Mel Y. Chen – Unpacking Intoxication, Racializing Disability
William Viney writes – This is the third of five posts introducing individual papers from a special issue of Medical Humanities, edited by myself, Felicity Callard, and Angela Woods. A more general...
View ArticleBronwyn Parry – Narratives of Neoliberalism: Clinical Labour in Context
William Viney writes – This is the fourth of five posts introducing individual papers from a special issue of Medical Humanities, edited by myself, Felicity Callard, and Angela Woods. A more general...
View ArticleLynne Friedli and Robert Stearn – Positive Affect as Coercive Strategy:...
William Viney writes – This is the fifth and final post introducing individual papers from a special issue of Medical Humanities, edited by myself, Felicity Callard, and Angela Woods. A more general...
View ArticleDrawings from Visual Culture in the Medical Humanities seminar: June 18th, 2015
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View ArticleLife of Breath at the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice,...
PI on the Life of Breath project Jane Macnaughton writes about the SPSP conference: Like many port areas in major cities in the west, the docklands of the city of Århus in Denmark are undergoing...
View ArticleThe Social Life of an Archive – Dori Beeler on methodological encounters
Dori Beeler, CMH Affiliate, writes: As a medical anthropologist, my research focus has been on the subjective experiences, identity and construction of meaning for individuals and groups with respect...
View ArticleVisual Culture in Medical Humanities workshop, Durham, 18th June 2015
Fiona Johnstone – ISSF Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow and New Generations Programme member reports on the Visual Culture in Medical Humanities workshop: Recent developments suggest that it might...
View ArticleLibraries: Past, Present and Future.
Following the New Generations workshop at the Wellcome Library on Febraury 11th 2015, New Generations Programme members Becky Brown and Sam Goodman write: In February, the New Generations cohort...
View ArticleResilience and the Child: Childhood as Archetypal Opportunity and Dilemma in...
The concept of resilience is as old as humanity itself. Found in as diverse places as the myth of the Phoenix and the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, this idea seems to be paradigmatic to...
View ArticleMovie Making as Palliative Care
Dr Amy Hardie, head of research at the Scottish Documentary Institute, writes: I began my filmmaker in residence at Strathcarron Hospice in 2011, in the day care ward. It resulted in a feature...
View ArticleArchitecture and nature as a cure for wellbeing
by Maria Giulia Marini, Epidemiologist and Counselor, Director of the Health Area of ISTUD Foundation (Italy) Ancient Greeks did not separate the concept of beautiful (kalos) from the concept of good...
View ArticleInterdisciplinarity – facilitated serendipity?
post provided by Jane Johnson, PhD student Supported by the Wellcome Trust, the workshop The Practice, Benefits and Challenges of Interdisciplinarity hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities at...
View ArticleHow My BA Degree Prepared Me for a Career in Health
by Aimee Dyamond I’ve always loved stories. I love reading and hearing them, mostly. In the flightiness of my post-Matric prime, roused by the arrogance of late adolescence and brochure analogies of...
View ArticleNarrative Medicine and Natural Semantic Metalanguage: An Emerging Dialogue
“I have been wondering about the benefits that the use of more intelligible and realistic language, instead of jargon, could have for patients and doctors alike. In that respect, meeting Anna...
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