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‘Narrative Medicine: Bridging the Gap between
WEBDear reviewers, I wish to thank you for the precious time you engaged in reading through my book, “Narrative medicine. Bridging the Gap between Evidence Based Care and Medical Humanities” edited by Springer.
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‘Modernism and Physical Illness’: Book Review – the polyphony
WEBD.H. Lawrence by Lady Ottoline Morrell (29 November 1915) The opening chapter traces two particular aspects of Lawrence’s representation of illness. Firstly, the manner in which ill health becomes the site or cause for a failed connection with one’s own body and the bodies of others. Secondly, the capacity of illness to act as an
Conversations Inviting Change: Narrative-Based Practice in …
WEBJohn Launer reflects on the emergence of the ‘Conversations Inviting Change’ narrative medicine training programme. Interest in narratives within healthcare goes back a long way, but most people reckon that the identifiable field of narrative medicine coalesced at the beginning of the 21 st century with the publication of two …
Fatness and Healthcare: Fat Studies and Fat Activism Perspectives …
WEBCat Pausé introduces her fat studies and activism series, featuring artwork from Barry Deutsch and articles from Kristen Hardy, Rachel Fox and The LadyBears, exploring the experiences of fat people with the healthcare system, drawing attention to the need for change in the medical and socio-political framing of fatness, and offering …
Challenging Narrative in the Critical Medical Humanities
WEBHowever, by the end of the first decade of the 21 st Century – the medical humanities now a distinct field and entering its ‘critical’ phase – academics began to pause and reconsider what exactly narrative was doing for the medical humanities. Sure, narrative had helped to cement the field and provided invaluable insight into medicine
‘The Sick Rose: Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
WEB‘The Sick Rose: Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration’ by Richard Barnett (Thames & Hudson, 2014).Following our initial call for a clinical and artist’s review of ‘The Sick Rose,’ Professor Shelley Wall offers her perspective as a medical illustrator and lecturer of ‘pathology illustration’.
Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Mental Disability
WEBAs I described in Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health (2020, 21-75), the importance of voices of those with lived experience of disabilities was only acknowledged for the first time in history during the tōjisha undō, Japan’s minority rights movements in the 1970s. A literary genre called tōbyōki
Finding “Small Health” in Lu Xun’s Translation Practices
WEBShijung Kim examines the intersection of medicine, fiction and translation in the work of renowned Chinese author and translator, Lu Xun.. When it comes to the topic of medical humanities and translation, especially with respect to the East Asian region, it is difficult to bypass the figure of Lu Xun (1881-1936), penname of Zhou Shuren, who is …
Take It Back: Zines, Madness and Mental Health – the polyphony
WEBTake It Back is a participatory zine making project made possible through an Unlimited Emerging Artist Award. The project came about because of the ways that many experiences of mental health and madness are made invisible by mental health campaigning and mainstream narratives that demand our experiences be coherent, …
Let’s Fight! Illness Metaphors and Their Many Uses
WEBAnita Wohlmann considers how authors of illness narratives have consciously reworked the “fight” metaphor. This essay was first presented as part of “Narratives of Illness”, the SELMA Medical Humanities Seminar Series at the University of Turku, Finland, convened by Marta-Laura Cenedese and Avril Tynan. Metaphors can be used for many …
Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network Launch and …
WEBThe inaugural Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network symposium was designed to launch the network by showcasing current work in the Health and Medical Humanities in Australia, in both teaching and research, as well as providing a forum for networking and discussion amongst all participants. The network was …
Behind the Masks: Mental Health, Marginalisation and COVID-19
WEBRebecca Walker and Jo Vearey discuss how COVID-19 is impacting mental health and existing inequalities in South Africa. As the numbers of people vaccinated against Covid-19 in high-income countries increase and lockdown restrictions on movement, travel and social interaction relax, just how far South Africa and many other …
Picturing Medicine: visual and material culture as historical source
WEBResearchers in the medical humanities are becoming increasingly alert to the potential of visual sources and visual culture. Here Dr Katherine Rawling, Dr Harriet Palfreyman, and Dr Beatriz Pichel discuss their research into medical photography to reflect on their practice and draw attention to possible new directions in the history of science …
What do posthumanism and pop culture offer the medical …
WEBPosthumanism, an emerging, future-oriented philosophical trend, seeks to revise the connections between human and non-human, technology and the environment, by deconstructing binary oppositions and advocating symbiotic relationships. In this sense, posthumanism and popular culture are inherently entangled: they extrapolate …
Medical Humanities and Mental Health Policy – the polyphony
WEBMedical Humanities and Mental Health Policy: Lessons from the AHRC’s ‘Engaging with Government’ Course (Institute for Government, March 5-7) by Åsa Jansson In 1765, twenty-year-old Johann Gottfried von Herder wrote in a letter to a friend that he wanted to bring his ‘many favourite ideas’ together under one theme: ‘how philosophy …
History of Reproductive Rights: from Population Control to …
WEBFollowing the definition of historian Maud Bracke, reproductive rights are a ‘set of principles protecting individuals’ rights in autonomously making decisions on whether, when and in what circumstances to become a parent’ (Bracke 2022, 752). This recognition of reproductive rights was the result of years of national and transnational
Exploring and Enhancing Wellbeing through Therapeutic …
WEBTherapeutic photography is the “structured [and] guided engagement with the creative intervention of photography in order to produce images for exploration with clearly defined outcomes for the participant” (Gibson 2018, 33). It is a method that can be used to enhance self-esteem, self-efficacy, and empowerment.
Les humanités médicales françaises: input, debates and challenges
WEBThe position of the medical humanities in France is cause for debate. There are, on one hand, scholars and researchers who aim at transforming medical training and intervening in the clinical realm and, on the other hand, scholars who are afraid that the humanities and social sciences will be subordinated to medicine.
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