Camilla Lyckblad introduces us to her audio installation on medical records and record keeping. Read and listen…

People on the internet are arguing about what ‘science’ means and what properly belongs to the ‘history of science’. (Aparna Nair’s thread on Bluesky is a good introdu…

How should a historian with personal experience of their topics write about them? Exploring the author’s own experiences with Munchausen Syndrome and Munchausen

Kristin D. Hussey and Hannah Star Rogers draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to think through how the ‘lab’ is being employed across the medical humanities.

This article imagines some theoretical directions for what is deemed as “critical OCD studies.” Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized in both clinical and cultural discourse as a preoccupation with order. This article moves beyond the ...

Vivek N. D. reviews Alan Bleakley’s ‘Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics (2024)’, examining the contemporary purpose of medical humanities in medical education.

Surjavo Sen Gupta reimagines a multisensory art gallery as a space for restoration and ocular relief through his time as a walk leader at the Flowing Heritage exhibition at Arthshila.

In the final of our ‘Recalibrating Stigma’ mini-takeover, Caroline Law and Harriet Cooper explores how stigma operates in relation to reproductive norms.

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Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.

In the first of our ‘Recalibrating Stigma’ mini-takeover, Oli Williams, Gareth M. Thomas, Amy Chandler, and Tanisha Spratt introduce the concept of anti-stigma.

This is the final weekend for the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art of the work of David Wojnarowicz, “History Keeps Me Awake at Night.” I can’t recommend the show enough, especi...

Órla Meadhbh Murray introduces the Gut Feelings course: a space for people to narrate, explore, and challenge their experience of gut symptoms.

David Woodhead reflects on being gay and getting older.

Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.

Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.

Employing Alison Kafer’s concept of ‘crip time’ as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.

Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.

As students turn to ChatGPT, educators warn that critical thinking, academic integrity and the future of the humanities are at stake

Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters’ upcoming ‘Online Town Hall Circus’ event which will take place on the 19th of September.

Members of the Institute for Medical Humanities’ Moving Bodies Lab reflect on a series of talks and workshops exploring what it means to be slow, still, and sedentary.

What are academic societies for? Intellectual exchange? Networking with like-minded scholars? Eva Surawy Stepney reflects on how the European Society for the History of Human Sciences forged connec…

Sofia Wanström reflects on the epistemic injustice experienced by people with endometriosis- related pain

Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover: Natasha Downs calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies and Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and just…

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Theological ethicists Caleb Day and Jonathan Dunn track the emergence of neurodivergent liberation theologies as part of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference takeover.

Shaul Bar-Haim reviews Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024) by Hannah Proctor.