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Engaging Science workshops announcement

The Wellcome Trust Engaging Science team are organising a series of workshops bringing together a group of researchers, science engagement practitioners and individuals working for cultural and community organisations to explore the key challenges and opportunities that can help us make science accessible to all. The aim of this workshop Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, 6 years3 years ago
New Generations Programme

Public Engagement for the New Generations

By Dr Luna Dolezal, Department of Philosophy and Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University. The New Generations in Medical Humanities cohort recently visited the Wellcome Trust in London. This three-day visit kicked off with a day dedicated to Public Engagement and hearing about Wellcome Trust’s various initiatives in this direction. Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, 6 years6 years ago
Book Review

‘Operation Ouch! Medical Milestones and Crazy Cures’ reviewed by Dr Anne Hanley

  ‘Operation Ouch! Medical Milestones and Crazy Cures’ by Chris and Xand van Tulleken (LB Kids, 2014) Have you ever wondered why trepanning was used to treat headaches? Why the Ancient Egyptians mashed tortoise brains with honey to treat eye troubles? Or why ‘gong farming’ was such an unpleasant occupation? Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, 6 years3 years ago
Thought Pieces

Beyond the Walls: Museums, Medical Humanities, and Community Building (Guest Post by Brandy Schillace)

How do we build community? What makes it possible? The Medical Humanities, operating at the intersection of fields, aims to bring diverse perspectives together. But that isn’t as easy as it sounds. In the mad tumult and breakneck pace at which we presently live, it’s increasingly difficult to be heard Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, 6 years6 years ago
Exhibitions, Performances and Screenings

Training Program – 20 places, Research in Translation: Public Engagement through Exhibition Displays – Deadline Friday 18 July 2014

Research in Translation: Public Engagement through Exhibition Displays is an exciting training programme designed to offer knowledge and first-hand experience to Early Career Researchers (ECRs) on how to communicate their research to the public. Working closely with museum practitioners, design professionals and museologists in two, two-day workshops, participants will learn the skills and techniques Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, 7 years3 years ago
Exhibitions, Performances and Screenings

“Devouring Brains with Neuroscientists”: Liat Clark in WiredUK on Guerrilla Science’s “Brain Banquet” (London, 13–15 March 2014)

Journalist Liat Clark has reflected on the process of “devouring brains with neuroscientists” in WiredUK. As this blog reported previously, Guerrilla Science is throwing a “Brain Banquet” in London on 13–15 March 2014 — a “unique pop-up dining experience in a World War Two bunker in East London”. CMH staff member Dr Felicity Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, 7 years3 years ago
Thought Pieces

Medicine, Mythos, Museums, and the Muse: Museums on the Cutting Edge of Medical Humanities

Medicine, Mythos, Museums, and the Muse: Museums on the Cutting Edge of Medical Humanities By Brandy Schillace The recent December 2013 issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry hosted its first medical humanities special section. In the introduction (“Meaning and Medicine in a New Key”), I began with the following quote: Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, 7 years7 years ago
Seminars and Lectures

The Art of Medicine: Self-Portrait without Breasts (Discussion & Public Debate, St George’s, University of London, 25 Nov 2014)

‘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…

By medh, 7 years3 years ago
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