Medicine, Mythos, Museums, and the Muse: Museums on the Cutting Edge of Medical Humanities By Brandy Schillace The recent December 2013 issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry hosted its first medical humanities special section. In the introduction (“Meaning and Medicine in a New Key”), I began with the following quote: Read more…
Regular readers will remember that last year we ran a reader survey last year – this gave us lots of ideas for improving the site. One of things your feedback highlighted was the connections we could make with research projects, conferences, seminars, and networks. You can still submit your calls Read more…
Mike White‘s diary entry reads: 9th.January. I am up the Northern Centre for Cancer Care this morning for my chemo breakfast, the Special K in my treatment plan. The day room is furnished like the lobby of a budget hotel with vinyl armchairs in alternate pink and purple. Here 20 Read more…
The sixth Scottish Health Humanities Seminar and Masterclass will be on Thursday 23 January 2014. Prof Sarah Atkinson, Deptartment of Geography, Durham University. Co-Director of Belief, Understanding and Wellbeing, Wolfson Research Institute, and Associate Director, Centre for Medical Humanities Public Seminar: Space and Place in the Health and Medical Humanities Thursday 23 January Read more…
Out of Darkness Comes Light – mysteriously beautiful photographs from a bedbound sufferer By Penny Clare “I was mostly confined to bed in a dark room – for years, and years, and years. At some point, in this isolated sea, I started taking photos. From my bed, in the dark. Read more…
On behalf of everyone at the Centre for Medical Humanities, we would like to thank all our readers for your continued support and contributions to the dynamic medical humanities discussions this site has helped facilitate in 2013. Our blog is currently under-doing an exciting redesign and will be re-launching in Read more…
Wolfson Institute’s Special Interest Group ‘Belief and Health’ Saturday 11th of January, 14:00-17:00. St. Chad’s College, 18 North Bailey, Durham, County Durham DH1 3RH. Buffet lunch, tea and coffee will be served. All are welcome, but registration via email to Ivana Petrovich by Thursday 9 January is essential. There is no Read more…
Mike White writes: The country road in Australia is mostly A to B straight on and can seem to traverse interplanetary distance. Crossing the aboriginal lands of ‘first nation’ people, however, it is a road to nowhere as highlighted in John Pilger’s provocative TV documentary Utopia that aired on ITV Read more…
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Alternative Psychiatric Narratives is a conference taking place at Birkbeck on 16-17 May 2014. One of its convenors, PhD candidate Janet Weston, considers some of its themes in relation to her own research. When I began my PhD research in the history of medicine just over a year ago, Read more…