Tag Archives: film

Before and Since (the Wound) – Visualising the Experience of Pain

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Jac Saorsa

In painting the image of a child dying of hunger, my aim is not to make a re-presentation of a child dying of hunger, or to elicit or express what it feels like to watch a child dying of hunger. … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts in Health, Ideas | Tagged arts, arts in health, bodies, film, imagination and creativity, interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary, medical humanities, mind body affect | Leave a comment

Hitching Arts in Health on the Road to Nowhere

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Mike White writes: The country road in Australia is mostly A to B straight on and can seem to traverse interplanetary distance. Crossing the aboriginal lands of ‘first nation’ people, however, it is a road to nowhere as highlighted in … Continue reading →

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Cyborg-Ethics Film Festival (Edinburgh, 22 – 24 Nov 2013)

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Cyborg-Ethics Film Festival | Filmhouse, Edinburgh | 22 – 24 Nov 2013 How far can human beings go, when replacing their body parts with that of machines, before they become cyborgs? Will humanity eventually become obsolete? Should individuals download themselves … Continue reading →

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The Subject of Addiction: Culture & Clinic (CFP, Conference, Nottingham, 11–12 September 2014)

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Call For Papers International Conference: The Subject of Addiction – Culture and Clinic The University of Nottingham, September 11-12 2014 It is almost a commonplace to note the connections between drug-use and creative practices, from Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Conferences | Tagged addiction, CFP, conference, drugs, film, health humanities, medical humanities, psychoanalysis, subjectivity | Leave a comment

In and ‘out of focus’: IUAES conference, August 2013, with perspectives from 69 nations

Posted on August 15, 2013 by anniRaw

Entering the foyer of the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester last week was an immersion into a world of multiple realities, cheek to cheek: expressed in the contrasting colours and cuts of clothing, and the colliding cross rhythms of numerous languages. … Continue reading →

Posted in Arts in Health, Conferences, Ideas, Research Collaborations, Review | Tagged arts, arts in health, conference, film, flourishing, international collaborations | 1 Comment

Designer Vaginas and the ethics of labia surgery (British Science Festival Event, 10 September, Newcastle)

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Tuesday 10th September, 6pm-8pm Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG Map As part of the British Science Festival, this event explores the ethics of plastic surgery in the UK, with particular focus on the increasing trend … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | Tagged arts, bodies, centrefold, feminism, film, labiaplasty, medical ethics, plastic surgery | 1 Comment

Review – Desert Runners (2013)

Posted on June 30, 2013 by William Viney

Some materialists are fond of pointing out that we are things among countless other human and non-human things. Composed of all that cellular stuff, we are never quite ourselves, never exactly contemporary with every aspect of what we might call … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas, Review | Tagged Desert Runners, film, Jennifer Steinman, review, Richard Cheetham, Samantha Gash | 2 Comments

The Camera as Mirror: Movie-Making in Palliative Care (Film Screening & Discussion, Edinburgh, 19 March 2013)

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The Camera as Mirror: Movie-Making in Palliative Care Documentary film and discussion with Dr Amy Hardie Tuesday 19th March 2013 6-7.30pm followed by wine reception Lecture Theatre 183, Old College, University of Edinburgh The film is 45 minutes long, following … Continue reading →

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Anti-Psychiatry and Its Legacies: Live-Streamed Panel Discussions from Nottingham Contemporary (12 & 13 February 2013)

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Anti-Psychiatry and Its Legacies Nottingham Contemporary Tue 12 and Wed 13 February, 6-9pm Recordings of these Livestreamed discussions are now available Piero Gilardi’s work with marginalised communities, including those confined to mental hospitals, was influenced by Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia … Continue reading →

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Wonder: Art and Science on the Brain (London, Spring 2013)

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Originally posted on h-madness:
The understanding of human thought, emotion, behaviour and expression are common to both neuroscience – the study of the brain and the nervous system – and to many artists working across visual arts, music, theatre, performance…