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Arya Ray discusses new directions emerging from the one-day international workshop ‘The Senses and Medical Humanities,’ held at Durham University in February 2026.

Congratulations to Arya Ray who takes on a new role as Assistant Manager (Events and Fellowships).

Arya Ray joins us to explore Bengali folklore

We are pleased to welcome a new member of the team: Xiao Ge has joined as Guest Editor for the Polyphony Meets China (PMC) project.

The Polyphony is seeking three Editors to join our team, two General Editors and one Reviews Editor.

Saurabh Chowdhury writes from an anthropological perspective to discuss the entanglements between evolutionary biological variations and modern sociocultural prejudices. Over millions of years, the…

A special edition newsletter from the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University.

Shruti Ghosh explores zine making as a method for “queering” knowledge production in health research.

Erika Pathó analyses the challenges related to the adoption of a Western-designed dietary measure to manage IBS symptoms in India, focusing on patients’ accounts of their experiences of dietary cha…

Surjavo Sen Gupta discusses the use of medical and artistic tools as agents of colonial subjugation by considering the phrenological enquiry of the Toda people of South India.

Surjavo Sen Gupta discusses the cultural depiction of Lajjā Gaurī as a cultural antecedent to the role of male-female compatibility in Fertility Studies.

Artist Priyanka Paul unsettles care work as they illustratively and poetically reckon with the reality of children caretaking for their chronically ill parents.

What is ‘critical neurodiversity studies’? Louise Creechan introduces the conference aiming to answer this question, and its Polyphony takeover.

Arya Ray reflects on attending the one-day conference Gender & Genre: Medical Humanities and the Moving Image, held at Durham University in September 2024.