Jade de Montserrat, Lay in bed, prone and bound, with compassionate assistance, interdependence, agency, 2021, watercolour and ink on paper, 20 x 20 cm. Image courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery.


Being Horizontal: a visual essay

will appear in: Art and the Critical Medical Humanities - Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities

Edited by Fiona Johnstone, Allison Morehead, and Imogen Wiltshire

Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming in 2025

This agenda-setting edited volume makes a forceful case for the contribution that art – its practices and its histories – can make to debates and developments in critical medical humanities today.

Whilst medical humanities previously emphasised an instrumental attitude towards art and art-making, recent work has opened up a dynamic space in which art can critically and imaginatively operate. With urgent attention paid to constructions of race, gender, class, sexuality and disability, the artists, art historians, and scholars in related fields represented within this volume address new and pressing questions about structures and experiences of health, medical knowledge, care, therapy, and clinical research and education.
 
Link to the volume here. 

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