The seventh of our Waiting Times takeover series is a collaborative review of Martin O’Brien’s performance and lecture at the Horse Hospital in London. Ed Garland focusses on sonic experience while Amy Grandvoinet takes
Sasha Bergstrom-Katz and Tomas Percival discuss their ongoing exhibition at Birkbeck, University of London. Psychotechne: Assessment, Testing and Categorisation, an exhibition curated by historian Sarah Marks, is currently on view at the Peltz Gallery
Through a close reading of a single photograph from the 1980s, architectural historian Megan Brien demonstrates how the spatial dynamics and design features of a hospital ward shaped patient identities and behaviour. As Adrian
Reflecting on their recent Confabulations event, researchers Laura Cowley, Christine Slobogin and Katie Snow question the relationship between humour and art within the critical medical humanities. What does art bring to, and how does
Creators Shea and Tommy O’Neil discuss the making of ‘The Maskers’ COVID-19 comic series and their vision for a safer community My 10-year-old son and I created ‘The Maskers’ comic series to help identify
Katie Salmon reviews Efectos Secundarios: 19 Historietas del COVID (2021), copublished by Astiberri and la Fundación Cultura en Vena. Efectos secundarios (Side Effects) (2021) comprises nineteen graphic narratives from 2020 about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Exploring the significance of looking closely, PhD researcher Caitlin Doley asks: how can studying visual representations of old age help the medical humanities? We often hears the lamentation that old age renders people invisible.
Rebecca Blake discusses ‘Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium’ at the Centre for Art History and Theory, School of Art and Design at the Australian National University, 22 July 2021.
How should researchers approach the medical archive, and how might these spaces hide or highlight narratives on women, health and care? Christine Slobogin reflects on the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress panel,
Louisa Hann reviews Robb Hernández’s Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Avant-Garde (New York: New York University Press, 2019). The broad and ever-expanding domain of HIV/AIDS arts and performance scholarship has faced
