Medact archive now available for research
The Wellcome Library is delighted to announce that the archive of the Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons (MCANW), later Medact, has been catalogued (SA/MED) and is now available for research. The...
View ArticleReview of Visualising Illness at Birkbeck, November 14th -15th 2014, by Jac...
What is distinctive about the visual image as a means of communicating the experience of illness? As an artist working within the field of Medical Humanities this is a question that is very close to my...
View ArticleDrawing Out Obstetric Fistula: art and medicine research
I am now in Tanzania based at CCBRT in Dar es Salaam. We are exploring the potential of art and narrative, both verbal and visual, to raise awareness of the huge problem in Africa of obstetric...
View ArticleCMH Affiliates’ Lunches (St Chad’s College, Durham University, 29 January 2pm)
The first Affiliates’ Lunch of 2015 is on Thursday, 29th January from 12-2pm at St Chad’s College. We are holding four meetings this year, each focused on an interdisciplinary theme which we hope will...
View ArticleAnnouncing Working Knowledge: Practical Resources for Interdisciplinary Research
Interdisciplinary research: intermittently theorised, frequently funded, increasingly valorised. But how is it actually done? In order to explore answers to this question, and in collaboration with the...
View ArticleThe Life of Breath Project in the Lancet Respiratory
CMH is pleased to annouce the latest article published from the Life of Breath Project in the Lancet Respiratory: Invisible suff ering: breathlessness in and beyond the clinic written by Havi Carel,...
View ArticleVisual Culture in Medical Humanities (Workshop, Durham University, 18th June)
This one-day workshop is designed to explore the intricate connections between two dynamic fields and the ways in which fruitful collaborations could be set up between them. It will also invite...
View ArticleDrawings from Visual Culture in the Medical Humanities seminar: June 18th, 2015
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View ArticleAHRC network on health and social care prioritisation and funding (University...
Medicine, markets and morals (MMM) is a multi-disciplinary research network on health and social care prioritisation and funding, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), led by Dr...
View ArticleMaking the Invisible Visible – launch of the Life of Breath project (Durham...
Making the Invisible Visible Join us to celebrate the Durham launch of the Life of Breath research project. Diverse project collaborators, ranging from an artist to an archaeologist, will discuss what...
View Article“Dying Well”: Enacting Medical Ethics (Symposium, Barts Pathology Museum,...
This symposium adopts a cross-disciplinary approach to on-going debates on end-of-life care. Medical professionals, lawyers, ethicists, policy makers, humanities scholars, cultural practitioners and...
View ArticleHow Do You Rest? A national survey by Hubbub.
(4 November 2015) The British public are being invited to share their experiences of rest as part of a national ‘Rest Test’. The Rest Test is an online survey to investigate the nation’s resting habits...
View Article“The Anatomy of Rest” (Hubbub 3-part BBC Radio 4 series; 13, 20, 27 September...
Hubbub’s interdisciplinary research on rest is brought together in a three-part series — “The Anatomy of Rest” — on BBC Radio 4 that is being broadcast at 0900-0945 (GMT+1) on 13, 20, 27 September. The...
View ArticleCall for New Members: METADAC Data Access Committee (Deadline: 14 Nov 2016)
The METADAC (Managing Ethico-social, Technical and Administrative issues in Data ACcess) Data Access Committee is currently accepting applications from researchers (qualitative and quantitative),...
View ArticleShame and Medicine (Project Launch, Trinity College Dublin)
The Shame and Medicine Project is an engagement between medical practitioners, social scientists, philosophers and medical humanities scholars seeking to investigate the role of shame in the context of...
View Article‘Can you help me, doctor? How patient requests changed birth and death in the...
Hieke Huistra, Alumni of the CMH New Generations programme, has recently been awarded a grant for the research project below. She is seeking possibilities for exchange/collaboration with researchers...
View Article“Talking Twins”– short film (CfP, London, 29th July 2016)
Call for participants, deadline: Friday 29th July 2016 We need you: Are you twins with a story to tell? We are looking for twins of all ages, genders, religions, ethnicities, identical, fraternal,...
View ArticleNorthern Network for Medical Humanities Research (Workshop, York Medical...
The Northern Network for Medical Humanities is very pleased to announce that registration is now open for the final workshop in the current series organised by the Northern Network for Medical...
View ArticleEngagement, Co-production, and Collaborative Meaning-Making: Collaboration in...
The third UCL Qualitative Health Research Network Symposium, supported by the Wellcome Trust, will bring together researchers from around the world. Discussion will focus on increasing calls for...
View ArticleExperiments in collaboration: rethinking the human sciences in (or for?) an...
Des Fitzgerald, Hazel Morrison and Felicity Callard are convening an open panel on “Experiments in Collaboration” for Science in Public, the 11th Annual Science in Public Conference, to be held in...
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