Founded in 2010, the CMH blog has published some fantastic posts, won awards, help establish connections between researchers in the field, and attracted 8500 followers. But we know we can do more, and that it’s time for a revamp. We are seeking a team of part-time Associate Editors to help Read more…
Felicity Callard writes: We are delighted to have heard that our Centre for Medical Humanities blog has been ‘Highly Commended’ at the 2014 UK Blog Awards in the Health (Organisation) category. This means that the CMH blog is one of the top three organisational health blogs in the UK (no mean Read more…
The CMH blog is 1000 posts old and it’s time we heard from you – our readers, subscribers and twitter followers – about what’s working, what you’d like to see more (and less) of, and what the future of medical humanities blogging should be. Our short questionnaire will be open Read more…
Asylums possess fascinating geographies, with distinctive urban, local, regional, and environmental connections, with the sites and architecture of the former institutions carefully chosen by a variety of people, for very specific reasons. The blog Asylum Geographies explores these geographies and institutions in detail, from the macro to the micro scale, Read more…
The U Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society (CNS) announces its newest online venture, neuroethics blog Penn Minds the Gap. Authored by Penn undergraduate Elena Gooray (SAS ’13), Penn Minds the Gap explores key ethical, legal, and social issues in the field of neuroscience. Featuring exclusive content including interviews with our Read more…
The Cost of Living is a blog about the sociology of medicine, health and health care. It was launched last month. Since then the blog has had features, and comments on: Badgers, TB and Uncertainty Contingency, technology and NHS working Privatisation and the Health and Social Care Act Ethics, rationing and blind decisions Read more…
The workshop on “Experimental Entanglements in Cognitive Neuroscience” was announced on this blog last month. Des Fitzgerald (Sociology, LSE), the co-convenor of the workshop, has now created a website for the workshop: Experimental Entanglements. The programme has just been finalized, and we shall continue adding additional materials in the next few Read more…
CMH is delighted to introduce to a medical humanities audience the new History of Emotions blog. The blog will be written by members of the Queen Mary centre, as well as by visiting scholars and associates, offering historical perspectives on current affairs, contemporary culture, and public policy – as well Read more…