Exploring and Enhancing Wellbeing through Therapeutic Photography
Neil Gibson reflects on therapeutic photography and self-esteem as part of a workshop delivered at the June 2023 Scottish Medical Humanities Conference
Seen and Unseen in Translational Medical Humanities
Brian Hurwitz and Magdalena Szpilman reflect on the seen and unseen dimensions of translation in the medical medical humanities. While Hurwitz examines the power of pretence in Classical medicine, Szpilman highlights the potency of the physician’s visual scream in 1980s Poland and today.
‘Rated RX’: Book Review
Lucy Weir reviews Rated RX: Sheree Rose with and after Bob Flanagan (Ohio State University Press, 2020) edited by Yetta Howard. One of art history’s most frustrating tropes is that of its invisible woman. Linda
Capturing Chronic Illness: Bearing Witness through Photography
Donna McCormack and Ingrid Young discuss their photography project, Capturing Chronic Illness
Photography in Medical Education
Medical students at Barts and the London School of Medicine are offered an option module in Photography and Medicine. Artist Liz Orton, who delivers the course on behalf of Performing Medicine, reflects on its aims, objectives, and outcomes.
(Not) Looking at Historical Medical Images
How do researchers respond to the politics, ethics and emotions raised by archival medical images? Michaela Clark reviews the workshop ‘Emotions and Ethics: the Use and Abuse of Historical Images’, organised by AboutFace, 17 June 2020.
Picturing Medicine: visual and material culture as historical source
Researchers in the medical humanities are becoming increasingly alert to the potential of visual sources and visual culture. Here Dr Katherine Rawling, Dr Harriet Palfreyman, and Dr Beatriz Pichel discuss their research into medical photography
Mother reviewed by Dr Francesca Moore
‘Mother’ by Elinor Carucci (Prestel, 2013). Elinor Carucci is an acclaimed photographer whose previous subjects have included documenting the realities of married life Closer (2002) and her work as a dancer, Diary of a