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)
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