by Natalie Goodison What’s fascinating about this paper is that it’s a collaboration between geneticists and medievalists—and this very rich perspective led me to rethink what the Middle Ages considered fact/fictitious. It begins with a fictional story, within which a woman gives birth to a lump of flesh. When I first read about this lump, […]
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Let’s NOT Talk About Death: Review of ‘Euforia’, Directed by Valeria Golino, Italy 2018
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Material Medicine: Objects and Bodies– AMH Conference 2019
We are pleased to announce the CFP for the Association of Medical Humanities (UK) 2019 conference. CFP below; Read more here. Call for Papers We kindly encourage you to submit a proposal for presentation addressing one or more of the below-mentioned topics for the AMH Material Objects Conference 2019. The conference reflects on medical humanities practices […]
Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory
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Cinema Bellissimo: Italian Cinema in London 2019
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Call of Interest: Collaborative Irish Medical Illustration Project
The libraries and cultural heritage units of Trinity College Dublin, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and University College Dublin are planning a collaborative digitisation project in 2019 and we would like to hear your opinion/thoughts/research interest in it. This collaborative project entails making available online a unique and distinct archival collection of Dublin medical […]
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Prescribing Art: An interview with Victoria Hume, Director of the Culture, Health, and Well-being Alliance
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