Podcast by Clare Barker and Lynn Wray The 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, is recognised as the world’s worst industrial disaster. It has killed around 25,000 people to date, and the health of thousands of families in Bhopal continues to be affected by a groundwater supply contaminated by toxic chemicals from the now abandoned […]
Category: Podcasts
Humanising Care for Older People Living with Dementia: Teun Toebes in conversation with Khalid Ali
Podcast with Tuen Toebes In this podcast Teun Toebes reflects on how, as a 21-year old nursing student, he wanted to know more about the life of older people living with dementia in a care home in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Moving in as one of the housemate in a care home, and not as […]
Making Modern Maternity
Eds. Whitney Wood, Heather Love, Jerika Sanderson, and Karen Weingarten From the early 1800s through the twenty-first century, pregnancy, childbirth, and maternal experiences have been constructed as “modern”—or alternatively positioned as traditional, antiquated, or somewhere in between—at multiple sites and across multiple forms of media, including expert advice, advertisements, popular magazines and newspapers, fiction, television, […]
Podcast with Matimba Swana and Kumeri Bandara
Podcast with Matimba Swana EIC Brandy Schillace speaks to Matimba Swana and Kumeri Bandara about the Black and Brown in Bioethics program, and working harder to bring ECR scholars into print. TRANSCRIPT SCHILLACE: Hello and welcome to the Medical Humanities Podcast. This is Brandy Schillace, your host and the Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities […]
Scenario Planning, Healthcare, and the Humanities
Podcast with Matt Finch and Matthew Molineux In this podcast, Brandy Schillace (EIC) and Cristina Hanganu-Bresch (Blog and Associate Editor) talk to Matt Finch and Matthew Molineux about how scenario planning can help inform decisions about healthcare and the role of narrative in building scenarios that teach and humanize the health professions. You can also […]
On Poetry, Disability, and the Power of Medical Humanities
A Discussion with Kimberly Campanello Kimberly Campanello, an academic, creative writer, and poet, was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s in 2021. She has been awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant by Arts Council England to support her writing of chronic illness and disability. Campanello is presently Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds, and […]
Podcast with Stuart Murray and David Tabron
Podcast with Stuart Murray and David Tabron In this episode, Brandy speaks to Stuart Murray and David Tabron. David works for Blueberry Academy, a business that operates in special educational needs. “We’re a training provider, a post-16 training provider. And we also operate in health and social care,” David explains. Blueberry Academy was set up […]
Bittersweet Potatoes: Noura Kevorkian, Documentary Film Maker, Reflects on the Plight and Resilience of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Interview with Noura Kevorkian by Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent In this podcast, Noura Kevorkian discusses the personal and professional journey of her award-winning documentary ‘Batata’, its impact on the film’s protagonists, and how the film advocates for the rights of refugees around the world. Noura Kevorkian is a Syrian/ Lebanese documentary […]
Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest
Podcast with Luna Dolezal and Emily Silverman In today’s podcast, we look at the lasting consequences of shame in Medicine with Nocturnist creator Emily Silverman and Professor Luna Dolezal. Emily Silverman, MD is an internal medicine physician in San Francisco, Assistant Volunteer Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and […]
Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health
Podcast with Brandy Schillace David Brown interviewed Brandy Schillace on the Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health podcast about how she came to be a writer and to edit the Medical Humanities journal, and her vision for the journal and for the field of Medical Humanities as a whole. Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health […]