Visualising the Human and Historical Lives of Tobacco in India
Upendra Bhojani extends beyond public health and draws the historical, colonial, and social dimensions of tobacco use in India.
Epidemic Empire: Book Review
Arya Aryan reviews Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020 by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb (University of Chicago Press, 2021).
Colonialism as a Tool for Investigation in Healthcare
MedHums 101: The concept of colonialism can solve problems of intersectionality in medical humanities research, says Samuel Yosef.
From Menstruation to the Menopause: Book Review
Jemma Walton reviews From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French, by Maria Kathryn Tomlinson (Liverpool University Press, 2021).
Critical Mental Health and the Allure of Orientalism
Akiko Hart, Tehseen Noorani and Mary Sadid point to orientalism in critical mental health discourses and practices, and invite contributions that help us trace, resist and overturn these problematic tendencies across mental healthcare, wellbeing
‘Literature and Ageing’: Book Review
Jade Elizabeth French reviews Literature and Ageing (Boydell & Brewer, 2020), edited by Elizabeth Barry and Margery Vibe Skagen. The opening introduction to ‘Literature and Ageing’ offers a range of reasons why ageing, as a literary
Collaboration and Competition: Medical Practitioners in Colonial South India
Arnab Chakraborty argues we should examine histories of healthcare from health workers’ perspectives, and highlights both the collaboration and competition between colonial and Indian medical services in British India. Colonial India presents a