Visiting Speaker: Dr Carla Meurk, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Is addiction neuroscience useful? A perspectival critique of the neurocentric vision of addiction Date: Monday 7th September 2015 Time: 1.00-2.00pm Location: Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Teviot Place, Edinburgh Neuroscience research on the effects of chronic drug use on brain function have been… Continue reading
We’d like to alert you to the first UK speaking tour for the author Samuel Shem – who has written possibly one of (if not the) the most influential medical novels in the 20th century. Professor Stephen Bergman (real name for Shem) and his wife/co-author Janet Surrey are doing some formal Medical Humanities events in Oxford… Continue reading
You are invited to join the next seminar in our Spring Series on Wednesday 25th February at 4.00 for 4.30pm: ‘The Shape of Things to Come’: The politics of planning new hospitals in inter war England and France, Professor Barry Doyle (Professor of Health History, University of Huddersfield) Venue: CEE7, Centre for Executive Education Building… Continue reading
The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH), Glasgow Caledonian University The first CSHHH seminar of 2015 will be on 4th February when we welcome Professor Christine Hallett of Manchester University at 4:30 pm (4pm for refreshments) in the Centre for Executive Education, room 07 (CEE07) on the GCU Campus. A brief abstract… Continue reading
All are warmly invited to attend the next talk in the School of Modern Languages and Culture Research Seminar Series at 1pm, Wed 26th Nov, r317 Hetherington Building. University of Glasgow. A map is available here. Dr Allan Beveridge, University of Edinburgh, Queen Margaret Hospital, will present the following paper: ‘”Is Everyone Mad?” The Depiction of… Continue reading
This week the Sociology subject area hosts its final seminar of the semester. This will be given by our very own Dr. Teresa Piacentini on ‘An Intersectional Approach to Analysing Intercultural Communication in Health Care Settings: Findings from Glasgow’ (abstract below). The seminar will take place on Wednesday 26th November from 4-5:30pm in room 916,… Continue reading
Date: 8pm, 17th November 2014 Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2JL (the venue is accessible for wheelchair users) Lecture and discussion: Did you know that the world’s first multi-articulated bionic hand was invented in Edinburgh? Do you want to find out more? Then come to November’s Café Scientifique to meet the… Continue reading
Please register for the CSHHH Annual Lecture ‘Men and Women Under Stress’, at 5pm on 12th November 2014. Professor Mark Jackson BSc MB BS PhD, Professor of the History of Medicine and Research Theme Leader for Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter and currently Senior Academic Adviser (Medical Humanities) at the Wellcome Trust is this year’s speaker.… Continue reading
We’re delighted to announce that more tickets have been released for Larry Gostin’s address and book signing at the Playfair Library, Edinburgh, at 4pm on 27th October 2014. Professor Gostin will be discussing Ebola and global health systems, within the context of global health law. His latest comment from The Lancet is available here. All are welcome… Continue reading
