Are you interested in doctoral study in the medical humanities? At the Medical Humanities Research Centre here in Glasgow University, we are looking for applicants to enter the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities AHRC Doctoral competition. At the discretion of the Medical Humanities Research Centre, applicants may also be supported for the later… Continue reading
Save the date: the Northern Network for Medical Humanities will be holding a Glasgow research workshop meeting on Friday 22nd January 2016. The day will be a showcase for research in the medical humanities in Glasgow, and will be followed by the launch of the Glasgow University Medical Humanities Research Network Website. If you have any… Continue reading
Date: 1pm, 2nd December 2015 Location: Room 317, Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow As part of the University of Glasgow’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures Research Seminars, Dr Sheila Dickson will be presenting on he work on the history of psychiatry. Dr Dickson’s paper is entitled ‘The development of Psychiatry as Medical Specialism in the Enlightenment period:… Continue reading
Date: 5pm, 23rd February 2016 Location: Murray Room, 65 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow As part of the University of Glasgow’s Classic Research Seminars, Dr Thomas Rütten, Reader at Newcastle, will be presenting on his work on the history of medicine. The talk will be followed by wine reception and dinner. All are welcome! For more information, please contact Dr Sophia… Continue reading
27th Novemeber 2015 University of Glasgow What are the uses and abuses of science fiction in the aim of public engagement with medicine? We can assess science fiction as if it were entertainment education, distinguishing beween legitimate extrapolation and genre misrepresentation. But are there more productive ways of thinking about how science fiction engages with… Continue reading
Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts University of Glasgow | Friday 11th September 2015 We have finalised the schedule and are counting down to the conference! Please download the schedule here. We are really excited by the diversity of the attendees who have registered so far and by the range and standard of the research being presented. We… Continue reading
Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ 9am-6pm, Friday 11 September 2015 Registration is open for ‘Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts’ conference, to be hosted by the University of Glasgow on Friday 11 Sept 2015. Thanks to funding from the Wellcome Trust, there is no fee to attend the… Continue reading
Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts Sir Alwyn Williams Building, Lilybank Gardens University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ 9am-6pm, Friday 11 September 2015 This interdisciplinary conference draws together two emerging and complementary areas of research in the medical humanities: book history (as it pertains to medical texts), and the study of medical paratexts. We understand paratext… Continue reading
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
School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow Job Purpose This is a 1-year part-time research position to contribute to the Wellcome Trust funded research project investigating the relationship between science fiction and the medical humanities. The project pathfinds for a future large-scale research project by developing a portfolio of exploratory activities and outputs. The Research… Continue reading
