‘Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found’ reviewed by Professor Caroline Wilkinson
‘Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found’ by Frances Larson (W.W. Norton & Company, INC., 2014). This book […]
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Call For Reviews
Reviewer needed: ‘Four Meditations on Happiness’ by Michael Hampe
We are pleased to offer Michael Hampe’s intriguing book ‘Four Meditations on Happiness’ (Atlantic Books, 2014) for review. Expressions of
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‘Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies’ reviewed by Lucy Goldsmith
‘Searching for a Rose Garden: Challenging Psychiatry, Fostering Mad Studies’ edited by Jasna Russo and Angela Sweeney (PCCS books, 2016).
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Concepts of Health and Illness
Over the summer I attended Concepts of Health and Illness, a multidisciplinary conference organised by philosophers Havi Carel and Rachel
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Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection – reviewed by Grace Lucas
‘Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection: Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss, and Beauty in Popular Culture’ by Deborah Harris-Moore (Ashgate,
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‘Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences’ reviewed by Dr Svetlana Sholokhova
Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences by Felicity Callard & Des Fitzgerald (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Where to begin
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‘Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery’ reviewed by Dr Alice McLachlan
‘Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery’ by Richard Barnett in association with Wellcome
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Call for Review: ‘An Ethnographic Account of Reiki Practice in Britain’ by Dori-Michelle Beeler.
The Centre for Medical Humanities is delighted to offer An Ethnographic Account of Reiki Practice in Britain (Beeler, 2016) for
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Mother reviewed by Dr Francesca Moore
‘Mother’ by Elinor Carucci (Prestel, 2013). Elinor Carucci is an acclaimed photographer whose previous subjects have included documenting the realities
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Enthralling Interdisciplinarity at the Inaugural Congress of the NNMHR (blog post by Diana Beljaars, Cardiff University)
Diana Beljaars is PhD Researcher at the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University, and her project situates on