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A Call to Care
In September 2022, I was privileged to share some of the incredible work we do at Percept at the 10th international conference on "Why...
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Beth Vale
- Jul 29, 2022
- 1 min
Five ways South Africa can advance equity
Co-authored with Rose Tuyeni Peter and Daryl Swanepoel https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-07-12-five-ways-in-which-south-africa...
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Beth Vale
- Apr 27, 2022
- 1 min
Home is where the health is
Through our brief on #NCDs and Households, we call on healthcare providers, researchers, policymakers and practitioners to look beyond...
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Beth Vale
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
Challenging assumptions about dropout
Rahima Essop and Beth Vale In the popular imagination, a pupil who drops out is thought of as lazy or irresponsible. Similarly, the...
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Beth Vale
- Oct 30, 2021
- 2 min
MHHA: 10 Questions with Beth Vale
Thank you Medical Health Humanities Africa for the profile Read more here: https://www.medicalandhealthhumanities.africa/practitioner/bet...
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Beth Vale
- Jul 13, 2021
- 1 min
Talking Writers & Writing with Phumlani Pikoli
In January 2021, award-winning author and multi-media artist, Phumlani Pikoli, drew a group of storytellers and critics into conversation...
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Beth Vale
- Nov 28, 2020
- 1 min
Karoo Writers' Festival
In November 2020, I participated in the Virtual Karoo Writers Festival. I presented excerpts from my working manuscript, which tells the...
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Beth Vale
- Oct 20, 2020
- 1 min
Karoo Sanatorium
A speculative fiction based on many true stories. Abstract: In the early decades of the 1900’s, with tuberculosis having taken hold in...
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Beth Vale
- Aug 11, 2020
- 1 min
Postcards from the Edge
Life under pandemic, as told through dystopian digital collage.
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Beth Vale
- Jul 23, 2020
- 1 min
The virus in the queues
This article serves as part of an online project, curated by the critical theory journal, Thesis 11. The project is titled Living and...
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Beth Vale
- Jun 24, 2020
- 4 min
No time to wait
It’s 5.30am on a cold Tuesday morning in a small Eastern Cape town. It could just as well be any town, in any part of South Africa, since...
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Beth Vale
- May 12, 2020
- 4 min
We were already sick: Covid-19, non-communicable diseases, and the health response we really need.
In 1971, epidemiologist Abdel Omran, published an influential article in which he declared that humanity was undergoing an...
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Beth Vale
- Apr 24, 2020
- 1 min
Spooning: True crimes in confinement
Every home on earth has been touched by a case of a missing teaspoon. It's a crime that almost always goes unpunished. Not this time....
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Beth Vale
- Jan 24, 2020
- 5 min
Minding Mental Health: Exhibition Opening Remarks
TMRW Gallery 21 Keyes Art Mile Rosebank Johannesburg 23 January 2020 Most of you will know by now that this exhibition is a collection of...
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Beth Vale
- Jan 5, 2019
- 1 min
Consolations
In times of loss When we find no words to speak of anything When the narrative arcs we spun for our lives are unthreaded Suddenly —...
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Beth Vale
- Dec 27, 2018
- 1 min
Bodies and boundaries
What often strikes me about human beings and their bodies is how readily they look to deny them. In many contemporary societies, much...
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Beth Vale
- Dec 26, 2018
- 1 min
Mind/body
Mind-body dualism (the idea that the soul or 'consciousness' is separable from the body) has been an incredibly forceful idea in human...
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Beth Vale
- Dec 24, 2018
- 2 min
Alone in my body
As a toddler, I spent most of my days at play-school, with my toes buried in sandpits and my hands covered in paint. Every evening, when...
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Beth Vale
- Dec 24, 2018
- 2 min
Got rhythm?
Every morning, somewhere between 5-7am, my 71-year-old father takes a one-hour walk through the streets of Brixton, Johannesburg. Whether...
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Bodies and boundaries
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