We are excited to launch the Reading Bodies ‘takeover’ of The Polyphony, ‘a web platform that aims to stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities’, hosted by the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.
In the opening piece today, Katharine Murphy introduces the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses what historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contribute to the medical humanities: Historical Narratives of Illness in the Multilingual Medical Humanities – the polyphony
The ‘takeover’ presents five connected pieces, each of which will be published on consecutive days this week (20th to 24th October 2025), and is edited by Jordan McCullough. We invite you to follow the series!
More information is available on our Publications page.
