Four films exploring our darkest fears about objectification, fragmentation and intersection: Weds 11 May: Coma (Michael Crichton, 1978) Tues 24…
Embarrassing Bodies: Feeling Self-Conscious in the Nineteenth Century
Friday 17 June 2016 09.30 – 17.30 Keynes Library, School of Arts Why were the Victorians so keenly aware of…
Medical Objects: An interdisciplinary enquiry
Current cultural debates in the fields of object theory and affect theory offer valuable perspectives on how medical equipment complicates…
Reading Group, Summer 2016: Medicine and Care
The Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group aims to create a space in which academics, clinicians and students can come together…
Conceiving Histories: launch event 16 May 2016
Details: Day – 16th May 2016; Time – 6-7.30; Place – 43 Gordon Square. Sign up for a free place…
CHASE Medical Humanities Network inaugural workshop: 13 May 2016
Across the CHASE Consortium institutions, radical and innovative research within the burgeoning field of Medical Humanities is being undertaken. The…
Zoë Playdon, ‘Mind the Gap: Traditional Indigenous Knowledge, Heterotopias, and Apocalyptic Desire’
We are pleased to publish here a paper by Zoë Playdon, Emeritus Professor of Medical Humanities, University of London, which…
