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Upcoming event at the Institute for #MedicalHumanities in Durham, UK:

#Measurement Heretics Workshop
Being, Meaning, and Measuring Well
https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/medical-humanities/events/measurement-heretics-workshop-being-meaning-and-measuring-well/
11.-13.03.2026

Day 1 #hybrid keynote:
A fluid history of measurement: The drop in the metric revolution
Armel Cornu and Sarah Hijmans
[Day2-3 in-person]

#Psychometrics #Wellbeing #MentalHealth @philosophy

"Writing the Brain" by Stefan Schöberlein looks at how C19 literature in Britain & the US incorporated discourses from the emerging neuroscience. Authors discussed incl #GeorgeCombe #CharlesDickens #EmilyDickinson #PlinyEarle #BenjaminRush & #AlfredTennyson

#VictorianStudies #MedicalHumanities

http://arielriverospavez.blog/2025/08/26/loops/

#livedexperience #publichealth #medicalhumanities #schizoaffective_disorder #metabolicSyndrome

[Publication] Hacking the Disease: Salvatore Iaconesi’s Sense-Making Quest for an Open-Source Cure for Cancer

The volume 3 n. 2 (2024) of the academic journal Re:visit – Humanities and Medicine in Dialogue has just been published. Based at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, the journal participates in the international debate within Medical Humanities, with articles in German and English. In this last volume, edited by Katharina Fürholzer, Julia Pröll and Maria Heidegger, you can find my article “Hacking the Disease: Salvatore Iaconesi’s Sense-Making Quest for an Open-Source Cure for Cancer“.

The article focuses on an analysis of the performance La Cura, by Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, with the goal of highlighting the deep implications of their work in the effort of rethinking the relationship between culture, society, technology and biology, a task more necessary than ever in our digital societies.

Here is the abstract:

The experience of illness, as narrated by those who suffer from it, can provide significant insight for medical and health professionals, helping them to understand what their patient is going through, from a psychological and existential point of view. These narratives can also help to bridge the distance between science and experience, and to heal the gap that divides the sick person from the rest of society. The work that Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico have done with their performance La cura (The cure) – started when he was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2012 – takes this kind of narrative and selfreflexive experience even further, in order to explore the relationship between culture, technology and biology, with the aim of redefining the meaning of cure (and, consequently, of illness and health) in a collective and inclusive way. La cura can thus be seen as a piece of work that, by belonging to the Medical Humanities, can also take a step forward in building a theoretical and practical dialogue between different disciplines in order to respond to the challenges of our digital (and biotechnological) society.

#Cancer #Cure #digitalHumanities #MedicalHumanities #OrianaPersico #ReVisit #SalvatoreIaconesi #UniversityOfInnsbruck

https://wp.me/pa8vBQ-lA

Memorialising the Death & Legacy of Robert Fergusson: Romantic Sympathy & Enlightenment Medical Improvement

Professor Rhona Brown looks at how Fergusson’s death had “not only a profound effect on a key figure in Edinburgh’s medical establishment but also a lasting influence on the therapeutic and psychiatric treatment available in the city”

3/5

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2014/06/memorialising-the-death-and-legacy-of-robert-fergusson-romantic-sympathy-and-enlightenment-medical-improvement/

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #poet #poetry #enlightenment #medicalhumanities #psychiatry

See
the #CAIS
website (https://www.canadianirishstudies.org/) w/ details of five fabulous speakers at our 2023 conference “Health and the Global Irish Nation”
(May 31-June 3)! Proposal deadline: March 3! #IrishInCanada https://twitter.com/CAIS_Irish/status/1626611837742592000?s=20 #IrishStudies #MedicalHumanities

So grateful that the Kingfisher Institute for the Liberal Arts and Professions invited me to join their panel last night on Population Health. I got to talk about Benedict Anderson and how the concept of population inherently asks questions about #governmentality and #biopolitics. Then we used #Dickens’s Bleak House for an example. #MedHums #MedicalHumanities

Today I'm asking my Literature and Medicine students to look at the illnesses and deaths of Bessy Higgins and Mrs. Hale in order to develop a thesis that explores the role of the Social Determinants of Health in these illnesses and deaths #MedicalHumanities #MedHums

I've been asked to be part of a panel on "population health" and so I'm looking for your favourite scene/excerpt from a novel that displays a population--I'm leaning towards something like Bleak House, but what comes to mind when you think of population in literature? #MedHums #MedicalHumanities #PopulationHealth

What and How can we learn from #NonhumanAnimals in the #MedicalHumanities? 📢The website for our recently launched network (NAMHN) funded by @wellcometrust @NNMHRmed is now live! 👀 Visit us at namhnetwork.wordpress.com to know how to get involved 🐸

