Podcasts by Medical Humanities podcast

LivingBodiesObjects: Changing the way we research from 2022-03-11T10:31:58

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 Humanities, Brandy Schilla...

Golem Girl: Disability and Embodiment with Riva Lehrer from 2022-02-25T16:01:32

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 this podcast here...

Loneliness, friendship and love in the office space from 2022-01-21T13:50:30

J. Rick Castañeda is a writer, director and producer (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1479268/?ref_=tt_ov_dr). His works have been around the world to festivals in London, Canada, Japan, and Romania, a...

Transplant and its imaginaries - December Special Issue from 2021-12-07T16:43:26

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) propo...

"We’re not broken": changing the conversation around autism with Eric Garcia from 2021-11-03T15:18:15

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, Augus...

Reflections on childhood trauma, creativity and mental well-being from 2021-10-19T10:44:18

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 ...

Special Issue on Global Genetic Fictions: Decolonising genetics through literature from 2021-09-01T16:08:59

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. ...

Medicine’s Disability Blind Spot: Vaccine Roll-out, Privilege, and Access from 2021-08-11T15:52:21

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 anesthesiol...

Going Medieval: Historical Comparisons of Plague and Pandemic from 2021-07-15T12:30:37

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 include...

Representation is Power: What it means to be a LGBTQ in government from 2021-06-08T17:19

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 represen...

The Female Gaze in Film as seen by Sarah Gavron from 2021-05-26T10:10:26

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...

Generation Covid: Education, Access, and the Long Shadow of Pandemic Trauma from 2021-05-11T16:47:29

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...

Biomorphic: The life of an Artist with Cancer from 2021-04-21T11:06:39

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. Listen

Designing for the Body: SCALED wearable technology from 2021-04-06T10:58:46

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities, Brandy Schillace, speaks to Natalie Kerres, designer of SCALED and a recent graduate of Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art....

The fight against sexism in science: International Women’s Day featuring scientist Rita Colwell from 2021-03-03T11:24:11

Rita Colwell is one of the top scientists in America: the groundbreaking microbiologist who discovered how cholera survives between epidemics and the former head of the National Science Foundation....

Health Justice with Dr. Oni Blackstock from 2021-02-24T15:51:45

In this podcast, Brandy Schillace, Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief, interviews Dr. Oni Blackstock, physician and Director of Health Justice Dr. Blackstock speaks about the influence of her mothe...

What becomes of us: health disparity in pandemic from 2021-01-22T06:03:19

Dr. Josh Mugele, a disaster and emergency medicine physician, speaks about health disparity during crises like the current COVID pandemic.

Read the blog post containing the transcript of this pod...

Hearing Happiness: Jaipreet Virdi on deafness, accessibility, and her latest book from 2021-01-05T15:40:37

Jaipreet Virdi’s latest book, Hearing Happiness raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Read the blog post:

https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-hum...

Heart in Medicine, History and Culture from 2020-12-05T00:16:22

Therese Feiler, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, describes the interdisciplinary Medical Humanities special issue, bringing together cardiac surgeons, cultural histo...

Accessibility, Creation, Community: an interview with Cheryl Green from 2020-11-18T15:22:33

What would it mean if, instead of being “add-ons,” accessibility tools like captions and transcripts were built into a project from the ground up? What if instead of thinking about accessibility as...

Finding ways forward for LGBTQ+ health access from 2020-10-26T18:30:56

In today’s podcast, Dr. Henry Ng, MD MPH, Cleveland Clinic, speaks with Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities, Brandy Schillace, about issues of LGBTQ+ and health accessibility. Already a difficult...

The Dignity of Help: Sara Hendren’s What a Body Can Do from 2020-09-10T16:35:40

Sarah Hendren’s book, What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, looks at design and disability at all scales: prosthetics, furniture, architecture, urban planning, and more, to examine criti...

Accessibility isn’t a new coat of paint: Chris Higgins on his film ACCESS from 2020-08-21T10:26:57

How do we make something really and truly accessible? Chris Higgins talks about what led to his 2019 short film Access, and the fact that accessibility isn’t about making a different product for th...

Where race, disparity, and pandemic collide: COVID-19 USA from 2020-07-01T08:59:16

Dr. Oni Blackstock joins us to speak about social justice, Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights and the way the COVID-19 crisis has unequally affected marginalized communities. Dr. Blackstock is Assist...

