The exhibition catalogue Prescriptions: Artists’ Books on Wellbeing and Medicine has been published as part of the Wellcome Trust-funded project Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities. The project is led by the University of Kent and explores the role book arts can play in raising awareness of the richness and Read more…
Portraits of Violence: War and the Aesthetics of Disfigurement is a new book by Suzannah Biernoff which investigates the artistic, medical, and journalistic responses to facial injury in WWI. Portraits of Violence explores the image and idea of facial disfigurement in one of its most troubling modern formations, as a Read more…
Palgrave Communications, the multi-disciplinary open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan, is excited to announce the launch of a special issue, ‘On balance: lifestyle, mental health and wellbeing’. This issue is edited by Dr Ali Haggett (Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, UK). During the twentieth and early twenty-first Read more…
The launch event for The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities will take place on Thursday 28 July, 4-6pm, Percy Building, Newcastle University. The Companion will be launched by Deborah Bowman, Professor of Clinical and Mental Health Ethics at the Tavistock and Portman and Editor, BMJ Medical Humanities. The Companion is Read more…
Post provided by Dr Bethan Evans Come and celebrate the Liverpool launch of a powerful new book Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement! Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Friday 17 June, 6.30-8.30pm This exciting work by author and activist Charlotte Cooper is the product of a four year research project that asks Read more…
The New York Academy of Medicine Library is pleased to announce its schedule of 2016 programming in medicine, history, and the humanities, sponsored by its Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health. This year’s special themed series is “Changemakers: Activism and Advocacy for Health,” showcasing the role of Read more…
by Hearing the Voice | Dec 16, 2015 Hearing the Voice is delighted to draw our readers’ attention to a collection of five articles on voice-hearing that has been published recently in The Lancet’s ‘Art of Medicine’ section. Written by Hearing the Voice researchers, the articles in the series explore Read more…
Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory by Jamie McKinstry is the latest volume in Boydell and Brewer’s series ‘Studies in Medieval Romance’ and discusses a variety of areas including Middle English literature, classical memory theory, and also aspects of Medical Humanities. In Middle English romances many memories are Read more…
Palgrave Communications is a new high-quality, open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan, that covers all fields of research within the social sciences, humanities and (HSS) business, including health and medical humanities. Palgrave Communications’ broad scope reflects Palgrave Macmillan’s international reputation and strengths in HSS publishing. As well as being Read more…
The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body Luna Dolezal Book Launch, Monday 25 May 2015, 6pm Ideas Space, 3rd Floor, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin RSVP via email by Friday 22 May, 2015 Luna Dolezal is an Irish Research Council ELEVATE Postdoctoral Fellow based Read more…