When Psychiatry Meets Mythology
Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.
Syndemic Thinking in The Clinical Witness
Caroline Williamson Sinalo reviews The Clinical Witness: Conflict, Catastrophe and Medical Testimony, engaging with the complex interconnectedness of contemporary crises and the moral ambiguities, responsibilities, and pain that come with bearing witness to them.
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.
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.
Bed Theory: The Bed as Site of Conditional Care
Sarah Boira introduces their Bed Theory, noticing the assumptions and borders of the seemingly mundane object of the bed.
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.
If You Go Down to the Woods Today…
Kate Marks and Tracey Falcon’s polyvocal creative text, with artwork and audio, explores spinal cord injury and movement within the human and non-human environment.
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.
Beyond the Journal Article: Making Trans+ Autistic Health Research Accessible
In the first of two pieces about their zine, Cervical screening for trans+ autistic people: A tool for self advocacy, researchers Georgia Rivers and Katie Munday discuss the pressing need for accessible community resources and why they chose to create one for themselves.
Beyond Reductionism: Reimagining Medical Education through the Humanities
Vivek N. D. reviews Alan Bleakley’s ‘Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (2024)’, examining the contemporary purpose of medical humanities in medical education.