Medical Humanities (Medicine and Literature) seminar series
2015/16
Narrating Decay 17 February 2016 Maria Vaccarella (University of Bristol)
Modernist Literature and the Medicalization of Sunlight 9 March 2016 Kirsty Martin (University of Exeter)
'Like a Possession of the Devil': Monomania in Sensation Fiction 20 April 2016 Helena Ifill (University of Sheffield)
Indian (In)dependence: Alcohol and the Legacy of Empire in Rushdie's Midnight's Children 27 April 2016 Sam Goodman (Bournemouth University)
2014/15
'The Republic of the Mad': Franco Basaglia and the revolution in mental health care in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s 28 October 2014 Prof John Foot (University of Bristol)
Should we kill the dead? 11 November 2014 Dr Timothy Secret (University of Winchester)
The Sick Child in Early Modern England, 1580-1720 9 December 2014 Dr Hannah Newton (Cambridge University)
How to Revive a Plague: Recent Representations of the AIDS Epidemic in Literature and Cinema 12 February 2015 Dr Andrew Blades (University of Bristol)
2013/14
The Fact and Experience of Pain: The Intersection of Science and Culture 30 October 2013 Professor Ronald Schleifer (University of Oklahoma)
Life-story Work as Pedagogy: Listening, Empathy and Testimonial Sensibility in Dementia Awareness Training 26 November 2013 Dr Nicole Matthews (Macquarie University, Sydney)
Taxonomies of Voice-Hearing: A Critical Medical Humanities Approach to the Study of Hallucination 10 December 2013 Dr Angela Woods (Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Durham)
Epigenetics, Plasticity and Identity in Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road 11 February 2014 Professor Clare Hanson (University of Southampton)
The Psychic Aura of Physical Illness 18 March 2014 Dr Neil Vickers (King's Centre for Medical Humanities, University of London)
Imagining Death: Representations as Lived Reality 20 May 2014 Professor Sander Gilman (Emory)