Tag Archives: literature and medicine

Reading Group on the Pseudo/Sciences of the Long Nineteenth Century (Newcastle, 20 January 2014)

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Centre for Medical Humanities

In what ways did reading character off the skull in phrenology contribute to the birth of neuropsychology? How was the spectacle of the trance in mesmerism linked to the emergence of electricity, magnetism and psychoanalysis? What were the connections between … Continue reading →

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Entries are open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize (Poetry and Medicine)

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Entries are now open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, which is for unpublished poems in English of up to 50 lines text, excluding title and line spacing. With a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of … Continue reading →

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PhD Studentship – Community health and wellbeing in contemporary British fiction and culture – University of Leeds

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

A fully funded PhD studentship, to start in February, as part of an AHRC-ESRC funded project under the Connected Communities research programme has just been announced. Full details are available here. The student will work on a topic entitled ‘Community … Continue reading →

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Medievalism and the Medical Humanities (CfP, Special Issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies)

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Contributions are invited for a special issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies entitled ‘Medievalism and the Medical Humanities’. The issue will be published in the summer of 2017 and will be edited by Dr Jamie McKinstry and … Continue reading →

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Wanted: Lecturer in English (Literature and Medicine) Bristol University

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The University of Bristol invites applications to a full-time permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in English Literature (Literature and Medicine). Candidates who can demonstrate excellence in research in any area of the subject are eligible to apply. There is no restriction … Continue reading →

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Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture (CfP, Conference, Kent, 9-10 May 2014)

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Fear and Loathing: Phobia in Literature and Culture Centre for Gender, Sexuality and Writing, School of English, University of Kent, 9th-10th May 2014 Focusing on the literary and historical representation of irrational emotions or phobias, Fear and Loathing seeks papers … Continue reading →

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Grief. Language. Art. (CfP, Conference, Liverpool, 8-10 July 2014)

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Grief. Language. Art. University of Liverpool, 8-10 July 2014 For my rough sorrows; cease, be dumb and mute, Give up your feet and running to mine eyes, And keep your measures faor some lover’s lute, Whose grief allows him music … Continue reading →

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Reminder: Upcoming Events in the ‘Fashionable Diseases’ project

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Disability and Fashionable Diseases in Literature and Culture Michael Davidson and Stuart Murray 14 November, 2013, Northumbria University Fashion and Illness in Georgian Bath Annick Cossic 21 November 2013, Northumbria University Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832 An … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience and Modern Fiction (CfP, Modern Fiction Studies, Deadline 1 February 2014)

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Modern Fiction Studies Call for Papers: Upcoming Special Issue Neuroscience and Modern Fiction Guest Editor: Stephen J. Burn Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2014 The Editors of MFS seek essays that consider how modern fiction has evolved in dialogue with … Continue reading →

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3 Postdoctoral Fellowships to work on ‘Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives’

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Postdoctoral Research Assistant (3 posts) Faculty of English Language and Literature, Manor Road, Oxford, in association with St Anne’s College Grade 7: £29,541 – £36,298 p.a. Following the award of a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant to Professor Sally … Continue reading →

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