Editorial

Abstract

This year’s open issue of Re:visit once again demonstrates the thematic, source-based, and methodological richness of the Medical Humanities, as well as the diversity of the disciplines involved—a heterogeneity that is productively challenging and invites reflection on the field’s distinctive characteristics, while also encouraging the fruitful engagement of points of friction and overlap with adjacent fields. The seven original contributions are situated in comparative literature, linguistics, oral history research, and psychiatry; the sources range from literary texts (including literary self-narratives) and oral illness narratives to medical textbooks and colonial medical photography. Accordingly, the methodological scope is broad, extending from close reading and image analysis within the framework of invectivity studies to pedagogical and didactic reflections on the role of the Medical Humanities in teaching.