A selection of key and recent publications on health and medical humanities.
Health biographies: narrative case studies of health, sexualities and inclusion in the pandemic age
Published on 1 September 2025.
Written by Deborah Lupton and Kerryn Drysdale in Culture, Health and Sexuality.
Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities
Published on 13 June 2022.
Edited by Alan Bleakley.
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
Published on 26 February 2021.
Edited by Anne Whitehead, Angela Woods in Edinburgh University Press.
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InspirE5: a participatory, internationally informed framework for health humanities curriculum in health professions education.
Published on 24 June 2022.
Written by Sandra E. Carr, Anna Harris, Karen Scott, Mary Ani-Amponsah, Claire Hooker, Brid Phillips, Farah Noya, Nahal Mavaddat, Daniel M. Vuillermin, Steve Reid and Pamela Brett-Maclean in BMC Medical Journal.
Health Humanities Curriculum and Evaluation in Health Professions Education: A Scoping Review.
Published on 10 November 2021.
Written by Sandra E. Carr, Farah Noya, Brid Phillips, Anna Harris, Karen Scott, Claire Hooker, Nahal Mavaddat, Mary Ani-Amponsah, Daniel M. Vuillermin, Steve Reid, and Pamela Brett-Maclean in BMC Medical Journal.
The Quick, the Dead and the Anatomised: How a dissection drawing morphed into an online event.
Published on 26 February 2021.
Written by Jac Soarsa in Synapsis.
Medical Humanities Research Showcase: The Emergence of a New Trans-Disciplinary Field in a Time of Precarity.
Published on 2 November 2022.
Written by Karin Sellberg, Elizabeth Stephens, Anna Efstathiadou, Suja Pillai, Kazuki Yamada & Beck Wise in Continuum.
A Once-in-a-Century Crisis Can Help Educate Doctors.
Published on 10 April 2021.
Written by Molly Worthen in The New York Times.
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Australasian Health and Medical Humanities Network Launch and Inaugural Symposium.
Published 28 June 2021.
Written by Elizabeth Stephens, Claire Hooker, Keren Hammerschlag, Sandra Carr, and Karin Sellberg in The Polyphony.
Feeling Remote: COVID-19 in an Isolated State.
Published on 15 May 2020.
Written by Brid Phillips in Synapsis.
COVID-19 Special Issue: Introduction: A Letter from the Emergency Room.
Published on 15 May 2020.
Written by Rishi Goyal in Synapsis.
The Medical Humanities: A Brief Introduction.
Published May 2008.
Written by Claire Hooker in the Australian Family Physician.