Tackling Racism with Positive Thinking: Psychology and Racism in 1960s America
Ian Miller discusses the relationship between self-esteem psychology and 1960s anti-racist activism, probing what insights this history can offer us today.
Race, Empire, and the Edinburgh Medical School: Conference Review
Simon Buck and Ian Stewart reflect on co-organising the two-day conference Race, Empire, and the Edinburgh Medical School held at the University of Edinburgh in April 2024.
‘Complaint!’ A (Complaint) Collective Book Review: Part II
This post, by Dona Henriques, is Part II of a series of responses to Complaint! by Sara Ahmed (2021: Duke University Press). For the other contributions, click here. Thank you, Sara Ahmed, for writing
‘Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics’: Book Review
Sabina Dosani reviews Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) by Nigel C. Gibson and Roberto Beneduce. In the year to March 2020, Black people were more than four times as likely as
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