Hospital senses booklets.

These booklets are "a collaborative project from the Hospital Senses Collective, core collaborators on the Wellcome Trust grant 'Senses and Modern Health/Care Environments' (2019-22). At the core of this collaboration is not a shared research project, but a conversation about interdisciplinarity and new ways of doing research. We have developed a series of booklets, with short co-authored provocations, creative commissions and a playful physical form that help us to explore the senses in ways not possible in traditional publication forms. Our approach to this collection of booklets draws on a range of disciplines and expertise, which moves through the different spaces of the hospital to illuminate the multisensory experience. The hospital spaces which we have identified as Waiting Spaces, Thresholds, Wards, Operating Theatres, The Laundry and Corridors, do not offer a singular set of sensory experiences. Everyone's experience of each space will vary depending on geography, time, emotions and bodies. Rather than emphasise the importance or pervasiveness of one sense more than another we engage with different ways in which we might experience a different space."--From project website https://hospitalsenses.co.uk/2019/11/15/hospital-senses-booklets/

"Please note that due to their focus on hospital senses, these booklets deal with some difficult themes, and in places include detailed descriptions of illness and medical treatment."--From project website.

[United Kingdom] : Hospital Senses Collective, [2019]

6 volumes : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm

Each of these booklets has non-standard binding. They have hand sewn spines in white thread. The six booklets are held together with a white card band with a floorplan of a hospital printed on it.

The Hospital Senses Collective is: Marie Allitt, researcher in literary medical humanities, Agnes Arnold-Forster, historian of healthcare and the emotions, Victoria Bates, historian of medicine and the senses, Harriet Barratt, researcher in health humanities and psychoanalysis, Emma Cheatle, researcher in architectural and health humanities, Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, researcher in arts, design and health, Clare Hickman, historian of medicine and the environment.

Includes bibliographical references.

Thresholds -- Waiting spaces -- Corridors -- Wards -- Operating theatre -- Laundry.

Wellcome Trust grant output. Grantholder: Victoria Bates. Grant type: Small Grants in Humanities and Social Science. Grant number: 218188/Z/19/Z.