Words, environments and resources for a supportable system. These are the themes adopted for the event organised by ISTUD Foundation. The event will occur on 13th December 2016 from 5 PM to 7 PM, at Palazzo delle Stelline, corso Magenta 61, Milan. “Toward an ecological healthcare” is a concept that means a system of cares that is respectful of… Continue reading
Date: 5-7pm, Friday 2nd Dec 2016 Location: Room 108, Hamish Wood Building, Glasgow Caledonian University You are warmly invited to the next CSHHH workshop, co-organised with the RSE Young Academy of Scotland’s Health and Wellbeing group, which will explore how we might use historical research and knowledge to inform current debates and policy on health inequalities in… Continue reading
Date: 13th April 2017 Location: Highfield House, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus Reading Bodies, Writing Minds is a one-day conference to be held at the University of Nottingham on 13 April 2017. The conference will investigate representations from the arts and social sciences of suffering, seeing, and treating mental illness. This interdisciplinary event is intended… Continue reading
Professor Jane Taylor (University of Leeds): “Newes From the Dead: An Unnatural Moment from the History of Natural Philosophy” Date: Thursday 10 Nov at 5.30pm, Location: Room 408, Gilmorehill Hall (9 University Avenue), Theatre Studies, University of Glasgow In 1650 (the year of Descartes’ death) a young woman was hanged in Oxford for infanticide. Rather remarkably, she… Continue reading
The Leverhulme Trust Collections research group at the University of Glasgow invite you to attend the first annual public event of the Human Constellations project, showcasing developments in collaborations across our group’s research on collections and collecting practices. Join us for our first annual public event with guest speaker Professor Hayden Lorimer (University of Glasgow) and… Continue reading
Disability and Diversity: taking the twin track to inclusion Professor Tom Shakespeare, Professor of Disability Research, Norwich Medical School Tuesday 25 October 2016 Lyndsey Stewart Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, Glenlockhart Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ Lecture begins at 5.30pm followed by refreshments How much is required to enable disabled people to participate fully… Continue reading
Mental Cases: Nurses, Doctors, Poets and War Trauma at Craiglockhart, Edinburgh Napier Tuesday 11 October 2016, 16:00 – 18:00 The Royal College of Nurses is hosting Mental Cases: Nurses, Doctors, Poets and War Trauma at Craiglockhart as part of our centenary programme and we would be delighted if you would be able to join us.… Continue reading
The UK Medical Heritage Library is making 68,000 19th century texts relating to the history of medicine freely available to all. We’re working with the Wellcome Library on this three-year project along with nine other UK universities who are all contributing content to this collection. The collection is openly available via the Wellcome Library and the Internet… Continue reading
Towards Transcultural Histories of Psychotherapies: A One day International Conference Location: UCL Health Humanities Centre / Institute of Advanced Studies Date: 15 October 2016 Suspended between science, medicine, religion, art and philosophy, the advent of modern psychotherapies represents one of the distinctive features of 20th-century Western societies, and they are increasing being exported to the rest of… Continue reading
Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Workshop – York, 22 September 2016 Registration is open for the final workshop in the current series organised by the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research, at York Medical Society on 22 September 2016. Supported by the Wellcome Trust, the workshops are a showcase of work in progress designed to help build connections… Continue reading
