From our December special issue, The Failing Heart: Semantics and science. Science today understands the heart as muscular ball whose mechanical job is to pump blood at sufficient pressure, and which can be replaced if needed. Yet in literature and conversation we still refer to the heart as part of what makes us the person […]
Category: Journal Announcements
September Issue: Death and Dying in the Operating Theatre
In today’s post we are happy to present a summary of ‘A small cemetery’: death and dying in the contemporary British operating theatre by Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster (@agnesjuliet on Twitter). Dr Arnold-Forster is a historian of health, work, and the emotions. She received her PhD in 2017 from King’s College London and until August 2020 […]
September Issue: “Voice of Resistance” and Palestine’s body politic
For the September issue, we are happy to provide a summary of ‘Voice of resistance’: Rim Banna, cancer and Palestine’s body politic by Abir Hamdar, Durham University. Dr. Hamdar’s primary research specialism is in modern Middle Eastern literatures, film and cultures with a particular interest in questions of health, illness and disability. Her monograph The […]
September Issue: The Well-Being Index WHO-5
Today’s post provides a short summary of The Well-Being Index WHO-5: hedonistic foundation and practical limitations, an article from out September issue. Written by Amalie Oxholm Kusier, M.A and Anna Paldam Folker, PhD, this work takes a look at well-being matters in everyday decisions. Summary Well-being matters in decisions about everyday priorities and decisions. It […]
September Issue: Mental Discomfort among Practicing Physicians
Today we present Distressed doctors: a narrative and historical study of work-related mental discomfort among practising physicians, a study by Jonatan Wistrand, Department of medical history at Lund University in Sweden. Summary From Dr. Wistrand: Prior to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic there have for some years now been reports in media regarding another epidemic striking […]
September Issue: Psychedelic Crossings and American Mental Health
In today’s post we are happy to preview Psychedelic crossings: American mental health and LSD in the 1970s, the work of Lucas Richert and Erika Dyck. Here about their work in the attached audio, and scroll down for a summary of the article. Summary Psychedelics are having another moment in the sun. You hear about […]
September Issue: Cancer and Coping by Metaphor
In today’s post, we bring you the work of Anna W Gustafsson, Charlotte Hommerberg, Anna Sandgren, about their project at Linnaeus University: Metaphors in palliative cancer care: Coping by metaphors: the versatile function of metaphors in blogs about living with advanced cancer. From their home page: To render the ungraspable graspable, metaphors are frequently used […]
September Issue: MRI Art, Poetry, and Patient Narratives
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 […]
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 […]