Illness as metaphor II: Ear for eye
I ended last month by suggesting that we need works of art which strip illness bare of its metaphors and give truth value to both its social conditions and the testimonies of those affected.
Imagining Other-Wise: Speculations on Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Future of Bioethics
Esther Jones gives a teaser of her keynote at this week’s Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress at the University of Leeds. Science and speculative fictions are rife with images of the “mad