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Brocher Foundation: ‘Residencies on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of new medical developments’, Switzerland

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The Brocher Foundation is located on the shores of the Geneva Lake, in Hermance (Geneva -Switzerland). The Brocher Foundation residencies last between one and four months. They give researchers the opportunity to work at the Brocher Centre on projects on the ethical, legal and social implications for humankind of recent medical research and new technologies. Every month a dozen of visiting researchers live… Continue reading →

Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities, University of Glasgow

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Announcing a new Wellcome-Trust funded project headed by Dr Gavin Miller, Director of the Medical Humanities Research Centre in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. The project investigates the significance of science fiction for the medical humanities, and is intended to pathfind for a future, large-scale research project. Science fiction isn’t confined to novels,… Continue reading →

Digitisation of Gartnavel Royal Hospital records, Glasgow

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In 2014, the University of Glasgow was awarded funding from the Wellcome Trust to digitise the records of Gartnavel Royal Hospital. The project aims to digitise thousands of documents including photographs, in-house staff publications, administrative papers, financial documents and patient records. Staff and patient records from 1914 onwards will not be digitised due to data… Continue reading →