Phenomenology of Breathing Royal Fort House University of Bristol Thursday 14 May 2015, 1-5 Session 1: 1-2.30 Havi Carel (Bristol): A phenomenology of breathlessness Sheena Hyland (Dublin City University) : Body and breath: phenomenological perspectives Anya Farennikova (Bristol): Is it possible to feel breathless?’ 2.30 coffee break Session 2: 3-4.30 Read more…
All lectures are open to the public and CPD is available for clinical practitioners. The programme for the coming academic year is as follows: Tuesday, 30 September 2014 | 16:00 | Trinity Long Room Hub Representing Posthuman Embodiment: Considering Disability and the Case of Aimee Mullins A lecture by Dr Read more…
The Centre for Medical Humanities warmly congratulates Professor Havi Carel on her appointment to Chair in Philosophy at Bristol University. Professor Carel is one of the world’s leading phenomenologists of illness. She has conducted extensive investigations of the ways in which as embodied persons we experience illness primarily as a Read more…
Patient knowledge and involvement in healthcare Royal Institute of Philosophy Workshop Storey Institute, Lancaster Monday 12th May In recent years great efforts have been made to listen to “patient voices” in healthcare practice, research, and policy, but such initiatives have met with mixed success and many patients continue to feel Read more…
The next King’s College London Philosophy of Medicine seminar will be held 25th March, 13.30 – 15.00, Virginia Woolf Building, Room 7.17 (Building F on this map) Professor Matthew Ratcliffe, Durham University How Anxiety Produces Verbal Hallucinations This paper addresses the phenomenology of verbal hallucinations, focusing on the role of anxiety. Pronounced feelings of anxiety Read more…
Medical Humanities Research Seminar Series University of Bristol 31 October 2013: Professor Ronald Schleifer (University of Oklahoma): ‘The Fact and Experience of Pain: The Intersection of Science and Culture’ (G16, Cotham House) 26 November 2013: Dr Antonio Casado da Rocha (University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian): ‘Four Concepts of Read more…
Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) Inaugural Conference Friday 18 October 2013 Senate Room, University College, Durham University 1:30pm – 6.15 followed by a drinks reception Prof. Nancy Cartwright & Prof. Julian Reiss Introductions CHESS Directors, Durham University Prof. Philip Kitcher Irresoluble Uncertainty Department of Philosophy, Columbia University Read more…
University of Bristol Philosophy of Medicine & Medical Humanities Seminars 2013-14 Silent body – Speaking mind: how to transcend this schism? Anna Luise Kirkengen MD PhD1, Eline Thornquist PhD2 Tuesday 24 September, 5.00-6.30 Room G16, Cotham House, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol (1) General Practice Research Unit, Department of Read more…
Registration has now opened for those wishing to attend a one-day conference on ‘Made Up People’: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Labelling and the Construction of People in Post-War History to be held in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Warwick on 25th October 2013. A key note speech Read more…
Anthony Fernandez, graduate student in Philosophy at the University of South Florida, writes: This year the fifteenth annual meeting of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry took the rather grand form of a tripartite traveling symposium entitled, Philosophy and Psychiatry: The Next Hundred Years. The occasion – the centenary Read more…