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Medical Humanities Podcast
Medical Humanities is a leading international journal that reflects the whole field of medical humanities. Medical Humanities aims to encourage a high academic standard for this evolving and developing subject and to enhance professional and public discussion. It features original articles relevant to the delivery of healthcare, the formulation of public health policy, the experience of being ill and of caring for those who are ill, as well as case conferences, educational case studies, book, film, and art reviews, editorials, correspondence, news and notes. To ensure international relevance Medical Humanities has Editorial Board members from all around the world. http://mh.bmj.com/
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Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Tuesday Dec 07, 2021
Brandy interviews Donna McCormack about the December Special Issue, Transplant and its Imaginaries.
Donna McCormack, Chancellor'S Fellow and Senior Lecturer (with co-editor Magrit Shildrick) proposes new understandings of the limits and possible extensions of organ and tissue transplantation.
The Special Issue of Medical Humanities is available here: https://mh.bmj.com/content/47/4
Read the related blog post (with the transcription of this podcast) here: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/12/09/december-special-issue-podcast-transplantation-and-its-imaginaries
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Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Wednesday Nov 03, 2021
Join us on this episode of the Medical Humanities Podcast as Brandy Schillace speaks with Eric Garcia, author of WE’RE NOT BROKEN: Changing the Autism Conversation (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, August 3, 2021).
Eric Garcia is a journalist based in Washington, D.C.
Read the related blog post (with the transcription of the whole podcast) here: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/11/05/eric-garcia/
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
In this podcast, Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri (Swedish film makers) reflect on their documentary film 'The most beautiful boy in the world' (2021) and their professional relationship with the film's protagonist, Björn Andrésen. Björn came to international fame at the age of 15 when Italian director Luchino Visconti cast him as Tadzio, the young boy in his film 'Death in Venice' (1971). Kristina and Kristian comment on the long-term impact of childhood trauma on the mental well-being of Swedish artists such as Björn Andrésen and Astrid Lindgren. They comment on the need for clear rules of engagement and professional boundaries between artists and executive managers to avoid physical and psychological exploitation of those artists.
Related blog post with transcript: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/10/14/reflections-on-childhood-trauma-creativity-and-mental-well-being/
Other related links:
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2019/08/20/healing-by-art-almodovar-champions-arts-for-health-and-well-being/
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2018/02/13/two-sides-coin/
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/10/23/a-woman-on-the-verge-of-suicide/
https://mh.bmj.com/content/45/3/235 https://mh.bmj.com/content/43/1/30
https://mh.bmj.com/content/34/2/110 https://mh.bmj.com/content/43/2/86
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
Wednesday Sep 01, 2021
This podcast features Clare Barker, Associate Professor in English Literature, University of Leeds, and guest editor of our Medical Humanities June Special Issue for 2021: Global Genetic Fictions.
Read more on the Medical Humanities website: https://mh.bmj.com/content/47/2
Read the transcript of this podcast in the Medical Humanities blog (https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/09/02/clare-barker-global-genetic-fictions).
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
An outlook at how disabled lives have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and, in particular, by the current vaccine roll-out. Alice Wong, a disabled activist, and Alyssa Burgart, an anesthesiologist and ethicist at Stanford University, tell Medical Humanities' Editor-in-Chief, Brandy Schillace, how disabled lives have been overlooked in this crisis, as the very systems and designs of medicine cater to the able-bodied.
Read the transcript on the Medical Humanities blog (https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/08/12/medicines-disability-blind-spot-privilege-access-and-the-continued-vaccine-roll-out).
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Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Medical Humanities' Editor-in-Chief, Brandy Schillace, talks to Dr. Eleanor Janega, a medieval historian, about comparisons between COVID-19 and the Black Death.
Read the blog post, which includes the transcript of the podcast, here: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/07/15/going-medieval-historical-comparisons-of-plague-and-pandemic/
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities, Brandy Schillace, speaks to Brian Sims, an openly gay LGBTQ activist, Pennsylvania State Representative, and civil rights attorney about the power of representation, and what minority groups offer to better governance.
Read the related blog with this podcast's transcript: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/06/10/celebrating-pride-month-with-brian-sims
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Sarah Gavron talks to our film and media correspondent, Khalid Ali, about her passion for telling stories about marginalised women from diverse backgrounds in her films.
Read the blog post, which includes the transcript of the podcast, here: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/05/27/the-female-gaze-in-film-as-seen-by-sarah-gavron
Tuesday May 11, 2021
Tuesday May 11, 2021
David Perry is a freelance journalist covering politics, history, education, and disability rights with bylines at CNN, NYT, Atlantic, Guardian and many more. He and his food-scientist wife live in the Twin Cities with their children, one of whom has Down syndrome, and Perry also plays in an Irish rock band.
Today on the podcast, David talks about access and education under COVID-19. What does it mean to really provide free and fair education to all?
Read the related blog post, which includes the transcript of this podcast:
https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/05/12/generation-covid-education-access-and-the-long-shadow-of-pandemic-trauma
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities, Brandy Schillace, speaks to Arabella Proffer, an artist whose work combines the history of medicine with biomorphic abstraction about life, art, and cancer.
Read the related blog post, which includes the transcript of this podcast: https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2021/04/21/life-art-cancer-living-to-the-fullest