Co-hosts Ian Sabroe and Dieter Declercq talk with Martina about appliedness and medical education, medical humanities and (the lack of) defined disciplinary identity, and how the medical humanities interact with multiple academic disciplines in research and teaching.

Martina King studied medicine, German literature and philosophy in Munich and qualified as paediatrician. After 15 years of clinical paediatrics and some years of teaching modern German literature, she turned to medical humanities: she lectured medical history in Glasgow and Bern, wrote her second book on the cultural and literary history of German bacteriology and became professor of medical humanities at Fribourg University in 2018. Her current research interests are medical spaces in modern literature and culture, and the medical discharge report as factual narrative genre.