UK Blog Awards 2014
Join the conversation
Error: Twitter did not respond. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.
-
Recent Posts
- Exhibition by people with neurological impairments: “In the Realm of Others”
- Book announcement – Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750-2010
- Medical Humanities at Umeå University, Sweden – a Special Issue of Kulturella Perspektiv (Cultural Perspectives)
- Disability and Disciplines: The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies (CfP, Conference, 1-2 July 2014)
- Reminder: British Society for Literature and Science (CfP, Liverpool, 16-18 April 2014)
Meta
Tag Archives: medical humanities
Medical Humanities at Umeå University, Sweden – a Special Issue of Kulturella Perspektiv (Cultural Perspectives)
Britta Lundgren is professor of Ethnology at the Department of Culture and Media Studies at Umeå University in Sweden. She is currently working with the project “Epidemics, Vaccination, and the Power of Narratives”, financed by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged Britta Lundgren, Kulturella Perspektiv, medical humanities, Umea
Leave a comment
Notes from Galveston 2014: Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas
Back in Galveston! Invited again by the wonderful folk at the University of Texas Centre for Medical Humanities to spend another month working here on the Drawing Women’s Cancer project (drawingcancer.wordpress.com). I am delighted to be back on the island … Continue reading
Social Foundations of Health: Applications for Vanderbilt MA Programme Now Open
The Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University is accepting applications to the M.A. program in the Social Foundations of Health. The Vanderbilt University Center for Medicine, Health, and Society is a cutting-edge research and teaching center that … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements
Tagged health inequalities, medical humanities, postgraduate
Leave a comment
Medical and Merchant networks: Ireland, Spain, and Spanish America (PhD Funding, Queen’s University Belfast)
One Department for Employment & Learning (DEL) award is available for full-time postgraduate PhD research in the School of Modern Languages, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Queen’s University Belfast. Project title: Medical and Merchant networks: Ireland, Spain, and Spanish America … Continue reading
Posted in PhD Studentships
Tagged history of medicine, medical humanities, postgrduage
Leave a comment
Doctoral Studentship: ‘Representing Communities: Developing the Creative Power of People to Improve Health and Well-being’ at University of Leeds
A funding opportunity at the University of Leeds for someone wanting to do PhD research on how questions of community health and wellbeing interact with twentieth-century literary fictions. The doctoral researcher will conduct an in-depth study of health and wellbeing … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, PhD Studentships
Tagged arts in health, community, funding, Leeds, literature, medical humanities, PhD, research
Leave a comment
Before and Since (the Wound) – Visualising the Experience of Pain
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
Hitching Arts in Health on the Road to Nowhere
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
Posted in Arts in Health, Ideas
Tagged arts in health, film, ideas, indigenous, medical humanities, review
Leave a comment
Death in Scotland, from the medieval to the modern: beliefs, attitudes and practices (Conference, Edinburgh, 31 Jan – 2 Feb 2014)
Download the Death in Scotland Conference 2014 programme
Posted in Conferences
Tagged anthropology, art history, death, history of medicine, material culture, medical humanities, theology, visual culture
Leave a comment
Alternative Psychiatric Narratives: Exploring non-traditional texts, voices, and spaces
Alternative Psychiatric Narratives is a conference taking place at Birkbeck on 16-17 May 2014. One of its convenors, PhD candidate Janet Weston, considers some of its themes in relation to her own research. When I began my PhD research … Continue reading
Angela Woods
ankemaatz
anniRaw
ben kasstan
Centre for Medical Humanities
Felicity Callard
howellmevans
Jac Saorsa
Mary Robson
Renae Coles
niallhodson
Poppy van Oorde-Grainger
Jane Macnaughton
sarahatkinson2013
Simon McCarthy-Jones
William Viney
Centre for Medical Humanities Blog 