Publication Highlights

Our staffs' publication highlights include transformative volumes of essays; influential journal special issues for leading disciplinary journals from Body and Society to Postmedieval; and risk-taking, high-profile articles bringing to bear humanities perspectives on science and medicine in top-rated journals from Consciousness and Cognition to Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.

Books & Chapters

Key books and book chapters published by IMH Staff and Affiliates.

Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives (Bernini, 2021)

Bernini integrates models, problems, and interpretive frameworks to make a case for Beckett’s modeling practice of a vast array of processes.

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (Powell & Saunders, 2021)

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the contexts of the medieval and early modern periods.

GeoHumanities and Health (Atkinson & Hunt, 2019)

This volume illustrates the benefits of humanities-inspired approaches in understanding and confronting historical and recent health-related challenges.

The Recovery Narrative: Politics and Possibilities of a Genre (Woods, Hart, & Spandler, 2022)

This paper offers an interdisciplinary, critical medical humanities analysis of the politics and possibilities of Recovery Narrative.

Journal of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Varieties of Agency and Interaction in Writers’ Experiences of their Characters’ Voices (Foxwell, Alderson-Day, Fernyhough, & Woods, 2020)

The authors present results of a survey of professional writers run in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities (Macnaughton, 2020)

This special issue article illustrates the rich potential of the subjects of breath and breathlessness within body studies.

Living in the Mo(ve)ment: An Ethnographic Exploration of Hospice Patients’ Experiences of Participating in Tai Chi (Bradshaw & Phoenix, 2020)

The authors explore outpatients’ lived experiences of hospice-based Tai Chi in relation to mindfulness.

Queer Music in the Queen’s Hall: Teleny and Decadent Musical Geographies at the Fin de Siècle (Riddell, 2020)

This article examines the significance of music and musical performance in Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal (1893).

Doing More with Movement: Constituting Healthy Publics in Movement Volunteering Programmes (Tupper, Atkinson, & Pollard, 2020)

The paper explores the newest practices of fitness through the movement volunteering programme ‘GoodGym’, in relation to the concept of ‘healthy publics’.

Traumatic Landscapes: Two Geographies of Addiction (Proudfood, 2019)

This article considers the traumatic landscape that harms its inhabitants, proposing it as one way of understanding how addiction is related to place.

Medievalism and the Medical Humanities (McKinstry & Saunders, 2017)

This issue aims to suggest the creative and critical potential of medical humanities in relation to medieval studies, and the possibilities of new methodologies.

Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies

Journal Articles

Key journal articles and special issues published by IMH Staff and Affiliates.