What happens when we look past the "good glow" of charity to critically analyse its role in public healthcare?In this episode, paediatricians and hosts Dr Sarah Ahmed and Dr Sabina Dosani discuss the Medical Humanities Topic Collection, "Charity and…

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, calls to confront racism, systemic bias, and inequity in global health have become increasingly urgent. But what does meaningful change look like in practice?In this episode, Dr Sarah Ahmed and Dr Sabina Dosani are joined…

This collaborative essay explores maternal grief-writing as a transformative act of reaching across profound gaps of loss, silence, and understanding.

Traditional methods of research and clinical practice are facing a radical shift as scholars push for deeper inclusivity and new ways of thinking.In this episode, Dr. Sarah Ahmed and Dr. Sabina Dosani talk with Dr. Louise Creechan and Professor Femi…

What happens when a comic book illustrator and a fine artist challenge the way medicine is practiced? In this episode, Dr. Sarah Ahmed and Dr. Sabina Dosani talk with Dr. Monica Lalanda and Dr. Tamarin Norwood about why "politeness" might be a…

In the second part of our four-part series about the fundamentals of the field, Professor Stuart Murray and Professor Neil Vickers discuss the origins and institutional state of the Medical Humanities. The conversation explores the field's roots as a…

"Medicine, like people, is messy."In the first episode of a new series from the Medical Humanities podcast, we tackle a question often asked by both sceptics and practitioners: What is the point of the Medical Humanities?Jointly hosted by Dr. Sarah…

Grasping the nettle: notes from a roving artist at Congress – Reflections - Volume 228 Issue 4

Join Dr. Sabina Dosani and Dr. Sarah Ahmed as they interview world-class artists, scholars, and clinicians about health, illness and systems of care.

Sabina Dosani, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, explores music and stillbirth

Two pieces of my writing are in The Examined Life Journal. One is a short piece of fiction, In Between, Hold On, about barnacles, breathlessness and the way memory can be an unreliable tether. The other is an extract from Flesh and Blood

Life in plastic, it’s therapeutic: the Barbie movie and adolescent mental health

Drawing with care: a critique of an arts-based intervention in perinatal psychiatry

Drawing with care: a critique of an arts-based intervention in perinatal psychiatry

Emily Tammam's online writing and Sabina Dosani's memoir were both born out of an urgent need for understanding. Emily, a lived-experience communicator, group facilitator and lactation consultant, ...

Emily Tammam's online writing and Sabina Dosani's memoir were both born out of an urgent need for understanding. Emily, a lived-experience communicator, group facilitator and lactation consultant, ...

The Aristocrat and Death , our cover image, is a fitting companion to the research presented in this issue. A skeletal figure, death himself, grins beside a fashionably dressed man, poised in a gesture of cultivated indifference. This is a confrontation that belies comfort: a reminder that no wealth, power or status can displace mortality. But this image, steeped in memento mori tradition, offers more than a meditation on death. The uncomfortable juxtaposition of these two figures also crystalli

Welcome to the third in a short special series of "Bedside Poetry" podcasts.One poem, one guest, one conversation....I'm delighted to welcome psychiatrist and writer Sabina Dosani to explore "Visit to the Vets" by Ilse PedlerListen here to Ilse Pe...

When my pregnancies ended in silence, medicine fell quiet too. As part of my PhD, I turned to literature, where language gathers around what can’t be seen or said. My new paper in Medical Humanities explores ultrasound motifs in contemporary texts.

Sabina Dosani explores the tensions between biomedical knowledge and embodied subjectivity through creative writing.