The Warburg Institute Literature, Ideas and Society Seminar Series presents The Medicinal Power of Reading 9 February 2011, 5.15 at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London with Vivian Nutton (University College London, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine) and Angus Gowland (University College London, History Department) The Read more…
Professor Marcia Childress: Samuel Beckett’s Short Plays as Tutorials in Geriatrics and End of Life Care Wednesday 24 November 5:00pm to 7:00pm Birley Room, Hatfield College Modernist Irish author and Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett’s spare, compact, and provocative plays Footfalls (1976) and Rockaby (1981) are virtuoso studies in the loneliness Read more…
The journal Literature and Medicine has just made available online a special issue on ‘Cancer Stories’. The editors, Jane E Schultz and Martha Stoddard Holmes, introduce the issue as follows: “In the twentieth century, cancer exceeded its discursive boundaries as a biological entity and became the focus of intense cultural Read more…