Rachel Clamp attends the ‘Sense Methods: Literature, History and Embodied Experience’ symposium at Durham’s Institute of Medical Humanities. The ‘Sense Methods’ symposium, held in June 2022, was designed to bring together colleagues with an
This post, by Kellie Coretta Golbourne, is Part III of a series of responses to Complaint! by Sara Ahmed (2021: Duke University Press). For the other contributions, click here. ‘Makes me wanna holla, throw
Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith reflects upon the use of creative approaches within the ‘Feeling Your Dream Hospital’ workshop, part of the Sensing Spaces of Healthcare Project. The Sensing Spaces of Healthcare project involves using historical and
Marie Allitt reviews Alan Bleakley’s Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities: “How do I look?” (Routledge: 2020). Building on many years as professor of medical humanities in medical education, Alan Bleakley’s Educating Doctors’ Senses Through
‘Touch’ (second edition) by Tiffany Field (The MIT Press, 2014) ‘Like diet and exercise, we need a daily dose of touch’ (p. 143). Touch is simultaneously ‘the mother of the senses’, yet ‘the least