Today I'm trying to finish enough of the section on maternal mortality in #Edgeworth's Ennui and Claudia #Johnstone's Clan Albin to make a passable draft for the upcoming workshop #NationalTale #Romanticism #ScottishLiterature #IrishLiterature #MedicalHumanities

Beginning to pack up my #opera books because I won’t have any time to work on that project until well after I move to the #UMN; right now my focus is on the #MedicalHumanities and the #NationalTale book

After a typically helpful #WIP works-in-progress group, I’m feeling energised about my #Edgeworth and infection chapter. But I’m wondering if any of you #MedicalHumanities folks have a recommendation on the politics of infection in the late #eighteenthcentury #romanticism #IrishStudies

This remains one of the most impactful collections I've read in recent years https://networks.h-net.org/node/9782/reviews/12032463/dillard-wright-hamington-and-flower-care-ethics-age-precarity #CareEthics #MedicalHumanities

Just hit submit on the final rounds of edits for an article on #Disability, #Contagion, and the #Gothic in #Edgeworth and #Scott #IrishStudies #ScottishStudies #DisabilityStudies #MedicalHumanities

Call for Applications: BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship 2023–24

1 June 2023 – 1 June 2024, University of Glasgow

The Fellowship is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic post.

Deadline for applications: Mon 30 Jan 2023

#19thcentury #TextualEditing #TravelWriting #MedicalHumanities #Periodicals #BookHistory #Victorian #Romanticism

@litstudies

https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4486

The #Launch of Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long #NineteenthCentury is in just over an hour. #Romanticism #Victorianism #C18Studies #C19Studies #MedicalHumanities #MedHums https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/book-launch-life-death-and-consciousness-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-tickets-481661782357?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=reminder_attendees_event_starting_email&utm_term=eventname&ref=eemaileventremind

I've started a new group @CreativeHealth for anyone interested in the intersection of #art #creativity #culture #health #wellbeing #SocialPrescribing #TeamGP #NHS #NarrativeMedicine #MedicalHumanities including the current Creative Health review led by the National Centre for Creative Health

We are looking for a #Multiethnic #Anglophone #Literature specialist. The field(s) of sub-specialization and the era are open, but preference will be given to candidates whose work engages with #medhums #higheredjobs #jobfairy #medicalhumanities

https://creighton.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/assistant-professor-of-english-multiethnic-anglophone-literature-3392

Hi, historian and childhood studies scholar. Just a few things I'm interested include #babies #infancy #morality #agency #personhood #historyofscience #historyofmedicine #childhood #scienceandreligion #jansenism #polanyi #medicalhumanities #tea #coffee #materialculture #humanities #history #publichumanities #acting #theatre #hps #academics #histodons

Hi, historian and childhood studies scholar. Just a few things I'm interested include #babies #infancy #morality #agency #personhood #historyofscience #historyofmedicine #childhood #scienceandreligion #jansenism #polanyi #medicalhumanities #tea #coffee #materialculture #humanities #history #publichumanities #acting #theatre #hps #academics #histodons

Hi, historian and childhood studies scholar. Just a few things I'm interested include #babies #infancy #morality #agency #personhood #historyofscience #historyofmedicine #childhood #scienceandreligion #jansenism #polanyi #medicalhumanities #tea #coffee #materialculture #humanities #history #publichumanities #acting #theatre #hps #academics #histodons

Hi, historian and childhood studies scholar. Just a few things I'm interested include #babies #infancy #morality #agency #personhood #historyofscience #historyofmedicine #childhood #scienceandreligion #jansenism #polanyi #medicalhumanities #tea #coffee #materialculture #humanities #history #publichumanities #acting #theatre #hps #academics #histodons

Hi, historian and childhood studies scholar. Just a few things I'm interested include #babies #infancy #morality #agency #personhood #historyofscience #historyofmedicine #childhood #scienceandreligion #jansenism #polanyi #medicalhumanities #tea #coffee #materialculture #humanities #history #publichumanities #acting #theatre #hps #academics #histodons

#Hello mastodon.social here's an #Introduction of non exhaustive hashtags 🙂
#MedLibs #IDEAA #DEIAA #Disability #LGBTQEquality #asexuality #QueerReads #StarWars #PublicHealth #HealthLiteracy #HealthEquity #MedicalHumanities #GraphicMedicine #musicals #librarianship #libraries #LibraryWorkers #librarians #HigherEducation #academia #unions #unionizing #ChronicIllness #ScholComm #ScienceCommunication #Cats #Dogs #ReadingRecs