social values inscribed in the sexual objects held by Wellcome Collection.
‘The same day repeating itself’: COVID-19, Time, and Illness Perception
In this essay exploring parallels and distinctions between ‘COVID-19 time’ and ‘tuberculosis time’, Madeline Potter explores the resonances between the temporality of illness and that of lockdown, as well as reflecting on the impact of prolonged
Of smell and loss: Tweets from a Covid-19 Sickbed
Felicity Callard reflects on 27 days living with the symptoms of Covid-19.
‘Unetheredness and Baselessness’: Eating Disorders, Control and Existential Feelings
Sarah Warriner suggests that phenomenology can help us better understand eating disorders. Eating disorders are commonly understood as being centred on control, rigidity and inflexibility, most notably in the ‘lay’ explanation of eating disorders.
“25 Years of Madness and Modernism” A review by James Whitehead
I first encountered Louis Sass’s Madness and Modernism about a dozen years ago, when I was studying for an MA in modern literature. I had always been interested in writing about madness and the
‘Phenomenology of Illness’ reviewed by Dr Katherine Hall.
‘Phenomenology of Illness’ by Havi Carel (Oxford University Press, 2016). Vita Non Est Vivere, Sed Valera Vita Est: a review of Havi Carel’s Phenomenology of Illness. Martial’s epigram — life is not just being