Founding Editor Angela Woods writes… It’s the end of era! Eight years and over 2500 posts later, the Centre for Medical Humanities blog is shutting up shop. In it’s place and launching tomorrow, Thursday 14 September, a new site called The Polyphony will publish essays, reviews and provocations from across Read more…
The conference will consider the debate on fashion and sickness that linked melancholy, the vapours, nervousness, gout, consumption and many other diagnoses with the elite and superior sensibility. Its central aim is to take a new look at the topic by taking into account voices from beyond the social and Read more…
3rd International Health Humanities Network Conference Traumatextualities: Trauma in the clinical, arts and humanities contexts 5th – 7th September 2014, University of Nottingham Following the huge success of the 2010 and 2012 IHHN conferences in Nottingham and New Jersey (USA), Nottingham Health Humanities and the ICSPCRR (International Consortium for the Read more…
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Edited by Sharon Ruston, Alice Jenkins, and Catherine Belling Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine is an exciting new series that focuses on one of the most vibrant and interdisciplinary areas in literary studies: the intersection of literature, science and medicine. Comprised Read more…
The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) is pleased to announce an additional seminar this semester on 6 March at 5pm in Room 119, Hamish Woods Building on the Glasgow Caledonian University campus. Alice Major, a poet and writer originally from Dumbarton, now lives in Edmonton, Read more…
Experiencing Metaphor: A Medieval Headache by Jamie McKinstry, Durham University, was first published in Volume 6.1 of the open access medical humanities journal Hektoen International. “Metaphors have been used extensively in medicine to describe patients, illustrate diseases, and educate students.1 By comparing unlike things that have something in common, they enhance Read more…
Disability and Fashionable Diseases in Literature and Culture Michael Davidson and Stuart Murray 14 November, 2013, Northumbria University Fashion and Illness in Georgian Bath Annick Cossic 21 November 2013, Northumbria University Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832 An International Interdisciplinary Conference, 3rd – 5th July 2014 Call for Read more…
‘The Art of Medicine: Self-Portrait without Breasts’ presents poet Clare Best’s personal journey through preventive double mastectomy. Experts from UCL and St George’s, University of London’s ethics team will also discuss the topic in this opportunity for members of the local community to discover more on the cross-over between medicine, Read more…
Rachael Allen and Eliot North, November 2013 – July 2014 Drawing on her 2 years experience as artist in residence (AIR) at Newcastle, Northumbria and Durham University anatomy labs, and success as a multidisciplinary artist working within the fields of medicine, medical humanities and health, Rachael Allen has been awarded Read more…
Highlights from the Queen Mary History of Emotions Blog, September and October 2013: Claire Langhamer, Everyday Love and Emotions in the 20th Century Jules Evans, Live Like a Stoic Week Jane Mackelworth, Review of Laura Doan, Disturbing Practices Katherine Clark, David Lederer, and Hera Cook, Roundtable on William Reddy, The Making of Read more…