When the sick rule the world, mortality will be sexy. When the sick rule the world, all writing will be short and succinct, no paragraphs will be longer than two sentences so we can comprehend them through the brain fog the well bring to us daily. Dodie Bellamy, When the Sick Rule the World, 36….

Synapsis section editors and writers-in-residence will be speaking on a panel at the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Congress (April 19-21, 2023) on April 21 at 11:30am EST. The panel is titled “A Discussion on Critical Interdisciplinarity: Methods and Methodologies in Medical Humanities.” There, Amala Poli, Melissa “Mel” Maldonado-Salcedo, Emilie Egger, Dr. Diana Novaceanu,…

Synapsis is thrilled to announce the publication of a new book, Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities, just released from Bloomsbury. The book is edited by our editors-in-chief, Rishi Goyal and Arden Hegele, and it features essays by writers of Synapsis. Read an interview with Goyal and Hegele about the book and Synapsis here.  The book…