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The Polyphony

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To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by @DurhamImh

Durham, UK Katılım Nisan 2011
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Claire Jeantils, Rong Huang, and Benjamin Dalton unravel the stories behind the International Narrative Neurology Network (INNN), a cross-sectoral network that investigates Narrative Neurology from a practical and theoretical perspective. thepolyphony.org/2026/01/29/int…
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Monica Ross uses her personal and clinical experience to explore how diagnostic language can clarify, constrain, and quietly shape the meaning of a life. thepolyphony.org/2026/01/28/whe…
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Julián Bohórquez and Ivory Day reflect on the importance of translating fundamental terms in philosophy of medicine into Spanish, as well as the value of importing Spanish terminology into the Anglophone discussion. thepolyphony.org/2026/01/20/med…
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Loïc Bourdeau discusses the #ENDOs project and the deployment of narrative tools to challenge the normalisation of endometriosis pain, empower those living with the disease, and educate health practitioners. thepolyphony.org/2026/01/14/end…
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Claire Turner and Jack Gann explore questions of personalised medicine, digital technologies, and prevalent health concerns in the exhibition You Choose. thepolyphony.org/2026/01/12/you…
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Dilip K. Das introduces an interdisciplinary framework for epidemic narratives in India by drawing on methods from literature, social theory, and public health. He explores how communities, writers, and scholars make sense of outbreak narratives. thepolyphony.org/2026/01/09/epi…
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MedHums 101: Leonora Gunn explores the idea of epistemic injustice, “a wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower” (Fricker 2007), as it relates to chronic illness. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/22/epi…
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In our next creative piece for the 'In Practice' project, Greg Hoghman explores disability, geography and mobility through his digital cartography titled Travels of a Disabled Person Who Does Not Drive in 'America's Finest City (2003-2025). thepolyphony.org/2025/12/18/car…
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Anuj Kumar brings together ecological vulnerability, multispecies care, and relational health in his reading of Shaunak Sen’s film All That Breathes. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/17/bre…
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Nicolas Barnett, Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams consider how issues of language and translation intersect with questions of power and identity in witness reports by healthcare professionals. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/08/mul…
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In the final of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Caroline Law and Harriet Cooper explores how stigma operates in relation to reproductive norms. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/05/rep…
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In the second of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Fay Dennis and Hannah Farrimond explore the contextually specific and contingent nature of stigma. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/04/sti…
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In the first of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Oli Williams, Gareth M. Thomas, Amy Chandler, and Tanisha Spratt introduce the concept of anti-stigma. thepolyphony.org/2025/12/03/ant…
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Meenakshi Srihari offers a critical examination of how art addressing antimicrobial resistance draws on familiar war and superhero metaphors, and shapes how we imagine our entanglement with microbes. thepolyphony.org/?p=27716
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