Jesper Vaczy Kragh considers the history of “psychopathy” in child psychiatry, and asks what the contemporary discipline and the humanities might learn from the disappearance of this diagnosis.

How can we conceptualize care, resilience, and regional pride in communities where the needs of residents conflict with the physical landscape? In his review of Glasgoscopy, a poetry collection by …

This essay collection refuses to ‘reduce neurodiversity to a pathologised object of clinical study or passive trope in literature’, say Betsy Selvam and Helen Edgar.

Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.

Georgia Rivers and Monique Huysamen discuss their research into how social care policy and organisations can better understand the way in which autistic adults and people with learning disabilities…

Hua Ma explores how Chinese food culture and beauty culture shape women’s lived experiences of eating disorders.

Pramod K Nayar explores how ecological disaster and multispecies survival is represented in Brian Vaugh-Pia Guerra’s graphic novel Y

Arunima A. Vasudevan examines the need for an academic distinction between ‘memoirs of’ and ‘memoirs about’ schizophrenia to better account for complexity of expression within the experience.…

Favour Rubyson Kharnaior uses poetry to reflect on the relationship between medicine and spirituality and considers how spiritual approaches to healing can work in harmony with conventional medicin…

Jennifer Wallis reflects on her personal experience of an alcoholic parent and how her expertise as a historian has shaped her understanding of alcoholism.

Maria Teresa Marangoni considers how a universal biomedical paradigm collides with local cultural knowledge and historical memory in debates surrounding Veneto’s vaccine mandates.

Mila Daskalova, Julia Macintosh, Cheryl McGeachan, and Azra Khan organised the Figments: Madness, Health and Creativity Conference. In this piece, they reflect on how the conference unfolded, exami…

Max Edward Perry reviews Charlotte Blease Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us — and How AI Could Save Lives (Yale University Press, 2025), reflecting on its arguments in the context of today’s debates …

Caroline Williamson Sinalo reviews The Clinical Witness: Conflict, Catastrophe and Medical Testimony, engaging with the complex interconnectedness of contemporary crises and the moral ambiguities, …

Loshini Rajentharan reflects on Miss Marple’s attentiveness to human nature, the concept of epistemic injustice, and the relevance of lived experience and pattern recognition to clinical judgement …

Written in memory of her father, WAN Huan’s personal reflection explores her sudden loss to reveal how clinical knowledge breaks down within rigid hospital hierarchies, and why medicine requires hu…

Susie Russell examines her experience of embodiment, relationality, and interdependence at the 2025 PhD School: Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities.

Margarita Saona reviews Mary Roach’s “Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy,” where science, cyborgs, and animals come together as we think about the human body.

Amr Ihab reflects on their experience of medical training and how cultures of competition and rivalries among medical professionals can be challenged through the medical humanities.

Benoit Dillet and Sophia Hatzisavvidou examine the role that climate data plays in overlooking and depoliticising lived experiences of climate anxiety.

Andrew Burchell examines what advertisements in patient organisation magazines reveal about medical consumerism and the globalisation of diabetes care.

Katrin Wehling-Giorgi reflects on a day of interdisciplinary dialogue at Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities, 27 March 2026

Louis Kennedy reflects on working at a public trauma hospital in Johannesburg, unpicking how it operates as a ‘sociostructural space of pain’.

Crystal Voyle, Michelle Pullen, and Kate Marks reflect on the key points raised at the Co-Production and Physical Activity event held at Durham University in March 2026.

Upendra Bhojani extends beyond public health and draws the historical, colonial, and social dimensions of tobacco use in India.

Lydia Chung illuminates the structural ableism in disaster response design.

Garima Shrivastava considers how self-managed abortion (SMA) in India unsettles simple ideas of access, drawing attention to the social, technological, and institutional conditions that shape exper…

Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the ‘Metaphor Map’- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience.

Sarah Boira introduces their Bed Theory, noticing the assumptions and borders of the seemingly mundane object of the bed.

Arlene Jackson’s reflective cyanotype prints allow the sun’s rays to transform a body dehumanised by sexist medical disbelief into ‘something extraordinary’.

Vicki Husband uses her poetic perspective to reflect on the practice and pedagogy of occupational therapy in her book Glasgoscopy.

Inspired by both personal history and intellectual curiosity, researcher Molly Scott examines the impact of bodily disconnect on responses to touch in those who have experienced trauma.

Marie Cuvelier explores how the temporal logics of hospitalisation are subtly resisted in Gareth Greenwell’s 2025 novel Small Rain.

Bradford Stucki explores how the social construction of academic culture contributes to mental distress amongst University students and staff, and how the same processes can be directed towards car…

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

Chris Bowlby considers the nature of legacy and grief as he reflects on preparing his son Ewan’s work for publication after his death.

Monesha L. and Sathyaraj Venkatesan examine how Indian digital comics frame mental health as a shared social condition, extending health humanities beyond the clinic and into the textures of everyd…

Lucyl Harrison weaves together the poems and life of Larkin with train journeys taken by both her and the novelist Yiyun Li.

Megha Manjari Mohanty reviews Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, edited by Fiona Johnstone, Allison Morehead, and Imogen Wiltshire (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), exploring how the volume positi…

Yasmin Shafei explores the language of nineteenth-century Egyptian citizens’ petitions and points to its significance for the development culturally sensitive mental health interventions today.

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

Kate Marks and Tracey Falcon’s polyvocal creative text, with artwork and audio, explores spinal cord injury and movement within the human and non-human environment.

In this second piece about their zine, Cervical screening for trans+ autistic people: A tool for self advocacy, researchers Georgia Rivers and Katie Munday reflect on the motives for and process of…

Joshua Clark explores the impact of grammatical and idiomatic differences between English and French on the conceptualisation, experience, and treatment of depression.

In the first of two pieces about their zine, Cervical screening for trans+ autistic people: A tool for self advocacy, researchers Georgia Rivers and Katie Munday discuss the pressing need for acces…

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.

Liam Marshall reflects on the limits of contemporary medicalisation scholarship which can de-historicise enduring modes of power.

M. Iqbal Syauqi Al Ghiffary explores Intravenous Treatment as a tangible cultural artefact that transforms abstract suffering into visible care.

Elena Foulis and Julieta Manrique consider additional ways to understand people’s experiences with illness and pain beyond spoken languages, focusing on Manrique’s paintings of her experiences with…

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