I want to present how narratives may be used to explore the contentious space of interaction and understanding between medicine, society and the individual. Personal, visual-based narratives can become an educational aid for the general… Read More »What It Feels Like
What elements of research experience might still be invisible to medical humanities researchers and creative practitioners? In 2019, a group of ECRs from the Northern Network for Medical Humanities set out to investigate what might… Read More »Thinking Through (In)Visibility in the Health Archive
This roundtable with Jason Bate (Falmouth University), Michaela Clark (University of Manchester), Tracey Loughran (University of Essex), Chris Millard (University of Sheffield),Liz Orton (LCC), Beatriz Pichel (De Montfort University), Chimwemwe Phiri (Durham University) and Katherine… Read More »Images, voices, texts and silences: the ethics of sensitive sources
This panel brings four perspectives on invisibility, explored through creative practice using documentary film-making; the psychological; the creative practitioner, the patient, and the humanist academic. We will cover 1. the process of witnessing the invisible… Read More »(Extra)Ordinary
The need to visualise COVID-19 has permeated official coverage, frequently in the form of charts showing daily infection growth rates and deaths. The need to reduce the infection rate has been expressed in terms of… Read More »How do we make a pandemic visible? Visualising COVID-19
This paper will discuss the ongoing international digital project, Visualizing the Virus. The project, which will go live in April 2021 is an interactive platform that showcases and investigates the diverse ways in which the… Read More »Visualizing the Virus: Thinking through a Digital Project
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
On Hand Washing The video essay On Hand Washing addresses issues around disinfection and aseptic actions in the operating theatres of surgery. Scrubbing and the creation of a sterile field of operation are ritualised processes.… Read More »On Hand Washing