The author of today’s guest blog post is Dr. Anna Magdalena Elsner, a Swiss National Science Foundation Marie Heim-Vögtlin Research Fellow working at the Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Zurich. Her current project is entitled ‘Palliative Pages’. Focusing on the history of modern palliative care in France as well as French end-of-life […]
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Catherine Oakley on Cultural Materialism in the Medical Humanities
Catherine Oakley’s article ‘Towards Cultural Materialism in the Medical Humanities: the Case of Blood Rejuvenation’ is available through open access in the current issue of Medical Humanities. Oakley takes the shifting cultural, symbolic and scientific meanings of blood as her starting point, a shift that is, she argues, often understood as a consequence of changes to […]
Crossing Borders: March Issue 44.1
In this, our March issue, Medical Humanities presents articles that speak across borders, part of an interdisciplinary conversation. As EIC Brandy Schillace explains in the editorial (available here), ” While not a themed issue, the articles featured here do represent a trend—and in many ways, this trend offers a promising future.” We are excited to […]
Transcending boundaries and checkpoints
Muhi- Generally Temporary (By A Thread), directed by Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander and Tamir Elterman, London Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Barbican, 11 and 12 March 2018 We present a guest review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell University, New York. The film will screen in both Toronto and New York. In the opening scene of Muhi- […]
CFP: Health, Gender, and Embodiment
A call for papers has been released for Dósis, a new online-only magazine and blog which explores the intersections between medical humanities and social justice. Its founding editor is our own editor-in-chief Brandy Schillace, and the inaugural issue is now online and deals with Sickness and Health in the Era of Trump. The call for papers […]
The Visualised Foetus
The Visualised Foetus: A Cultural and Political Analysis of Ultrasound Imagery by Julie Roberts, London: Routledge, 2017, 176 pages, £110. Reviewed by Anna McFarlane Julie Roberts’ book delves into the muddy distinctions between the medical, the social, and the cultural, by using an emotive nexus point; the foetus, and its representation on screen. The monograph […]
CFP: Cultural Crossings of Care
‘Cultural Crossings of Care – an Appeal to the Medical Humanities’ is an upcoming conference to be held at the University of Oslo on the 26th-27th October 2018. The university will welcome keynote speakers Professor Julia Kristeva and Professor Marie Rose Moro. The conference aims to build upon the work already done in a […]
Two Sides of the Same Coin
Le Feu Follet (Louis Malle, France, 1963), and Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier, Norway, 2011) Reviewed by Dr Nadeem Akhtar, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, McMaster University Resilience has become an increasingly prevalent term in the world of psychiatry to understand what keeps people well. The developmental psychologist, Emmy Werner, first used the term in the […]
Reproduction on Film
By Anna McFarlane This special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science, entitled ‘Reproduction on Film’, is a rich seme for those of us in the medical humanities with interests in history and representation (whether through literature, film, or any other medium). The articles gathered here investigate the two-way influence between medicine […]
Opening Doors at Drew University
Drew University will be hosting a symposium : ‘Opening Doors: From the Medical to the Health Humanities’ on Friday, March 23rd from 3pm to 8pm at Drew University in Madison, NJ. The theme of the event is an examination of the trajectory and future praxis of the health humanities in US healthcare and healthcare education. […]