‘Body of Art’ conceived and edited by Phaidon Editors (Phaidon, 2015). A naked arm entices readers into it. The partial illustration chosen as a cover to Body of Art is a detail from one of Robert Mapplethorpe’s self-portraits (dated 1975), in which an intriguing, probably naked young man unfailingly captures Read more…
‘War, Art and Surgery: The work of Henry Tonks & Julia Midgley’ edited by Samuel J.M.M Alberti (London: Royal College of Surgeons, 2014). ‘The only people with a right look are those who can do something […] the rest are voyeurs.’ To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First Read more…
We are pleased to offer Phaidon‘s (2015) beautiful edited collection entitled ‘Body of Art‘. Expressions of interest are welcome from across the medical humanities. ‘Body of Art’ is the first book to focus exclusively on the body in art, providing not only a complete history of how the human form has been represented Read more…
What is and should be the role of narrative in the medical humanities? Responding to Angela Woods’ 2011 paper The limits of narrative, Dr Claire McKechnie (Glasgow Centre for Population Health) advances the discussion in her recent article for the BMJ Medical Humanities journal “Anxieties of communication: the limits of Read more…