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Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine (2022)
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Woolley, D., Johnstone, F., Sampson, E., & Chambers, P. (Eds.). (in press). Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan

This book explores the intersections between wearable objects and human health, with particular emphasis on how artists and designers are creatively responding to and rethinking these relations. Addressing a rich range of wearable artefacts, from mo... Read More about Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine.

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020)
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Powell, H., & Saunders, C. (Eds.). (2021). Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52659-7

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted acco... Read More about Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts.

Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences (2015)
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Callard, F., & Fitzgerald, D. (2015). Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137407962

This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself in the authors' own experie... Read More about Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences.

Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice (2015)
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Brandsma, F., Larrington, C., & Saunders, C. (Eds.). (2015). Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice. D.S.Brewer

Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the audiences which... Read More about Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice.

The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine (2015)
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Saunders, C., Macnaughton, J., & Fuller, D. (Eds.). (2015). The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.