Dispatches · No. 03 · Recommendation ·
Queer Medical Humanities
A special collection in the Journal of Medical Humanities maps an emerging field where queer studies and the critical medical humanities meet.
Edited by Maurice Nagington, Chase Ledin and Benjamin Dalton, the collection brings together scholars working at the intersection of critical medical humanities and queer studies, to show the emergence of what the editors call a queer medical humanities. Its articles take up medical authority and biopower, colonialism, disability and neurodivergent justice, and the ethics of care.
Six articles have appeared so far, on subjects including queer pedagogies in psychoanalytic training, trans-inclusive perinatal care informed by Indigenous knowledge, queer bodies and the life course, and the history of medical photography in sexology. Contributions are by invitation.
A note from the lab
Sexual and gender diversity in cancer care, and queer experiences of ageing and endings, are central threads in our work. This collection is valuable to us because it approaches these questions through the humanities rather than through clinical data alone, examining how care, identity and power shape queer lives in medicine.