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Our blog section covers reviews, podcasts, and essays. The Polyphony is a web platform that aims to stimulate, catalyze, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities.
The Polyphony Blog
1w ago
Andrea Holck reviews Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us (Faber & Faber, 2024) by Charan Ranganath and reflects on the closeness of memory and imagination in neuroscience and fiction ..read more
The Polyphony Blog
2w ago
Sarah Scheidmantel retells the history of Berlin massage institutes and the surveillance of sexuality in early-20th century Germany ..read more
The Polyphony Blog
3w ago
Kate Quinn, Charlotte Gaukroger, and Tom Carter introduce Heavy Metal Therapy (HMT), a community psychology initiative that accounts for the diverse experiences of the metal music scene ..read more
The Polyphony Blog
1M ago
Using primary documents from Scottish archives, Alexandra Cowie traces the history of contraception and reproductive health in 1960s Scotland ..read more
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1M ago
Benjamin Gagnon Chainey highlights the current lag between the anglophone and francophone health humanities in Canada, and asks how to explain the fact that none of the seventeen existing health humanities teaching programs are French-speaking ..read more
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1M ago
In Part 5 of the Moving Bodies takeover, Emily Tupper applies the concept of performance to the intersection of sport and exercise sciences and medical humanities ..read more
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1M ago
In Part 4 of the Moving Bodies takeover, Megan Girdwood considers how dance has been interpreted in both pathological and therapeutic terms across medical narratives ..read more
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1M ago
Artist-poet Alec Finlay and artist-writer Louise Kenward consider the generative and activist roles of witness and patient-led medicine, in reference to Moving Mountains, Kenward's anthology of poetry, prose, essays and artwork exploring nature through a disabled perspective ..read more
The Polyphony Blog
1M ago
In Part 3 of the Moving Bodies takeover, Rebecca Olive and Clare Hickman unpack the entangled histories of sports and exercise sciences and the medical humanities ..read more
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1M ago
In Part 2 of the Moving Bodies takeover, Véronique Chance and Claire Warden explore the border crossing between sport and art practice ..read more