BMJ Medical Humanities will host a special issue on PAIN in June 2018! We want you to be part of it! Title: Pain and its Paradoxes Abstract Deadline: August 1, 2017 Final Submission Deadline: October 1, 2017 (publication date June 2018) Pain is almost certainly the most common illness experience on the planet. Yet, it […]
Category: CFPs and Conference Reports
Stories From the Birthing Room
Sue Wiseman, Professor of Seventeenth Century Literature at Birkbeck University of London, is organising an event entitled “Stories From the Birthing Room” during Birkbeck’s annual Arts Week. Here she discusses the event and some of the issues that she hopes will be open for discussion. ‘I wil not use any kind of sorcery or incantation […]
A Summer of CfPs!
The medical humanities in the UK is seeing an explosion of opportunities at the moment with a number of events coming up and several calls for papers available for your consideration – so if you were worried that you might get bored over the summer then fear no more! I pulled these together with the […]
Institute of Medical Ethics Conference 2017: Call for Papers
4th IME Summer Conference, June 2017 Building on the success of three previous conferences held in Edinburgh, Newcastle and London, the 4th Institute of Medical Ethics (IME) Summer Conference will take place on the 15th and 16th of June in Liverpool. Two changes have been made to the conference format for 2017. First, the Research Committee […]
Symposium – Retroviral Cultures: AIDS, Twenty Years On
1 December 2016, 2.00 PM – 6.00 PM Andrew Blades, Maria Vaccarella, Corinne Squire, MK Czerwiec Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building 2016 marks the twentieth anniversary of the 11th International AIDS Conference in Vancouver, at which Taiwanese American researcher David Ho and his team revealed new antiretroviral combination therapies to the world. […]
Comics and Medicine Conference 2016
Graphic Medicine 2016: Stages & Pages July 7-9, University of Dundee, Scotland Shelley Wall, PhD, University of Toronto The 7th International Comics & Medicine Conference took place in Dundee, Scotland, from July 7 to 9, 2016. It was (as ever) a superb event: inclusive, humane, intellectually stimulating, and creatively inspiring. The field […]
“Embarrassing Bodies” – the male doctor/female patient encounter
From awkwardness to impropriety: conceptualising the male doctor’s embarrassing body in Victorian medical literature By Alison Moulds (University of Oxford) This post is based on a paper given at the “Embarrassing Bodies” conference, organised by Birkbeck, University of London In 1858, Dr Edward Lane – owner of the Moor Park hydropathic establishment in Surrey […]
‘I am Book’ – Clare Best
Illustrated talk for University of Kent symposium on Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities, on 21 April 2016 http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/research/conferences/artistsbooks.html I had been so looking forward to this wonderful symposium devised, designed and immaculately planned by Stella Bolaki, and to seeing the exhibition of Martha Hall’s and other book artists’ work – which is still on […]
CHCI Health Humanities Summer Institute 2016
Sunday 26 – Monday 27 June 2016, 10.00 CHCI Health Humanities Summer Institute 2016 Health Humanities Now Anatomy Lecture Theatre & Museum, King’s Building, Strand Campus 2 day Conference which aims to gather scholars and practitioners from all over the world in the burgeoning field of the health humanities. By showcasing some of […]
Medicine Unboxed: Students 2016
Deadline: Midnight Sunday 3 July 2016 Medicine Unboxed 2016 is on the theme of Wonder and takes place in Cheltenham on 19-20 November 2016. Medicine Unboxed: Students brings together students of the arts, health and medicine to present their work and thinking at Medicine Unboxed. Applications are invited for a 10-minute presentation at Medicine […]