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How do you show genocide on screen without turning it into spectacle? Molly Lindberg on the animated flashbacks in Black Earth Rising and the ethics of representing the Rwandan genocide.
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Long before "lived experience" was a buzzword, asylum patients were writing it. Mila Daskalova on 19th-century asylum periodicals, where patients challenged doctors and turned to each other for support.
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Who gets to decide what a good breath feels like? Lindsay LeBlanc on the history of the ventilator and why patients’ own experience of breathing should count as real clinical knowledge.
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Gilded rib cages, spine-shaped exoskeletons: does Schiaparelli's couture reveal the body or replace it? Trisha D. Gupta on anatomy, fashion, and the dress as a "second organism."
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Bruce Conner's CROSSROADS turns 50. Justin Huwe on watching a nuclear blast repeat on screen, and what the film teaches us about trauma and bearing witness in an age of constant footage.
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Syphilis is the only disease Richard Tennant Cooper painted twice for Henry Wellcome. Elizabeth Saubestre on what these ca. 1912 images say about vision, blame, and the female body.
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"I apologize for my body." Caroline Hensley reads Samantha Irby's essay "Hysterical!" and asks who cleans up after our bodies, and why that care work stays invisible.
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When is not knowing a plant a sign of being "enlightened"? Tianyuan Huang on botanist Shirai MitsutarĹŤ and famine-relief flora in 1900s Japan, the second essay in our Plant Something series.
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In King of Chinatown (1939), Anna May Wong plays a surgeon who moves between Western surgery and her father's herbal medicine. Jenelle Troxell and Megan M. Ferry on the film's vision of care.
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From Neanderthal remains to CRISPR: Maud Belair reviews Rod Flower's Drugs: The Story of Pharmacology, a sweeping history of how medicines work and who gets access to them.
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How do you love someone who is suffering? Pauline Picot reviews Judy Sandler's memoir What Kind of Mother, about raising a son with bipolar disorder through addiction and recovery.
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New review on Synapsis: Heather Glenny reads Lisa Jean Moore's The Unknowable Body, a feminist sociologist's account of becoming a patient and caregiver inside the medical system she spent decades critiquing.
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Nine new pieces are now up on Synapsis: Schiaparelli's anatomical couture, Anna May Wong as a 1930s surgeon, famine plants in Meiji Japan, syphilis in early-1900s art, Bruce Conner's CROSSROADS at 50, and more.
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Check out our new article!!!
This essay asks us to reevaluate what immunity really means. Rather than seeing protection as seclusion from others, it looks at how care, connection, and interdependence sustain life.
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Another new post!!
In "Relational and Intercultural Understandings of Schizophrenia in A Life on Hold," David Lombard delves into Josie MĂ©ndez-Negrete's memoir about her son's schizophrenia experience.
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Seon Shim investigates how Extraordinary Attorney Woo is reshaping disability media through care, community, and connection.
Read it now on our website!!
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New article:
In “A Monument of Charity,” historian Thomas F. Rzeznik traces the 161-year history of St. Vincent’s Hospital in NYC. Maud Belaire’s review explores how faith, medicine, and service shaped catholic hospitals.
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New article up on SYNAPSIS!
Ashley Moyse, Director of the Columbia Character Cooperatives, writes about the Cooperatives' mission, Jonathan Swift's vision of the bee, and imagining a future for medicine of mutuality, discernment, and care. Read it here: medicalhealthhumanities.com/…
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Two new articles up on SYNAPSIS this Friday!
First, Jing Sun examines the year 1923, a critical moment in Japan-U.S. medical exchange in the years before WW2. How did American physicians regard their Japanese counterparts, and vice versa? Read it here:
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Next up, Sarah Roth discusses recovery from a double mastectomy, and the crucial supportive role of queer media (like FX's Dying for Sex and Miranda July's novel All Fours) and communities in their processes of self-fashioning. Read it here!
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