University College Cork, July 9-11, 2012The 2012 conference of the Association for Medical Humanities will take place at University College Cork, Ireland, with the kind support of the Wellcome Trust. Organised in conjunction with the Consortium for Med…
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01/30/2012
Sublime Body seeks performers
A newly formed Arts Organisation called Parlour Arts is looking for artists and performers for their upcoming exhibition, “The Sublime Body”. The exhibition will take place in the Parlour Space in Kentish Town 27th February- 4th March. They have alread…
01/21/2012
Classics for ethics?
I’ve been invited to deliver a masterclass in using classical literature to teach ethics at the Institute of Medical Ethics Conference next month. I’m really looking forward to it, not least because three former students are up for th…
01/18/2012
Medfest 2012
News of a wonderful medically themed film festival touring the UK. This is the second year of the festival which aims to provoke debate on the ethics and politics of doctors on film. This year’s theme is ‘HealthScreen – understanding illness through fi…
01/15/2012
Blog redesign
When this blog was started some eight years ago, it was envisaged as a place where students from the Imperial College Medical Humanities course could share their writing and any medical humanities activities. This worked well for many years, but since …
01/15/2012
Comics & Medicine: Navigating the Margins
22-24 July 2012Toronto, CanadaFaculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Biomedical Communications Program, University of Toronto, Office of the Vice-Principal, Research, University of Toronto, MississaugaThe third international interdisciplinary confe…