We are very pleased to provide a summary of Using MRI art, poetry, photography and patient narratives to bridge clinical and human experiences of stroke recovery, written by Gabrielle Brand and Steve Wise, Ashlee Osborne, Collette Isaac, Christopher Etherton-Beer. (See more by watching AFTERSTROKE, MRI artwork). MRI Artwork – Afterstroke from Steve Wise | 27Creative […]
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Access to Female Sterilization as Perceived by History of Medicine Students
Blog by Caitlin Fendley I teach a course on the history of disease, death, and medicine in twentieth-century America, which is predominantly taken by STEM and pre-med students and those seeking to work in healthcare. As part of teaching students about how culture and medicine influence each other, I devote lectures to women’s reproductive health […]
September Issue: The Ovum Club on the 50th anniversary of IVF
Today we present another excellent piece from our September print issue, Ex ovo omnia? A letter to members of The Ovum Club on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of IVF. This article is written by an infertile patient who left it too late to conceive, and who has herself experienced in vitro fertilisation procedures […]
September Issue: Beyond Pathology–melancholy and mourning in infertility
From September’s issue, we are happy to preview the work of Marjolein de Boer: Beyond pathology: women’s lived experiences of melancholy and mourning in infertility treatment. Marjolein is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on subjective experiences and cultural representations of gendered illnesses and medicalization processes, such […]
September 2020 Standard Issue
A NICE game of Minecraft: Philosophical flaws underpinning UK depression guideline nosology [read the article summary] by Susan McPherson Neurological disorders, affective bioethics, and the nervous system: Reconsidering the Schiavo case from a materialist perspective by Matthew Wolf-Meyer Putting the NHS England on trial: Uncertainty-as-power, evidence and the controversy of PrEP in England [read the […]
Body Positivity vs. Medical ‘Truths’: Obesity and the Cultural Production of Shame
Blog by Tanisha Jemma Rose Spratt In August 2019 US television host Bill Maher stated on national television that in order to tackle the US’s growing “obesity problem” fat-shaming needs to make a “come back”. Arguing for a greater emphasis on personal responsibility when it comes to food consumption and exercise, Maher claimed that “some […]
Their theatre: stories of redemption, hope, and reform
Zeina Daccache, a Lebanese film maker, discusses her strategic reform campaign in Lebanese prisons and lobbying for other disadvantaged populations Interview by Khalid Ali, film, and media correspondent Zeina Daccache has been advocating for marginalized groups in Lebanese prisons since 2006. Her calling followed the realisation that ‘mainstream theatre’ excludes and marginalises further society’s outcasts. […]
2 in 1: The Emergence of a Healer-Therapist in South Africa
Blog by Mzikazi Nduna, Stanley Molefi, Kamogelo Sefanyetso and Boitumelo Oliphant This blog is part two of a two-part sequence. Read the first part here. Against the backdrop of the emergence of dual healers in South Africa, there is a need to advance scholarly work in this area in order to support patient’s decision-making for […]
September Issue: Cancer and the Emotions
In our September issue, Dr. Noelle Dückmann Gallagher (Department of English, American Studies, and Creative Writing, University of Manchester) brings us Cancer and the emotions in 18th-century literature. Below we provide both a text summary and a video summer from Dr. Gallagher. Summary In this essay, I suggest that the rhetoric of today’s breast cancer […]
From September: Minecraft as metaphor for UK Depression Guidelines
Appearing in our September issue, Susan McPherson’s paper, A NICE game of Minecraft,” addressed the “philosophical flaws underpinning UK depression guideline nosology.” Dr McPherson is a researcher in the field of mental health and social care at the University of Essex in the UK, on Twitter variously as @SMhuirich @HHS_Research @ResearchEssex. SUMMARY This paper uses […]