Workfare and the medical humanities: a response to

Interdisciplinary engagements of medical humanities have done much to expand our understanding of ill-health and the promo-tion of good health beyond the purview of a biomedical gaze. Nonetheless, the field has tended predominantly to speak back to the practices of medicine and the policies of public health. The emergence of a ‘critical’ medical humanities that is reflected through the papers in this special issue opens a broader field of enquiry that can interrogate how those mobilisations of evidence, prac-tice and therapy inherent to a biomedical gaze infuse and inform aspects of life well beyond the formal reach of the healt