Tag Archives: memoir

Beyond the Label: Finding the Human Story in Addiction and Recovery Memoirs

By | July 10, 2025
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Through an examination of memoirs that engage with different discourses of addiction, the research seeks to uncover ways in which the medicalised standpoint and other discourses impact the agency of the author as they recreate their experiences with addiction and recovery.

Rewriting Schizophrenia: How Memoirs Challenge Medical Narratives

By | May 14, 2025
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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 Medical Environmental Humanities and Public Health

By | August 31, 2022
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We’re celebrating the publication of the Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities with this adapted excerpt from the introduction, which explains why we need to bring medical and environmental humanities into conversation with each other now more than ever.