Medical Humanities

This conference would welcome perspectives from Medical Humanities. The British Society for Literature and Science invites proposals for papers and panels to be delivered at its eighth annual ...

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It's time for the annual Medical Humanities art exhibition at Imperial. There is a really high standard of work this year (as always!), dealing with a range of interesting ideas.

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There is now a full programme for this conference here . Helen King, conference organiser, has also let me know that thanks to generous funding from the Wellcome (love them!), the registration fe...

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Interesting blog posting by Robin Amer about how poet Sheila Black has been inspired by the depictions of pain and selfhood evident in the work of Freida Kahlo.

http://medhum.blogspot.com/2012/03/poet-sheila-black-considers-pain.html

Medical Humanities and Engagement (MH&E) Grants provides funding for high-quality research and activities in the fields of medical humanities and public engagement with biomedical science. They a...

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Retelling familiar tales of pregnancy and birth in European cultures Tues 3rd-Weds 4th July 2012, Oxford PURPOSE OF CONFERENCE This conference aims to bring together leading...

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Artist Brian Dettmer turns old reference books into new works of art using surgical tools. Isn't this gorgeous?

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University College Cork, July 9-11, 2012 The 2012 conference of the Association for Medical Humanities will take place at University College Cork, Ireland, with the kind support of the Wellcome ...

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A newly formed Arts Organisation called Parlour Arts is looking for artists and performers for their upcoming exhibition, "The Sublime Body". The exhibition will take place in the Parlour Spac...

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I’ve been invited to deliver a masterclass in using classical literature to teach ethics at the Institute of Medical Ethics Conference next month. I’m really looking forward to it, not l...

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News of a wonderful medically themed film festival touring the UK. This is the second year of the festival which aims to provoke debate on the ethics and politics of doctors on film. This year...

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When this blog was started some eight years ago, it was envisaged as a place where students from the Imperial College Medical Humanities course could share their writing and any medical humanitie...

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22-24 July 2012 Toronto, Canada Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Biomedical Communications Program, University of Toronto, Office of the Vice-Principal, Research, University of Toronto...

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You are warmly invited to the opening reception on Tuesday 17 May of 'Iris', a celebration of art by this year's Medical Humanities students. The reception starts at 7 pm. The exhibition is in...

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The Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University has a great blog , giving notice of medical humanities events but also offering reflections on the relationship between medicine and broade...

http://medhum.blogspot.com/2011/04/centre-for-medical-humanities-at-durham.html

Posted on behalf of Dr Richard Marsden: Scholars from the universities of Glamorgan and Cardiff are currently breaking new ground in the Medical Humanities with the Off Sick project. This rese...

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Are psychotic disorders accurately portrayed to the public through popular media? Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” presents a ballerina’s descent into schizophrenia, caused by the press...

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British artist John Stezaker takes portraits and various landscapes and questions conventional understanding of lines and flow. He creates collages of seemingly contrasting pictures into curious,...

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TWO-DAY CONFERENCE: ‘HEALTH, ILLNESS AND ETHNICITY: MIGRATION, DISCRIMINATION AND SOCIAL DISLOCATION’ Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin, 10-11 June 201...

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Comics & Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness conference 9-11 June 2011 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois This second international interdisciplinary conf...

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As spam detection for blogs gets more sophisticated, some companies have taken to employing individuals to write realistic looking comments on blog postings, with a link to their business, embedd...

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The artist Andrea Dezsö's artworks are just gorgeous. You can see more of her work here . The series of embroided 'homilies' from the series 'Lessons from my mother' are hard hitting.

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Thanks to my friend Anna Nyberg for pointing out this wonderful page of 'The Doctor is in... Literature' titles on AbeBooks . I've only read one of the 'Evil doctors' books (Jekyll and Hyde), ...

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Fascinating article on CultureLab about how an embryologist has identified the symbols on Danaë's cloak in Klimt's iconic painting as blastocysts -- early embryo forms. The symbolism is apt a...

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The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine , is now accepting applications for the 2011 entry and invites both national and international submissions. I attended the one-day symposium and priz...

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