‘The Naming of Cancer’ reviewed by Emily Underwood-Lee
‘The Naming of Cancer’ by Tracey S. Rosenberg (Neon Books, 2014) Arthur Frank describes ‘illness as a call for stories’ […]
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Reviewer needed: ‘The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities’ edited by Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods
The Centre for Medical Humanities is delighted to offer ‘The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities‘ edited by Anne
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Empathy and memory in theology and literature! (Affiliates’ meeting, Friday 25th February 2011)
Two memorable presentations from Anastasia Scrutton (compassion, empathy and the intellect) and Simon James (narrative, memory and Dickens) provided a
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The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva – reviewed by Rampaul Chamba
‘The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva: An Examination of Schizophrenia through Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism’ by Lillian Burke (Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
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‘Addicted. Pregnant. Poor’ reviewed by Dr Kwanwook Kim
Addicted. Pregnant. Poor by Kelly Ray Knight (Duke University Press, 2015). This deeply engaging and long standing ethnography conducted from
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Fabricating the Body: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse – reviewed by Fiona Pettit
‘Fabricating the Body: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse’ by Sarah Himsel Burcon (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) In
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Reviewer needed: ‘The Use of Bodies’ by Giorgio Agamben
The Centre for Medical Humanities is delighted to offer ‘The Use of Bodies‘ by Giorgio Agamben (Stanford University Press, 2016)
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Reviewer needed: ‘The Right to Bodily Integrity’ edited by A. M. Viens
The Centre for Medical Humanities has been granted a review copy of ‘The Right to Bodily Integrity‘ edited by A.
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‘Dead Babies and Seaside Towns’ reviewed by Dr Fiona Johnstone
‘Dead Babies and Seaside Towns’ by Alice Jolly (Unbound, 2015) Alice Jolly’s memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns is a
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Call for Review: ‘Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries’ by Clare Herrick and David Reubi
We are looking for a social scientist to review Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries (Herrick and Reubi, 2017). Further information