Christine Slobogin, Assistant Professor of Health Humanities and Bioethics, University of Rochester Medical Center
Katie Snow, Research Fellow, University College Dublin
Laura Cowley, Wellcome Trust postgraduate, Birkbeck, University of London

Part I: Pathologies and power in print
1 ‘Uncorking Old Sherry’: Alcohol, the body and political decline in visual culture. The case of Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Callum Smith
2 Bedroom eyes as bedside manner: Humorous expressions of medical impropriety in mid-nineteenth-century visual culture - Rebecca Whiteley
3 ‘The top set’s artificial, but the bottom’s my own!’: Comic representations of false teeth and denture users in mid-twentieth-century British seaside postcards - Georgia Haire

Part II: Dying laughing: Death, disfigurement, disease and disability
4 Dancing, laughing and sexing (with) death: Edvard Munch’s gendered medical humour - Allison Morehead
5 Tube pedicles and positionality: The visual humour of a plastic surgery technique - Christine Slobogin
6 The bittersweet look(s) of AIDS: Consuming the ironic waste of HIV/AIDS imagery (and other butts of the joke) in Diseased Pariah News - Jo Michael Rezes
7 Irony, assisted dying and The Disabled Avant-Garde - Laura Cowley

Part III: Comical Health Communications
8 ‘Doctor, are you speaking in tongues?’: Humour and the health humanities of Selma and Lois DeBakey - Jeffrey S. Reznick
9 Tough Shit Thomas and Peanut Pete: Harm reduction comics and British identities in the 1990s - Peder Clark
10 Pandemic funnies: Humour in COVID-19 comics - Soha Bayoumi