Tag Archives: medical humanities
Rewriting Schizophrenia: How Memoirs Challenge Medical Narratives
My research envisages a comprehensive examination of the epistemic ripples created by the memoirs in the dominant scholarship concerning schizophrenia. It hopes to accentuate the voices of the otherwise marginalised patients, effectively reclaiming their agency over the self, language, and knowledge.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film
In this Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film we provide a concise introduction to how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavour of Age(ing) Studies has shaped and been shaped by literary and film studies in recent decades. We seek to explore how literary and filmic narratives have addressed, contributed to and shaped our understanding… Read More »
Relating suicide: bringing the body back in
Guest post by Anne Whitehead Suicide is a subject that is still not often talked about. When it is, we tend to focus the conversation on mental health. This is both understandable and important; a better understanding of mental health can help us to prevent further deaths. But having lost my sister to suicide twenty… Read More »
The Medical Environmental Humanities and Public Health
Explorations in Science and Literature
We’re announcing a new series! Guest post by Anton Kirchhofer, Janine Rogers, and John Holmes In the twentieth century, a powerful myth arose that science and technology could solve humanity’s problems. New materials like plastics, new drugs, new computational and information technologies, would transform our world, creating a cleaner, brighter, healthier and more equal future. In some… Read More »