Fashionable Diseases Project

“Fashionable Suicides of the Romantic Era”: Michelle Faubert (Newcastle, 23 May 2013)

As part of a series of workshops for the ‘Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, 1660-1832‘ Leverhulme-funded project at Northumbria and Newcastle Universities, we are pleased to welcome Dr Michelle Faubert, Associate Professor in Romantic Literature, University of Manitoba, Canada and Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University to lead a workshop on Read more…

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Hypochondria and the Refashioning of Medical Uncertainty – Catherine Belling (Workshop, Northumbria University, 12 October 2012)

Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832 is a new Leverhulme-funded project at Northumbria and Newcastle Universities. On 12th October, Dr Catherine Belling will be speaking on ‘Hypochondria and the Refashioning of Medical Uncertainty’ at the first of a series of project workshops. Belling is Assistant Professor of Medical Read more…

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