Human bodies of WWII, beyond the battlefield from 2020-05-21T10:44:06

In this podcast, we discuss the June Special issue, "Beyond the Battlefield" and the impact of medical crisis and treatment on non-combatant bodies - still so relevant in today’s COVID-19 crises. M...

Disability visibility and the Covid-19 crisis from 2020-04-28T16:17:19

Medical Humanities Editor Brandy Schillace speaks to Alice Wong, a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant based in San Francisco. She is the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibilit...

Coronavirus - bodies, environments and the spread of disease from 2020-03-20T17:58:26

How do diseases like coronavirus get their start? How does pollution affect the microbiome? Dr. Annamaria Carusi, who was as an academic in medical humanities for several years and is now a priv...

Every woman and girl counts from 2020-03-04T17:25

In this podcast Mr Matt Jackson, director of the UK, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) talks about current health inequalities that still face girls and women on a global scale. He revists the...

Health, Humanity and Dr. Frankenstein from 2020-02-05T15:58:05

Audrey Shafer, MD, directs Medicine&the Muse at Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. She joins Brandy to talk about the use of Frankenstein to trouble the boundaries between science, medicine,...

Stories of guilt and redemption: the cinema of Atom Egoyan from 2020-01-13T09:56:27

In this podcast Dr Khalid Ali talks to acclaimed Canadian director Atom Egoyan at the 41st edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) where Egoyan's latest film 'Guest of honour' sc...

2040: A personal prescription for Global Health from 2019-12-05T15:04

In this podcast, award-winning Australian film maker, Damon Gameau talks about his new film '2040' which explores what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced solutions that are ...

Using arts to campaign against gender-based violence from 2019-11-20T14:33:41

Nahid Toubia is a Sudanese surgeon and women's health rights activist, specialising in research into female genital mutilation (FGM). In this podcast, she talks about her career as a woman surge...

Making Space from 2019-10-16T12:16:50

Ciara Breathnach (@CiaraBreath) is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is a current Irish research Council Laureate holder and her research focuses on Irish soc...

The Power of Poetry from 2019-09-10T15:39:15

In this podcast, Clinical Psychiatrist and poet Owen Lewis (Columbia) and Sue Spencer, Associate Editor at Medical Humanities, discuss both the power and “disruption” of poetry in and out of hea...

Nurturing artistic talent in children with autism. A conversation with Hana Makki from 2019-08-23T09:10:05

In this podcast, film maker Hana Makki revisits her memories of making the documentary film ‘As one: The Autism Project’ working with ten children with Autism and their families. The film project w...

Creating father-son bonds through film: Tom Browne and his son Frankie from 2019-08-01T09:05:25

In this podcast, Tom and his son Frankie discuss how their experience of making short films together supported their relationship as a father and son. Tom talks about the films ‘Bokx’, ‘Beyond’,...

Bridges of hope: Supporting women and youth through economic empowerment from 2019-07-21T16:11:04

In this podcast, Dr El Beih, Egypt’s country director of Drosos Foundation talks about her journey from a hospital doctor to becoming a pioneer in the use of art and creativity in healing. She w...

Death and dying, Italian style from 2019-07-04T09:50:41

In this podcast Valeria Golino talks about end of life issues; assisted suicide, the common practice of some Italian people withholding the true diagnosis of terminal illness from their affected re...

History Lessons: Immigration, the NHS and fear of the other from 2019-06-08T15:43:24

On today’s podcast, Professor Roberta Bivins, Centre for the History of Medicine University of Warwick, speaks to unfounded fears of immigrants underpinning rhetoric surrounding the inception of...

Making History Matter: Julian Simpson on migration, social issues and the role of history from 2019-06-02T15:32:04

Freelance author and historian Julian Simpson, author of Migrant Architects of the NHS, joins Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities Brandy Schillace (@bschillace) to discuss the role and respons...

A New Outlook on Psychosomatics? from 2019-05-17T13:43:31

Join us for a preview of the new June special issue on Biopolitics, Psychosomatics and “participating bodies" and read it on the MH website: https://mh.bmj.com/.

June's issue is specially dedicat...

Interrogating Medicine: a podcast on humanities and pain from 2019-04-26T16:30:14

Medical Humanities editor-in-chief, Brandy Schillace, speaks to Dr Sara Wasson about her work on chronic pain and gothic transplantation.

