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From: "Brian Hurwitz" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:58 AM
Subject: Medical Humanities Conference KCL 4th & 5th Sept: Health,
Illnessand Representation
> The 4th Annual Meeting of the Association for Medical Humanities will be
> hosted by King’s on 4^th and 5^th September 2006. The Association’s Annual
> 2-day Meeting is the main opportunity for artists, writers, health care
> workers and scholars of the arts, humanities and medicine to come together
> to discuss their work in a spirit of adventurous cross-disciplinary
> dialogue. The focus of this year’s Conference is representation of health
> and illness. A posse of national and international speakers will address
> the Conference; there will be 5 double plenary sessions and over 50
> additional sessions comprising talks, posters, dramas and workshops that
> reflect the following themes: writing and ill health; narrative and
> illness; literature and bodies; health, text and performance; visuality
> and medicine. There will be an exhibition from the historical collections
> of St Thomas’ Hospital and a dinner in the Rolls Chapel of Chancery Lane
> followed by a talk on the depiction of sickness and health in the work of
> Cervantes. Do come! Do cascade this information.
>
> For further information and registration details see
> http://www.amh.ac.uk/amh_conference_2006.htm and attached programme.
>
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> Brian Hurwitz
>
> Professor of Medicine and the Arts
>
> Dept of English Language and Literature
>
> School of Humanities
>
> King’s College
>
> Strand
>
> London WC2R 2LS
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> Tel: 0207 848 1348
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> Fax: 0207 848 2257
>
> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/hums/landm/
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