Writing the Sleep Crisis
In this post Diletta de Cristofaro introduces her Wellcome Trust project ‘Writing the Sleep Crisis’ and discusses sleep deprivation and speculative fiction that imagines the future end of sleep. A pamphlet with the slogan
“The House of Death”: Postpartum Psychosis and Infanticide in the Weird Tales Magazine
In her paper, presented at the Representing Women’s Health conference’s “Speculative Fiction” panel, Beata Gubacsi explores the portrayal of postpartum psychosis and infanticide in F. Georgia Stroup’s (1882-1952) “The House of Death: A Strange
Climate Change and Pregnancy in Naomi Booth’s Sealed and Marian Womack’s Lost Objects
In his paper, presented at the Representing Women’s Health conference’s “Speculative Fiction” panel, Jonathan Thornton explores the interconnected anxieties of pregnancy and climate change. In a report in Global Health Action in 2013, ‘Climate
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