‘I am tired from all of these feelings’: Narrating suffering in the film Sick                      by Senka Božić-Vrbančić, Renata Kokanović, Jelena Kupsjak This article explores ‘the politics of sentimentality’ with specific reference to the documentary

Just published in AHHE vol 17 no.1   The seeing place: Talking theatre & medicine by Deborah & Joanna Bowman A Professor of Medical Ethics and a theatre director, also mother and daughter, talk about health, illness, suffering, performance and practice. Using the

‘Stories, narratives, scenarios in Medicine’ by Jan Parker ©Emma Barnard @PatientAsPaper in Representing Trauma; Honouring Broken Narratives Special Issue  Introduction There are occasions when ‘literary’ academic writing abuts and can profitably engage with other disciplines and other professional practices. Life-writing, archaeological

Honouring a life & narrative work: John’s story by Sara Ryan     The importance of witnessing broken narratives and somehow writing or representing these is matched by the challenges associated with trying to do this within a context of

 Editorial article by Renata Kokanović, Meredith Stone, The ‘Broken Narrative’ essays included in this issue open up a critical space for understanding and theorising illness narratives that defy a conventional cognitive ordering of the self as a bounded spatial and temporal entity.

Weathering a violent storm together – Witnessing and co-constructing meaning in collaborative engagement with those experiencing psychosis-related challenges by Lizette Nolte in Special Medical Humanities Issue: Representing Trauma; Honouring Broken Narratives Guest Editor : Deborah Bowman Guest Editor : Renata Kokanović

NEW AHHE SPECIAL ISSUE: REPRESENTING TRAUMA; HONOURING BROKEN NARRATIVES          http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ahha/17/1 Bodywork: Self-harm, trauma, and embodied expressions of pain Kesherie Gurung Self-harm, or self-mutilation, is generally viewed in academic literature as a pathological act, usually born out

 Special Medical Humanities Issue: Representing Trauma; Honouring Broken Narratives Editors: Deborah Bowman, Renata Kokanovic and Jan Parker Editorial: Stories, narratives, scenarios in Medicine  Jan Parker This Medical Humanities Special Issue critiques and reflects on narrative practices around medical, psychiatric and