What are the main sites of interdisciplinary collaboration in medical and health research and how, exactly, do they work?
Answering this question, this open access book uses a series of short, engaging chapters focused on topics such as the workshop, the lab, and the funder, to mark out the backgrounds, places, moments and objects where the knotty work of collaboration happens.

Offering a guide to contemporary interdisciplinary health research that eschews the often abstract and bureaucratic language of more formal 'how-to' guides, this book provides a concrete map of where interdisciplinary things are happening, and what's happening in them.

Foregrounding an interest in practical and creative applications over theoretical reflections it brings together contributors from a wide array of countries, backgrounds and disciplines to give a sense of the breadth and diversity within which interdisciplinary health research is taking place today.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.

Angela Woods is the Director of the UK's only research institute for medical humanities at Durham University, UK, and is also the Director of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities. She is the co-editor of the influential volume The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities and Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Des Fitzgerald is one of the co-directors of interdisciplinary Radical Humanities Laboratory at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of a range of interdisciplinary texts, including The Urban Brain, The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society, and Rethinking Interdisciplinarity.