Tim Shakespeare considers how sharing stories might help to break the silence around taboo health concerns. We’ve been conditioned by societal norms to keep certain topics – often involving our health and wellbeing –
David Ellis reflects on the unspoken judgements around disability
Katharine Cheston discusses the isolation, disbelief and stigma experienced by people with poorly understood medical conditions Autobiographical accounts of illness tend to follow a similar script. Typically, they open with an interruption: new symptoms
Ana Margarida Sousa Santos reviews Adam Montgomery’s The Invisible Injured: Psychological trauma in the Canadian military from the first world war to Afghanistan (McGill-Queen’s University Press: 2017). Adam Montgomery’s The Invisible Injured: Psychological trauma
Emily’s Voices by Emily Knoll (Knoll Publications, 2017). Reviewed by Nancy Nyquist Potter, Professor of Philosophy and Associate with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Louisville. Emily Knoll offers
Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda edited by Susan Reynold Whyte (Duke University Press, 2014). Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda is an account of the lives of the first generation of people to experience
