Monthly Archives: January 2011

Tilery Lanterns

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

Days Six and Seven Saturday’s community-run workshop went very well. A lot of folk came along. Over eighty were given a lunch of home made stew(corned beef or vegetable) with a crusty roll and a host of new lanterns were … Continue reading →

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Privatising Values

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

Stephen Pattison, Professor of Religion, Ethics and Practice at the University of Birmingham, and former Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities, offers the following observations on the current proposed NHS reforms: I’ve just returned from a well known, … Continue reading →

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Tilery Lanterns 2011

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

Day Five Everyone pulled together last night to prepare for today. Nine University students, parents, Gilly and I finished making four large frames, each the size of a trestle table. Year 6 work in groups of 6-8 to decorate the … Continue reading →

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The Hospital as Jungle : Tiger Country by Nina Raine at the Hampstead Theatre

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

Jane Macnaughton reviews Tiger Country: At the opening of Nina Raine’s new play about life in an acute hospital, Emily, the new junior doctor in A&E appears with a copy of the Oxford Handbook of Medicine stuffed in the pocket … Continue reading →

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Tilery Lanterns 2011

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

Day Four There is to be an open lantern workshop on Saturday, from 10.00am until 3.00pm. Gilly and I aren’t going to be there. It is an opportunity to hand over the reins to the core group, with the support … Continue reading →

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Aesthetics of Touch and the Medical Humanities

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

“Literature Between Medicine and Religion: Herder’s Aesthetics of Touch and the Emerging Field of Medical Humanities,” by CMH researcher Michael Mack, has recently been published in volume 94 of Neophilologus. The abstract reads as follows: “This article uses a reading … Continue reading →

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Clive Parkinson Seminar 16 February

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

The Centre for Medical Humanities presents the first research seminar of 2011: The Brightly Coloured Bell Jar Clive Parkinson, Director of Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University 5:15pm to 7:00pm, 16 February 2011, Birley Room, Hatfield College Doctors in … Continue reading →

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East Asia Medical Humanities Network

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

Toshitaka Adachi editor of the East Asian Medical Humanities (EAMHN)_Newsletter_No3.(Jan. 2011), writes: “EAMHN is a very young scholarly network established in Beijing in 2009. The primarily mission of the establishment is to create a platform for academics, practitioners and institutions … Continue reading →

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CFP: Mastering the Emotions Conference, June 2011

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

Mastering the Emotions: Control, Contagion and Chaos, 1800 to the Present Day 16th-17th June 2011, Queen Mary, University of London CALL FOR PAPERS – DEADLINE 14th February 2011 Download the Mastering the Emotions CFP * Keynote Speakers * Sally Shuttleworth, … Continue reading →

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Medicine and Philosophy: A Twenty-First Century Introduction

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

Medicine and Philosophy: A Twenty-First Century Introduction, by Ingvar Johansson and Niels Lynøe, is now available for free download. From the publishers’ web site: “This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly … Continue reading →

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