Louise Kenward interviews Clare Best about her multimedia project Breastless, published online recently as part of ‘Life Writing Projects’, a joint project between The Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research and REFRAME at the University of Sussex. In Breastless, Best traces her experiences of risk-reducing bilateral mastectomy through prose, a sequence of poems […]
Category: Interviews
Engaging with popular medical humanities writing, research, media, and film, the interviews will be chosen for their contribution to a debate which will be actively framed by the interviewer –the interview will always be introduced with a paragraph that speaks to the issues raised by the work and how this is relevant to the field, and particularly to the journal’s contribution to the field. (in future, many will also be available as podcasts). Suggested interviews may be submitted the attention of the blog editor.
Long Read: What Does it Mean to Listen, and How Can it Be Learned?
Anders Juhl Rasmussen interviews Dr Rishi Goyal, Director of Medicine, Literature and Society and Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Centre, and an attending physician in the Emergency Department at Columbia University. Goyal is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, and Rasmussen gives some observations from a recent teaching session […]
Deborah Bowman in conversation with Leslie Jamison, author of ‘The Empathy Exams’
Join the Editor of Medical Humanities, Deborah Bowman, in conversation with Leslie Jamison as they discuss her acclaimed essay collection ‘The Empathy Exams’ and more. Leslie’s work questions how we understand each other and the concept of empathy, drawing on her time as an actor working with medical students and her own experiences of […]