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Category Archives: Seminar
Space and Place in the Health Humanities, plus a Masterclass on the Geography of a Dance Intervention – Prof Sarah Atkinson (Seminar, Edinburgh, 23 Jan 2014)
The sixth Scottish Health Humanities Seminar and Masterclass will be on Thursday 23 January 2014. Prof Sarah Atkinson, Deptartment of Geography, Durham University. Co-Director of Belief, Understanding and Wellbeing, Wolfson Research Institute, and Associate Director, Centre for Medical Humanities Public Seminar: Space and … Continue reading
Jonathan M. Metzl – ‘The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia’ (Lecture, Durham University, 4th April 2014)
Professor Jonathan M. Metzl, Director of the Centre for Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt University – ‘The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia’ A public lecture presented by the Centre for Medical Humanities to be held at … Continue reading
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Tagged Incarceration, Jonathan M. Metzl, mental health, psychosis, race, schizophrenia
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Ted Schrecker ‘A tale of two controversies: Standards of proof in health policy’ (Seminar, Durham University, 29 Jan 2014)
A tale of two controversies: Standards of proof in health policy Professor Ted Schrecker 29th January 2014, 4-5pm Pennington Room, Grey College This Durham CELLS seminar will be given by Ted Schrecker who is Professor of Global Health Policy, Durham … Continue reading
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Tagged critical public health, evidence, Health Policy, public health, Ted Schrecker
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Risk in Health and Social Care: Politics, Theory and Practices (CfP, BSA Study Day, 28 Feb 2014)
Risk and Society Study Group Event Friday 28 February 2014, British Sociological Association London Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf CALL FOR PAPERS Risk in Health and Social Care: Politics, Theory and Practices This study day will offer an opportunity for participants … Continue reading
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Tagged BSA, qualiative health research, risk, sociology of health, sociology of medicine
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New cartographies of health in a globalizing world – Ted Schrecker (Seminar, Durham University, 29 Nov 2013)
New cartographies of health in a globalizing world Prof. Ted Schrecker Anthropology Seminar Room, Dawson Building, Durham University Thursday 28 November – 13.00 – 15.00 All Welcome Anthropologists have been distinctively effective in tracing linkages between the macro-scale economic processes … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, critical public health, gloabl health, public health
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Transspecies Entanglements: Animal Assistants in Narratives about the Intellectually Disabled – David Herman (Seminar, Durham, 10th December 2013)
A seminar presented by the Centre for Medical Humanities to be held at Williams Library, St Chad’s College, 5.15—7pm. After surveying work on the definition, history, possible mechanisms, and relative efficacy of Animal-Assisted Activities (AAA) and Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT), this … Continue reading
‘Multiple Methods and Unusual Experiences’ (Medical Humanities Postgraduate & ECR Network Event, Durham, Thursday 5 Dec 2013)
‘Multiple Methods and Unusual Experiences’ Centre for Medical Humanities Post-Graduate and Early Career Network Thursday, 5th December, 2-3:30 pm, CA113 Caedmon Building (on the Hild and Bede College/ School of Education campus, Durham University) Tea and cakes provided What does it … Continue reading
‘Gifts of life, gifts of love’: Inaugural Lecture, Prof Ludmilla Jordanova (5 December, Durham 2013)
Inaugural Lecture: Gifts of life, gifts of love Professor Ludmilla Jordanova 18.00-19.00, Trevelyan College, Durham University Ludmilla Jordanova will draw on her recent and current work on visual culture in both contemporary and historical settings to explore the complicated … Continue reading
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Tagged gift, inaugural, interdisciplinary, Ludmilla Jordanova, organ transplants
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Spirituality, Theology & Health Seminar Programme (2013, Durham University)
Spirituality, Theology & Health seminar programme (Michaelmas 2013) These seminars are open to all staff and students of Durham University and to the general public. However, please be aware that they are aimed at a postgraduate level and are therefore … Continue reading