Medical Humanities Discussion Group

Our Glasgow medical humanities discussion group meets regularly throughout the year. The discussion group is currently organised and convened by Dr Hannah-Louise Clark, Lecturer in Global Economic and Social History. The Medical Humanities Discussion Group exists to provide a forum for interdisciplinary exchange and convivial discussion around work in-progress, bringing together students, staff, and practitioners. We are delighted to announce the following upcoming events, which take place in the Hetherington Building, room 129, at 1pm. All are welcome!

Any enquiries about the Medical Humanities Discussion Group should be addressed to: Dr. Hannah-Louise Clark, Lilybank House, University of Glasgow, G12 8RT, Hannah-louise.clark@glasgow.ac.uk

Please see details of the sessions below.

30 January – Moira Hansen, University of Glasgow. “’O’er all the ills of life victorious’: aspects of disordered mood in the poetry of Robert Burns”

13 February – Dr. Dahlia Porter, University of Glasgow, “Catalogues and the Organization of Life in the Hunterian Museum, London”

Please Note: Professor Desmond’s talk will take place in the Lilybank House seminar room.

3 April – Professor Jane Desmond, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Medical Humanities across the Species Line: When the Patient is a Dog, or Cow, or Parrot”.

Past presentations include:

Dr Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (University of Strathclyde), ‘Intimate narratives of pregnancy testing’

Joe Bouch (University of Glasgow), ‘Engaging reflexively with Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing

Sarah Spence (University of Glasgow), ‘Postnatal depression vs anorexia in Sarah Moss’s Night Waking (2011)’

Charlotte Orr (University of Glasgow), ‘The self-construction of the scientist in Sir Ronald Ross’s Memoirs: with a full account of the great malaria problem’

Dr Petya Eckler (University of Strathclyde), ‘Body Image, Disordered Eating and Social Media: A Research Agenda on Future Directions’

Dr Zaman Shahaduz (University of Glasgow) ‘Common or multiple futures for end of life care interventions around the world? Ideas from ‘Waiting room of History’

Dr Douglas Small (University of Glasgow), “Cocaine, Edward Weston, and Victorian Sports Doping”

Sarah Phelan (University of Glasgow), “The ‘Dream Books’ and 1930s Glasgow Psychiatry: Untangling Psychoanalytic and ‘Common Sense’ Patient Narratives”

Louise Boyle (University of Glasgow), “‘I’ve just got to keep myself together …’: The psycho-social geographies of living and coping with Social Anxiety Disorder”

Dr Matthew Smith (University of Strathclyde), “History in Action: Social Psychiatry in Contemporary, Political Perspective”

Dr Jane Draycott (University of Glasgow), “Prostheses in Ancient Greece and Rome”

Molly Ziegler (University of Glasgow), “Shakespeare and Madness: dramaturgies of mental illness in early modern England”

Staff from Archives and Special Collections (University of Glasgow), “Discovering Medical Humanities Collections”

Dr Ian Shaw (University of Glasgow), “The Psychopolitics of Surplus Populations”

Megan Donald (University of Glasgow), “From animal companionship to animal husbandry: exploring a more-than-human ethics for veterinary medical humanities”

Prof. Alexander Kosenina (Leibniz-University Hanover), “Bedlam and Beyond: Madhouse Tourism in the 18th Century”

Dr Anna Mcfarlane (University of Glasgow), “Inequality in Medical Science Fiction”

Arden Hegele (University of Columbia), “University of Pathography and Romanticism”

Dr Mia Spiro (University of Glasgow), “Between two Worlds: The Possessing Spirit of The Dybbuk in Interwar Jewish Theatre”

Dr Emma Laurie (University of Glasgow), “Health and Human Rights: Easier in theory than in practice”

Prof. Stephen Burn (University of Glasgow), “Contemporary American Fiction and Neuroscience”

Dr Jenny Eklof (Umeå universitet), “A New Panacea: The Emergence of Mindfulness Science”

Dr Donna McCormack (University of Leeds), “A Haunting Imaginary of Organ Transplantation”

Jac Saorsa (https://jacsaorsa.wordpress.com/), “The Power of the Visual: The Artist in Medicine”

Dr Cheryl McGeachan (University of Glasgow), “A Tapestry of Tales: Investigating the Historical Geographies of Art Therapy and the ‘Art Extraordinary’ in Scotland (1950-1980)”

Dr Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow), “The Medical Blackwoodians: Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press”

Dr Claire McKechnie (Glasgow Centre for Population Health), “Narrative, Community Health, and Medical Humanities”

Dr Hannah Tweed (University of Glasgow), “Poor Things: Diagnosis and Paratext’

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