Jonathan McFarland (Sechenov University) and Irina Markovina (Sechenov University). In October 2017 the 1st The Doctor as a Humanist symposium took place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. At the symposium we posed the questions, “Can the Humanities transform 21st Century Medicine?” The end of the first symposium in Spain was closed with the words, “Thanks […]
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Humanitarian Evidence Week (HEW), 19th-25th November 2018
Humanitarian Evidence Week (HEW) is a week of both virtual and online events co-ordinated by the UK charity, Evidence Aid, which since 2004 has championed evidence-based approaches to humanitarian action. Additional support for HEW 2018 is provided by the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine (CEBM) at the University of Oxford. This annual event takes place in […]
Opening Doors at Drew University
Drew University will be hosting a symposium : ‘Opening Doors: From the Medical to the Health Humanities’ on Friday, March 23rd from 3pm to 8pm at Drew University in Madison, NJ. The theme of the event is an examination of the trajectory and future praxis of the health humanities in US healthcare and healthcare education. […]
James Poskett: Digital surgeons at sea
A few months ago I was raving about the prospects of a maritime history of medicine, the ship’s medicine chest being the focus of some of my latest studies. Since writing that piece, the Wellcome Trust and National Archives have completed the digitisation of the Royal Navy Medical Officers’ journals. The project, entitled Surgeons at […]
Association of Medical Humanities
So where do you go, bedsides straight to our very own journal, website and blog, if you’re a clinician, educator or academic in the UK and Ireland with an interest, or even just a fledgling curiosity, about medical humanities? To the Association of Medical Humanities of course. Following this link to the Association’s website to […]