Xiaohong Liu introduces the concept and history of Chinese tea therapy, alongside its contemporary practice at Hunan Cancer Hospital in China.| the polyphony
Alina M. Jolly and Rayson K. Alex review I Have Not Seen Mandu, exploring its literary and epistemological disruptions of India’s mental health climate.| the polyphony
The Polyphony is seeking three Editors to join our team, two General Editors and one Reviews Editor.| the polyphony
Charles Forsdick concludes the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses how this project on historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contributes to rethinking the medical humanities in ways that are simultaneously multilingual, transnational and translational.| the polyphony
In Part 4 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Rocío Rødtjer discusses the colonial legacies of nineteenth-century medical metaphors and demonstrates their ongoing relevance for the present day.| the polyphony
In Part 3 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Nicolás Fernández-Medina examines the Spanish avant-garde’s response to the biomedical sciences through the lens of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s pioneering avant-gardism.| the polyphony
In Part 2 of the Reading Bodies takeover, Olivia Glaze considers the policy and impact potential of research on languages, identity and culture within the medical humanities.| the polyphony
Katharine Murphy introduces the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities.| the polyphony
Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses ‘Unboxing’, a methodology taking reproductive health research to Black Caribbean women.| the polyphony
Saurabh Chowdhury writes from an anthropological perspective to discuss the entanglements between evolutionary biological variations and modern sociocultural prejudices. Over millions of years, the human body has evolved with a wide range of variations.| the polyphony
Employing Alison Kafer's concept of 'crip time' as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.| the polyphony
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
Lola Dickinson interrogates her role as a historian within the medical humanities, questioning the functions of power, positionality, and perspective in her work.| the polyphony
Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy reflects on Dalit motherhood(s) as demanding, undervalued, embodied (re)productive labour. She critically explores health research, arguing that Dalit health is an afterthought, through an analysis of their everyday embodied material realities within the nexus of caste, gender, and economic class marginalization.| the polyphony
Jack Rhys Hancock explores the well-loved novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Simon Stephen’s play adaptation, reflecting its ongoing influence on the representation of Autism.| the polyphony
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.| the polyphony
Shu Yang reports on the latest developments in understanding diseases and disorders in the Chinese context from a gender perspective in medicine. “Dis-ease: Women and (Dis)order in China,” an international symposium co-organized by Global Asian Studies (GAS)| the polyphony
Sathyaraj Venkatesan reviews Maureen Burdock’s 2025 comic publication, Sleepless Planet: A Guide to Healing from Insomnia, exploring its role as a graphic narrative in portraying sociocultural dynamics of sleep.| the polyphony
Antoinette Polito reviews Dr Heidi Edmundson's unflinching account of working as an Emergency Medicine consultant in a London hospital, and her embodied reflections on life in the NHS.| the polyphony