For more information read: https://mh.bmj.com/content/44/...

The Weaponizing of Religion against Healthcare: An Interview with John Fugelsang from 2019-04-11T11:33:47

Increasingly in the US, elements of religion have crept into medical and political discourse. The Bible has been invoked repeatedly, for instance, in discussion of women’s right to abortion, sam...

Daniel LaForest on reaching beyond medicine to live experience of health from 2019-03-27T17:11:30

Medical Humanities editor-in-chief Brandy Schillace interviews Medical Humanities board member Daniel LaForest on his understanding of medical humanities and storytelling.

United in film: psychiatrist Dr Nabil Elkot recommends drama therapy for patients and doctors from 2019-03-13T15:57:59

Medical Humanities Film Correspondent Khalid Ali interviews Dr Nabil Elkot, a doctor who uses art in his psychotherapeutic practice. This interview comes from Medfest, the medical film festival....

What society do we live in? Dr Gavin Francis on precarity, vulnerability and narrative from 2019-03-06T11:30:59

Medical Humanities Editor-in-Chief Brandy Schillace interviews doctor and author Gavin Francis about housing and medical outcomes, his work as a travel writer, and the influence of his medical p...

Prescribing Art. Victoria Hume, Director of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance from 2019-02-07T15:07:39

What is the future of "prescribing art"? Brandy Schillace interviews Victoria Hume, Director of the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance, about the role of culture, arts, and health. Related Med...

The Immigrants' Case of Shakespeare: a discussion about borders and health effects of separation from 2019-01-29T14:34:52

The 400-year-old Shakespearean speech is the start of a conversation about the immigrants' situation in the US and the UK today, as well as the health effects on children suffering separation from ...

Medicine meets cinema: Dr Omneya Okasha’s journey from dentistry to film making from 2019-01-10T14:56:34

Dr Omneya Okasha is a dentist who had a passion for film since early childhood. Bonding with characters on screen took her on a journey of self-discovery, personal growth, and wonder. After a ca...

ICE Immigration and Health: Eugene Gu on the medical consequence of politics from 2019-01-02T13:18:20

Medical Humanities editor-in-chief Brandy Schillace interviews Dr Eugene Gu about the responsibilities of medical practitioners in light of ICE and the immigration crisis in the US. Stay in touch w...

The shape of Medical Humanities in South Africa from 2018-11-06T14:12:19

What kinds of projects in medical humanities are happening in the Global South? Today we speak to two of the guest editors for a South African Special Issue (Carla Tsampiras and Nolwazi Mkhwanaz...

Let's talk sex, medicine and film. Reporting from Egypt Medfest 2018 from 2018-10-17T16:27:31

Mina Elnaggar, an Egyptian doctor and film-maker, outlines the first Arab forum for medicine in film, Egypt Medfest, in conversation with Medical Humanities Film Correspondent Khalid Ali.

Read th...

One Year Anniversary, MH editor from 2018-07-13T12:48:28

In this podcast, Associate Editor Angela Woods interviews Brandy Schillace, Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Humanities journal, at the one-year anniversary of her editorship. Brandy talks about t...

Talk to her: Arab women unveil taboos from 2018-02-16T22:39:42

Three film industry women talk mental health and violence. ‘Mamsous- Deranged’ is a short film about mental health and well-being through the story of three people, who share their experiences with...

How do we find meaning when we are going to die? from 2017-11-02T17:55:16

Dr Khalid Ali, Medical Humanities film and media correspondent, interviews Dr Amy Hardie at the Sudan Independent Film Festival where she held a training workshop for film students.Dr Amy Hardie is...

Psychiatry, old age and relationships in Professor Robert Abrams’ words from 2017-09-27T10:27:20

Family relationships, traumas from childhood echo in love life, dementia and geriatrics. In this broad interview, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Robert Abrams (Weill Cornell University, New York,...

Auditory hallucinations, agoraphobia and extremism as portrayed by actor Ahemed Magdy from 2017-04-27T14:10:33

In this podcast, the Screening Room editor of Medical Humanities Khalid Ali explores the role of film in shining a light on mental illlness, dysfnctional families and the rise of religious fanatici...

