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To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by @DurhamImh

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In our new creative practice research series, Alec Finlay explores fatigue questionnaires through ā€˜subversion by means of soft poetics’. thepolyphony.org/2025/04/24/pra…

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Dr Aisling Shalvey reviews Angeniet Berkers' latest text, exploring birth politics in the Third Reich. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/05/boo…

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Iris A. Croft uses poetry to untangle the relationship between neurodivergence, being articulate, and receiving care. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/06/inv…

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.Neil Vickers reviews Maria Guilia Marini's Non-violent Communication and Narrative Medicine for Promoting Sustainable Health (Springer Nature, 2024): "required reading for anyone interested in how to extend narrative medicine into new areas". thepolyphony.org/2025/05/07/mar…

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This poetry from Jane Hartshorn allows her to experiment within the contradictory and temporary spaces of chronic illness and attempt to reflect this experience rather than control it. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/08/poe…

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Serafina Paladino reviews Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer’s recent edited volume Autism in Film and Television: On the Island. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/09/boo…

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Sreeparna ChattopadhyayĀ offers a first-person account of the harmful health effects of air pollution from burning waste in India. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/12/tox…

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Robert Manzo reviews Anna Stenning’s latest publication Narrating the Many Autisms, exploring its position within critical autism studies. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/13/boo…

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CfP: Narratives of health resilience: Prescribed confinement, forced displacement, and the stakes of global climate change - D/L 21/5/25 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/07…

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Surjavo Sen Gupta reflects on co-directing the short play ā€˜Srijan’ and its resonances with the narrativization of health within the Indian medical paradigm. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/15/sri…

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Samantha Carr explores her experience of chronic illness through a series of three prose poems, accompanied by her experimental, surrealist artwork. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/19/nar…

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In this piece from the 2024 #MedHums International Summer School, Claudia Sterbini & Keiran Edgar Wilson challenge the medical humanities' reliance on disciplinary hierarchies and call for a radical rethinking that dismantles, rather than crosses, boundaries. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/21/int…

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Arlene Jackson reflects on a photomontage created by the artist Ashley Cook, in light of her chronic illness relapse. Part of our new series examining creative practice research in the critical medical humanities. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/23/ref…

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Vikram Madireddy reflects on his medical training in rural Tennessee and the uncomfortable questions provoked when he encountered alternative systems of care. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/27/med…

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How could narrative medicine support healthcare professionals’ linguistic skills and sense of social belonging? Anna Ovaska and colleagues share their experiences of developing a new narrative medicine reading group model in Finland. thepolyphony.org/2025/05/29/mul…

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Ɖlaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Daniel P Jones respond to a recent Polyphony essay exploring the access difficulties of wearing face-masks thepolyphony.org/2025/06/02/mas…

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Sahanika Ratnayake discusses the intersection between cognitive-behavioural therapy and evidence-based health research. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/04/the…

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Neil Pemberton and Beck Heslop discuss their participation in Jo Longhurst’s installation, In Plain Sight? The graffiti installation uses images of bindweed to provoke questions about disability, belonging, and exclusion. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/05/in-…

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Shomik Ray discusses the role of theatre in initiating dialogue around issues of family caregivers for aged patients with dementia. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/09/aga…

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Dr Mieke Matthyssen explores the Chinese concept of ming (命) and its role in shaping human agency and wellbeing. thepolyphony.org/2025/06/10/bet…