Antonio J. Ferraro’s latest piece on literary representations of the “nothingness of illness.”
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/05/16/wri…

''Skinny fat' and 'normal weight obesity' both describe a physical state that’s oxymoronic by perversely yoking opposites together: an act of rhetorical violence meant to capture our attention.”

Pasquale S. Toscano's new piece on 'skinny fatness.'
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/05/12/mis…

Read Renée K. Nicholson's piece on writing about chronic illness and expressing meaning in non-narrative forms.
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/05/03/ant…

Melissa “Mel” Maldonado-Salcedo’s new piece on writing through pain and trauma and the therapeutic potential of voices coming into harmony.
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/05/04/a-l…

Read Angelica Modabber’s new piece on Chris Burden’s 1971 performance Shoot and contagious gun violence. medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/04/22/wha…

Read Laura Stamm’s article on Chase Joynt's film Framing Agnes (2022), where she discusses archives, representations of trans people, and the task of queer and feminist history.
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/04/09/fro…

In her latest piece, Anita Annan discusses racist health research and practices and their consequences for Black women and BIPOC people. medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/04/09/inv…

Ingrid Berg’s review of Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed (2023) by Kathleen Watt! medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/04/09/boo…

“Five times a day, my watch informs me I am going to die.” Read Emily Staples’ new piece on the WeCroak app!
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/04/09/don…

Read Pauline Picot’s discussion of the connections between theater and medicine in the contemporary French theatrical landscape.
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/03/27/sen…

In her latest piece, Sabrina Masud uses the phenomenological concept of “chiasm” to discuss satellite images of disappearing clouds of pollution during the COVID-19 shutdown of 2020. medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/03/26/chi…

Read part one of John Gulledge’s reflection on the disability relic and the ethical implications of the experience of wonder. medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/03/26/adm…

What are “desert islands” and how do they affect healthy eating habits? In his latest piece, Kirk Johnson proposes solutions to the challenges of inadequate nutrition in urban areas.
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/03/11/foo…

Jing Sun discusses the historical significance of hospital meals in 20th century Japan. medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/03/08/how…

In her latest piece, Grace Kao discusses the animated film version of My Father’s Dragon through the prism of narrative therapy.
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/03/05/see…

“Stitches is as much about the trauma of growing up under parental tyranny and austerity as it is about the trauma of cancer.”
Caroline Hensley’s new piece on David Small’s Stitches.
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/03/08/vis…

Be sure to read the finale of reelaviolette’s Dear Asughara Series, featuring guest author Ifechukwu. medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/02/21/the…

Ramathi Bandaranayake’s close reading of The White Guard, a semi-autobiographical novel written by Russian writer and physician Mikhail Bulgakov in the 1920s. medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/02/22/sca…

Read about the relationship between the 'geographic self' and the communication of pain in Heather Snay’s latest piece.
medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/02/21/the…

Arlene Jackson's article on the unfavorable consequences of the cultural beatification of nurses. medicalhealthhumanities.com/2024/02/19/bew…