Respectful Disposal: an exhibition inviting public views on incinerating human remains
Mark Shtanov invites readers of The Polyphony to the exhibition Respectful Disposal, taking place at Saan1 Gallery in Manchester on 25–26 July.
Abolitionist Futures for the Queer Medical Humanities
Lola Dickinson interrogates her role as a historian within the medical humanities, questioning the functions of power, positionality, and perspective in her work.
Beyond Illness Narratives and Representation: Sarcoma, Surgery and Photography
Yewande Okuleye reflects on the exhibition Close to the Bone: Patient Journeys Through Sarcoma at the Hunterian Museum, London.
Comics as Research: Patients’ Reading in Psychiatric Institutions Around 1900
Anna Böhler’s research focused on the topic of reading practices in historical psychiatric contexts. She presents some of her findings in comic book format.
Hematopolitics: Blood, Space and Time
Thomas Wadsworth reports on the Hematopolitics Symposium held at the University of Leeds in May 2022
At the Horse Hospital: Coughing at Holborn’s Colonnade
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
‘Chiasmic time’: Being-in-time in Time Being
In the fourth post of our Waiting Times series, Laura Salisbury and Lisa Baraitser reflect on Ruairí Corr and Deborah Robinson’s short film: Time Being. Time Being – a film commissioned by Waiting Times
Challenging Narrative in the Critical Medical Humanities
Tom Hey explores the role of illness narrative in the medical humanities, from its importance in cementing the field to crucial questions about what lies beyond.
Pathologies, Punchlines and Power: The Medicalized Body, Humour and Art
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
Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities
Confabulations: Art Practice, Art History, Critical Medical Humanities aims to make explicit the contributions that artists and art historians can make to debates and developments in critical medical humanities. Convenors Fiona Johnstone, Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire reflect on the programme so far.