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.
Remembering From-The-Outside: Personal Memory and The Perspectival Mind (Review)
In this post, Kimm Curran reviews Remembering From-The-Outside: Personal Memory and The Perspectival Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), authored by Christopher McCarroll. Remembering From-The-Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind is a
Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment (Review)
In this post, Christina Wilkins reviews Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment (London: Routledge, 2018), authored by Christopher Bollas. “We have changed.” (127) This simple sentence, uttered towards the
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Review)
In this post, Jane Draycott reviews Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Profile and the Wellcome Collection, 2018), authored by Jack Hartnell. In Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art
Meaning-making Methods for Coping with Serious Illness (Review)
In this post, Joe Wood reviews Meaning-making Methods for Coping with Serious Illness (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018) by Fereshteh Ahmadi and Nader Ahmadi. In Meaning-making Methods for Coping with Serious Illness, Fereshteh Ahmadi and Nader
The Polyphony in 2018: Year of the Visual Turn?
In September 2018 The Polyphony introduced itself as a multi-authored, multi-faceted web platform in the service of the medical and health humanities. Four months later, our writers, columnists and editors have painted what I
Reviews on The Polyphony
We are delighted to introduce our Reviews section and also to kickstart our call for reviewers. The Polyphony aims to showcase reviews of books, exhibitions and events that fall within the broad remit of the
Farewell and Thank You to CMH Reviews Editor Ben Kasstan
Angela Woods writes: As long-term subscribers will know, the intellectual currents of the Centre for Medical Humanities blog have ebbed and flowed since its foundation in 2010. While it has not always been possible