Living and ‘loving life’ in a sanatorium: interview with Radu Jude, Romanian director from 2017-03-06T17:10:28

‘Scarred hearts’ is a thought-provoking semi-autobiographical film based on the period Max Belceher (Romanian author) spent in a sanatorium in 1934 recovering from Pott’s disease (Tuberculosis of t...

Khaled Abol Naga: Acting as a calling and social activism from 2016-09-14T14:51:21

In this podcast, Khalid Ali meets Khaled Abol Naga, one of the most popular faces in Egypt and with strong links to the UK. He prefers to be introduced as an “actor”, but is also a well-known film...

"To age or not to age", Tom Kinninmont about his co-writing "The Carer" from 2016-07-29T13:29:30

In this podcast, Tom Kinninmont, co-writer of the British film 'The Carer', tells Khalid Ali, Medical Humanities Screening Room Editor, the details of the picture which brings Parkinson's disease, ...

'Bernie and Rebecca’ is Melissa Kent's directorial debut: "a lifetime of emotions in 15 minutes" from 2016-07-08T16:10:02

In this podcast, Khalid Ali speaks to Melissa Kent, Hollywood film editor, about her debut as a director with "Bernie and Rebecca", at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which explores "a l...

The Nightingales: Sudan's First women band: music for healing and hope from 2016-06-17T10:40:38

The three Sudanese sisters The Nightingales (or 'Al-balabil'), who have been singing for 45 years, are doing their first world tour.

On their stop for a concert in London, at the end of May, they...

Coma through the eyes of a doctor and relatives: interview with Anu Menon, director of 'Waiting' from 2016-03-15T17:04:56

In this podcast, the director Anu Menon talks to the Medical Humanities' Screening Room Editor Khalid Ali about her latest film 'Waiting'. The film explores the relationship between doctor and pati...

Film ‘Waiting’ - lives united by coma: interview with co-writer James Ruzicka from 2016-03-10T17:04:04

In this podcast, Dr James Ruzicka talks about the connection between the story of the film 'Waiting', which he co-wrote, and the real life of a doctor. ‘Waiting’ is directed by Anu Menon and explor...

Producer Simon Field invites to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s season of films and installations in UK from 2016-02-23T11:35:51

In this podcast, Khalid Ali talks to Simon Field, producer of "Cemetery of Splendour", a film about a lonesome middle-age housewife who tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls into a hallu...

Sharif Hatata: doctor, novelist, film critic about medicine, doctor strike and "Egypt's health" from 2016-01-08T12:58:09

The 93 year-old retired doctor Sharif Hatata, Egyptian political activist born in the UK, tells MH Screening Room editor Khalid Ali about his novels, "resistance", junior doctors strike, "poor heal...

Bringing cinema to those with visual impairment, reporting from the Panorama of the European Film from 2015-12-21T16:54:19

The president of The Panorama of the European Film, Marianne Khoury, explores the new possibilities opened by the last edition of the festival in Cairo, including the new technologies allowing cine...

Psychological coercion in UK government workfare programmes from 2015-05-15T15:41:41

How is positive psychology being used as a coercive strategy in UK government workfare programmes? What effect does this have on the people who receive unemployment benefits, and how have psycholog...

Mohamed Khan, Egyptian screenwriter and director, on what clinicians can gain from his films from 2014-10-23T12:42:52

Khalid Ali, screening room editor at Medical Humanities, talks to Mohamed Khan, screen writer and actor, and one of the leading directors of of neo-realist cinema in 80s Egypt.

They discuss his r...

The Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2014: The mad scientist from 2014-09-15T17:11:40

Khalid Ali, Screening Room editor, reports from the Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference in Exeter.

Here he speaks to Laura Habbe, a PhD student at Trinity College Dublin. Her research focu...

The Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2014 from 2014-09-15T17:07:49

Khalid Ali, Screening Room editor, reports from the Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference in Exeter. Here he talks with Sarah Jones, a final year PhD student affiliated with the Centre for Me...

The Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference 2014: Education and medical humanities from 2014-09-15T17:05:26

Khalid Ali, Screening Room editor, reports from the Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference in Exeter.

Here he speaks to James Fallon, a specialist registrar in General Adult Psychiatry workin...

Welcome to Medical Humanities from 2014-04-14T15:17:33

In this first podcast from the journal Medical Humanities, editor Deborah Bowman introduces members of her new editorial team: editor of The Screening Room, Khalid Ali, and editor of The Reading...