Patient As Paper is a collection of artworks demonstrating how the visual arts can facilitate the expression of patients’ authentic thoughts and feelings. It is the result of a five-year collaboration between artist Emma Barnard… Read More »Patient as paper: the visual arts and transformative reframing in medical education
Drawing on research conducted for the Working Knowledge Project Short “Collaborations between artists and academics” (January 2021; https://hearingthevoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Johnstone_Collaborations_Academics_Artists.pdf), this paper considers a frequently opaque or invisible aspect of scholarly practice in the medical humanities, a… Read More »“The artist is not a megaphone for your research findings”: collaborations between artists and academics in the medical humanities
Over the past decade, UK policies on drug use and treatment have shifted from a model of ‘Harm Reduction’ to a model of ‘Recovery’ that assists people to lead drug-free lives. Whilst the policy of… Read More »Filming as a minor practice in recovery from addiction