Category Archives: CMH Publications

Spirituality, Theology and Mental Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (New Book edited by Prof Chris Cook

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

Spirituality, Theology and Mental Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives edited by Professor Chris Cook is now available for pre-order (£45.00). In 2010 a Durham conference on Spirituality, Theology & Mental Health was made possible by support from the Guild of Health. The conference was attended by more … Continue reading →

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“Reimagining Birth”: An International Research Symposium on the Visual Culture/Art/History/Design of Childbirth in the 21st Century (CFP, Conference, Dublin, 2–3 July 2013)

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

Call for Papers  ‘Reimagining Birth’: An International Research Symposium on the Visual Culture/Art/History/Design of Childbirth in the 21st century  University College Dublin  2nd-3rd July 2013  Developed and hosted by UCD PhD Candidates Doreen Balabanoff and Martina Hynan  How has childbirth been portrayed/represented/imagined … Continue reading →

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Medical Humanities in Europe (Special Issue, Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology on Medical Humanities, 2012))

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Medical Humanities in Europe In March last year (2012), Professor Roberto Malacrida secured funding to invite scholars from a number of European countries and aligned with the medical humanities to meet to collaborate on a writing project. Roberto has been … Continue reading →

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Health Illness and Disease: Announcing a new collection of philosophical essays

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

 Health, Illness and Disease: Philosophical Essays Edited by Havi Carel and Rachel Cooper Published by Acumen in 2012 What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease … Continue reading →

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Neurocritiques? Neuroentanglements? Thinking through collaboration with cognitive neuro-sciences/scientists

Posted on December 10, 2012 by

On November 29, a group of us gathered at the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal – on a day that felt very cold to me (-15 degrees C), but probably far from cold … Continue reading →

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‘Two by Two: A Timeline of Twins’ – New Article by William Viney, Cabinet 47, 2012.

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

One of CMH’s Postdoctoral Research Fellows has had an article published in Cabinet, a quarterly journal of arts and culture based in New York. The piece revives the idea of the timeline but takes a subject that is rarely thought to be simply chronological: twins. … Continue reading →

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‘Recovery’ in mental health: who judges, on what grounds, with what evidence, and which arguments?

Posted on October 1, 2012 by

The medical humanities have contributed greatly to research that addresses – conceptually, historically and empirically – whose perspective(s) are (and should be) privileged when judging the contours of illness and health. One research arena in which these questions currently have … Continue reading →

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Introducing ‘Frissure’ – New Work by Kathleen Jamie and Brigid Collins

Posted on September 12, 2012 by

Kathleen Jamie is a writer and poet and currently holds the Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. In 2012 she was a visiting fellow at Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study as part of The Recovery of … Continue reading →

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Schizophrenia: Does Talk of Genes and Brains Really Stop a Mother’s Blame?

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

This week, colleagues from the King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry and I have published a qualitative research paper that analyses, for the first time, how relatives of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia talk about genes to explain the … Continue reading →

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The letter to the scientific/medical editor: a neglected genre within medical humanities?

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

This month’s (August’s) edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry features an editorial entitled, “Antipsychotics: is it time to introduce patient choice?”.  The authors (Anthony P Morrison, Paul Hutton, David Shiers and Douglas Turkington) make an important and provocative argument (given the … Continue reading →

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