What the Grandmother Knew That the Law Did Not
Maria Teresa Marangoni considers how a universal biomedical paradigm collides with local cultural knowledge and historical memory in debates surrounding Veneto’s vaccine mandates.
Queer methods of presence, proximity, and pressure
Susie Russell examines her experience of embodiment, relationality, and interdependence at the 2025 PhD School: Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities.
Consuming Diabetes: Advertising and Twentieth-Century Patient Organisations
Andrew Burchell examines what advertisements in patient organisation magazines reveal about medical consumerism and the globalisation of diabetes care.
Co-Production and Physical Activity: Reflections from Research, Practice, and Lived Experience
Crystal Voyle, Michelle Pullen, and Kate Marks reflect on the key points raised at the Co-Production and Physical Activity event held at Durham University in March 2026.
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.
Reimagining Access: Self-Managed Abortion in India
Garima Shrivastava considers how self-managed abortion (SMA) in India unsettles simple ideas of access, drawing attention to the social, technological, and institutional conditions that shape experiences of abortion.
Glasgoscopy: Creative Writing as Reflective Practice
Vicki Husband uses her poetic perspective to reflect on the practice and pedagogy of occupational therapy in her book Glasgoscopy.
Borrowing Stories
Chris Bowlby considers the nature of legacy and grief as he reflects on preparing his son Ewan’s work for publication after his death.
Making Space Where None Exists: Creating a Self-Advocacy Zine for Trans+ Autistic Cervical Screening
In this second piece about their zine, Cervical screening for trans+ autistic people: A tool for self advocacy, researchers Georgia Rivers and Katie Munday reflect on the motives for and process of their collaboration.
The “Having” and “Being” Modes of Depression
Joshua Clark explores the impact of grammatical and idiomatic differences between English and French on the conceptualisation, experience, and treatment of depression.