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.
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
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.
Chase Ledin explores the promises, fantasies and social values inscribed in the sexual objects held by Wellcome Collection.
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
Felicity Callard reflects on 27 days living with the symptoms of Covid-19.
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.
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’ 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
‘The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body’ by Luna Dolezal (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) In The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body, Luna Dolezal provides a
