We are delighted to offer A Body, Undone (Crosby, 2016) for review. Expressions of interest are welcome from across the medical humanities. Further information about the themes under study can be found at New York University Press. In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle Read more…
“Rethinking Sexology – The Cross-Disciplinary Invention of Sexuality: Sexual Science Beyond the Medical, 1890-1940” This major five-year Wellcome Trust-funded Joint Investigator Award project (2015-2020), led by Professor Kate Fisher (History) and Jana Funke (English) at the University of Exeter, seeks to reconsider the emergence of the scientific study of human Read more…
‘The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China’ by Everett Yuehong Zhang (Duke University Press, 2016). The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China is a poignant account of the mutable public attitudes towards sexuality in post-Mao China. Through an intense ethnological study, Everett Read more…
We are pleased to offer for review ‘The Impotence Epidemic: Men’s Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China’ by Everett Yuehong Zhang (Duke University Press, 2015). Expressions of interest are welcome from across the medical humanities. Since the 1990s China has seen a dramatic increase in the number of men seeking treatment for impotence. Everett Read more…
We are pleased to offer for review ‘The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body‘ (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) by the Centre’s very own Dr Luna Dolezal. Expressions of interest are welcome from across the medical humanities. ‘The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body investigates Read more…
DIALECTICS OF LIBERATION A contemporary revisiting of the now legendary 1967 Congress, with guest speakers including Selma James and Lynne Segal 15th July, 7pm, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH The Dialectics of Liberation Congress was held at the Roundhouse in July 1967. The now legendary meeting of minds was a unique expression Read more…
New Generations in Medical Humanities participant Dr Jana Funke (English, University of Exeter) has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Joint Investigator Award. As a New Investigator, Jana will co-direct with Senior Investigator Professor Kate Fisher (History, University of Exeter) a 5-year project on “The Cross-Disciplinary Invention of Sexuality: Sexual Science Read more…
DURHAM QUEER STUDIES COLLOQUIUM As a new initiative for the 2014/15 academic year, we aim to establish The Durham Queer Studies Colloquium – an interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of issues pertaining to queer culture, identity and politics in their broad contexts. INITIAL MEETING (general discussion of scope and aims Read more…
Infant Feeding: Nurture and Nourishment Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group Seminars Oxford University Michaelmas/Autumn Term 2014 Infant feeding has become an increasingly important area for research, with public health discourses underscoring declining breastfeeding rates, the dangers of colostrum avoidance early supplementary feeding and commerciogenic malnutrition. This seminar series will bring Read more…
Gender and Transgression in 20th-Century Britain Newcastle University, 7th March 2014 Keynote Address: Jim Byatt (St Andrews) Call for Papers: Chris Jenks finds us to be fascinated and obsessed with transgression. For all that we recognise the distinctions between good and evil or morality and immorality, we are attracted to Read more…