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Dr Fiona Johnstone's Outputs (22)

What can art history offer medical humanities? (2024)
Journal Article
Biernoff, S., & Johnstone, F. (2024). What can art history offer medical humanities?. Medical Humanities, 50(3), 529-538. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012763

This article charts the emergence of visual medical humanities as a space of academic research, creative practice and lively critical debate, with a focus on how art historical scholarship has influenced the field’s formation. Concentrating on develo... Read More about What can art history offer medical humanities?.

Picture an epidemic: contemporary culture and HIV (2024)
Journal Article
Johnstone, F. (2024). Picture an epidemic: contemporary culture and HIV. The Lancet, 403(10429), 802-803. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2824%2900252-6

Dazzling in a crimson prom dress, a young woman sits on an examination couch in a consulting room. In the muted blue shadows to her left, a physician prepares to take a blood sample. The young woman has been cared for by the doctor since she was aged... Read More about Picture an epidemic: contemporary culture and HIV.

Collaborations in art and medicine: institutional critique, patient participation, and emerging entanglements (2023)
Journal Article
Johnstone, F. (online). Collaborations in art and medicine: institutional critique, patient participation, and emerging entanglements. Leonardo, 56(4), 424-429. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02409

Collaborations between artists and clinicians or biomedical researchers have become increasingly common in recent decades, and now constitute a distinctive category of art-science collaboration. This article reflects on the intellectual and material... Read More about Collaborations in art and medicine: institutional critique, patient participation, and emerging entanglements.

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