race – the polyphony

Conversations across the medical humanities

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. A couple of weeks later at […]

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 scientist.” From as early as Mary […]