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Conferences and Symposiums

The Stimulated Body and the Arts – The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics Conference

‘The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics’ International Interdisciplinary Conference Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease February 17 and 18 Hatfield College, Durham University, UK This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between aesthetics and medical understandings Read more…

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CMH Publications

Aesthetics of Touch and the Medical Humanities

“Literature Between Medicine and Religion: Herder’s Aesthetics of Touch and the Emerging Field of Medical Humanities,” by CMH researcher Michael Mack, has recently been published in volume 94 of Neophilologus. The abstract reads as follows: “This article uses a reading of Herder’s early essay Sculpture to locate Herder’s place within Read more…

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Seminars and Lectures

Imaginative Worlds: Medical Humanities and ‘the uses of literature’

Inventions of the Text Seminar Series 2010-2011: The Uses of Literature Imaginative Worlds: Medical Humanities and ‘the uses of literature’ Corinne Saunders, Michael Mack & Angela Woods: Centre for Medical Humanities Tuesday 25 January, 6.30 pm (please note later start time) Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street, Durham. All welcome. The Medical Read more…

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