Tag Archives: Poetry

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Entries are now open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, which is for unpublished poems in English of up to 50 lines text, excluding title and line spacing.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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Water, Waste, Disease & the Arts (Event, Exeter, 10 December 2013)

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities
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Entries are open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize (Poetry and Medicine)

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

With a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of £5,000, the Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. In its first 4 years, the Hippocrates Prize has … Continue reading →

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Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Jonathan Shay (Public Lecture, Durham, Tuesday 18 June 2013)

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Jonathan Shay Tuesday 18 June 2013, 5.30 pm (please note correct date) Room CG60 Department of Chemistry, Lower Mountjoy, Durham University (please note changed location) Slide from the 2002 Documentary Achilles … Continue reading →

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‘What is Dragon’s Blood? And where do I get some?’

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Originally posted on Kelley Swain:
Photo c/o Babs Guthrie; L – R, background, Anna Maerker; Kelley Swain, Henrike Scholten, Babs Guthrie; foreground, Eleanor Crook and assorted waxworks. The above title/quote is one of the comments left in the guest book…

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The S Factor (A Poem by Sandy Jeffs)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The S Factor For Heidi Sometimes Craziness creates a Heightened Illumination of the Zeitgeist Originality its Privilege Humour its Revenge Every outsider Nonconformist work of art is an Ingenious Act of lunacy. © Sandy Jeffs 2013 Sandy Jeffs is an … Continue reading →

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Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Jonathan Shay (Public Lecture, Durham, 18 June 2013)

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Homeric Epic and the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Jonathan Shay Tuesday 18 June 2013, 5.30 pm Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Durham Law School, Palatine Centre, Durham University Slide from the 2002 Documentary Achilles in Vietnam http://www.achillesinvietnam.com/ Dr Jonathan Shay … Continue reading →

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‘Nursing the nation’ by Molly Case

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

A stunning poem performed my Molly Case at the Royal College of Nursing Congress 2013

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Voicewalks: A Collaboration between Hearing the Voice and Stepaway Magazine (Call for creative submissions, 1 August 2013)

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

How do we experience the voices in our minds? How do voices help or hinder our navigation of familiar and unfamiliar spaces, when wandering alone or when moving through a crowd? Where do ‘hallucinated’ voices come from and how are … Continue reading →

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