The Medical Humanities podcast offers the latest discussions in the field of medical humanities. Each episode features in-depth interviews with experts talking about a broad range of topics in the field. The podcast transcript is also available on the journal’s blog. Medical Humanities - mh.bmj.com - is an international journal from the BMJ Group and the Institute of Medical Ethics (IME) publishing studies on the history of medicine, cultures of medicine, disability, gender, bioethics & medical education. Stay ahead in your field by tuning into our expert discussions and accessing cutting-edge content. Podcast hosted by: Dr Brandy Schillace, Ed...
Latest episodes
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51 min
Looking further than what you can see: non-visual design, with Simon Dogger
The design studio of Simon Dogger focusses upon stimulating equity, connection and innovation. He is able to look further than what you can see and not only because he is blind. In…
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31 min
The industrial tragedy at Bhopal through the LivingBodiesObjects’ digital storytelling
The 1984 Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, is recognised as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The Wellcome-funded LivingBodiesObjects project has been working with…
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37 min
Humanising Care for Older People Living with Dementia - Teun Toebes in conversation with Khalid Ali
Teun Toebes, humanitarian activist, in conversation with Khalid Ali. In this podcast, Teun talks about his book 'The Housemates' (The Housemates by Teun Toebes, Laura Vroomen | Wat…
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22 min
Making Modern Maternity
Introducing their forthcoming special issue of Medical Humanities, Drs. Whitney Wood, Heather Love, Jerika Sanderson, and Karen Weingarten discuss the political significance of “ma…
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25 min
Black and Brown in Bioethics: A new Medical Humanities Research Forum
In this podcast, our Editor-in-chief Brandy Schillace sits down with Matimba Swana and Kumeri Bandara of Black and Brown in Bioethics to discuss how they started, why it is importa…
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25 min
Scenario Planning, Healthcare, and the Humanities
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…
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26 min
Poetry, Disability, and the Power of Medical Humanities with Kimberly Campanello
Making connections through poetry, disability, and medical humanities. Brandy Schillace, Medical Humanities' Editor-in-Chief, interviews Kimberly Campanello, Associate Professor of…
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30 min
Virtual Reality and Disability: Supportive learning through VR
Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film, University of Leeds; Wellcome funded LivingBodiesObjects project David Tabron, Blueberry Academy speak to Brandy Schi…
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37 min
Bittersweet Potatoes: Noura Kevorkian, documentary film maker, reflects on the plight, and resilience of Syria…
In this podcast, Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, interviews Noura Kevorkian, a Syrian/ Lebanese documentary film-maker. Noura Kevorkian discusses the personal and prof…
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28 min
Featuring the Nocturnist’s SHAME IN MEDICINE: The Lost Forest
Medical Humanities, editor-in-chief Brandy Schillace speaks to Emily Silverman, MD, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF)creator of The Nocturnist podcast, and Luna Dol…
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24 min
Immersive and Interactive: Accessibility Theatre and LivingBodiesObjects
Editor's in Chief of Medical Humanities, Brandy Schillace, interviews Amelia DeFalco, University of Leeds and Steve Byrne Director/Chief exec of the Interplay Theatre about the Int…
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41 min
From Voiceless to a Voice Representing the Deaf Community and British Sign Language (BSL)
Dr Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent, interviews British documentary filmmaker, Edward Lovelace. They discuss his film ‘’Name me Lawand’’, a rapturous portrait of a deaf Kur…
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23 min
Finding the Right Words, a book on Grief, Dementia, and Literature
The moving story of an English professor studying neurology in order to understand and come to terms with her father's death from Alzheimer's. Brandy Schillace (Medical Humanities'…
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26 min
Infectious Disease Epidemics and Inequality
Join us for a fascinating discussion about the ethics of care, and most especially the way structural racism and impediments to access heightened existing inequalities during both…
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27 min
Body Talk: “Corporeal Pedagogies”
In this month's podcast, Brandy Schillace talks to Dr Sally Waite and Dr Olivia Turner, of Newcastle University. They discuss "corporeal pedagogy", a form of learning and teaching…
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37 min
Posthumanism and the LivingBodiesObject Project
LivingBodiesObjects is a 3-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust designed to test and extend the boundaries of Medical Humanities research. Today we talk to Stuart Murray and A…
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28 min
Global Health Humanities, a June Special Issue
Editor-in-chief of Medical Humanities, Brandy Schillace, interviews Narin Hassan and Jessica Howell about their innovative and interdisciplinary approach to health humanities. Nari…
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36 min
Bradford Tales Authentically and Poetically Portrayed in Film by Clio Barnard
Clio Barnard is multi-award winning British Film writer, director and producer. In this conversation with Medical Humanities' film and media correspondent, Khalid Ali, she revisits…
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33 min
LivingBodiesObjects: Changing the way we research
LivingBodiesObjects is a 3-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust designed to test and extend the boundaries of Medical Humanities research. Editor-in-chief of Medical Humanitie…
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30 min
Golem Girl: Disability and Embodiment with Riva Lehrer
We are excited to present Riva Lehrer, artist and author, and her book GOLEM GIRL, about disability, embodiment, joy, and becoming herself. Read the blog with the transcription of…