Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.| the polyphony
We’ve just had a piece published as part of a QUEERCIRCLE takeover on The Polyphony web platform. We’ve been huge fans of The Polyphony for years, and it’s a great place to have our work published because it focuses on the overlap between medicine/health (including mental health, trauma, neurodivergence and disability) and the arts/humanities (including […]| Rewriting The Rules
Lucy O’Hagan Early in his memoir Native Son: The writer’s memoir, Witi Ihimaera introduced me to the idea that stories have a whakapapa. I had an image of a story travelling through generations of tellers and listeners, told in different places: a dinner table, a classroom, a wharenui, a road trip or perhaps as a […] The post An invitation into a patient’s garden first appeared on Corpus.| Corpus
Trish Harris Last month I visited the hospital. Even when the reasons are straightforward, the experience is never without echoes. Frame #1: I am sitting in the café in Wellington Hospital’s atrium. From my table I can see an inner courtyard of tables and chairs and a sculpture of arches and lintel. The sculpture is […] The post In the frame first appeared on Corpus.| Corpus
The first patient I ever wrote about wasn’t actually my patient; as a first-year medical student, that possessive grammatical construct—“my patient”—hadn’t yet entered my consciousness, much less my lexicon. In any case, by the time I met him, he was already dead. More| Danielle Ofri
Tuesday 18th June 2024, International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Edinburgh. This is the third time, over the period of a decade that I have done a one-man, peaceful protest out…| Hole Ousia
As readers of this blog will surely know, the Wellcome Library and Wellcome Images hold one of the world’s great archives of historical medical and scientific images. Over the next few years …| Sick City Project
Pocket Horizon is an anthology of new poems inspired by objects in the Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge and Wellcome Collection in London. Our first workshop took place at the …| Sick City Project
I’m delighted to say that Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy has invited me to be scholar in residence at the Morbid Anatomy Library in Brooklyn for April 2014. Having been an admirer of Joan…| Sick City Project
This is the text of a talk I gave on 7 September at ‘Reclaiming Spectacle’ – the two-day finale of the 2013 Congress for Curious People. There’s a short bibliography of sources at the end, and I’m …| Sick City Project
The Ministry of Curiosity and the Sick City Project invite you to the next History Social – a regular chance to meet, make new friends and contacts, and talk about the past, present and future of o…| Sick City Project
