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All welcome to the first series of Culture, Society and Medicine seminars.
Prof Femi Oyebode, Weds 3rd February 2016, 1pm. County Main, Seminar Room 1.
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham and the current author of Sim’s
Symptoms in the Mind (4th edition). His other books include Mindreadings:
literature and psychiatry & Madness
at the Theatre. He has published 6 volumes of poetry: Naked to your softness and other dreams; Wednesday is a colour; Adagio for oblong mirrors; Forest of transformations; Master of the leopard hunt; and Indigo, camwood and mahogany red.
Also,Selected
Poems. His research interests include clinical psychopathology, medical humanities, the application of ethics to psychiatric practice, and neuropsychological and neural correlates of abnormal phenomena. You can read his blog here: https://femioyebode.wordpress.com/about/
Prof Sally Sheard, Weds 16th March 2016, 1pm, County Main, Seminar Room 1.
Sally Sheard is Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Liverpool, with an appointment divided between the Department of Public Health
and Policy and the Department of History. She is a health and social policy historian, with a special interest in the interface between expert advisers and policymakers in the UK and international organisations.From January 2015 she will be a Wellcome Trust
Senior Investigator, leading a five year project: The Governance of Health: medical, economic and managerial expertise in Britain since 1948.
Prof Jane McNaughton, Weds 4th May 2016, 1pm, County Main, Seminar Room 4.
Jane Macnaughton is Professor of Medical Humanities at Durham University in the UK and co-director of the University’s Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH).
This Centre was established in 2008 as a Wellcome Trust-Funded development from the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM) which she initiated in 2000. Before that Jane was a GP in Glasgow and a lecturer in the Department of General
Practice at Glasgow University. She has published in the fields of medical education, medical humanities, literature and medicine, history of medicine and health care environments. Recently her work has turned to engagement in critical public health especially
in the field of smoking research. Her books include, Clinical Judgement (OUP, 2000, with Robin Downie), Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2005, with Corinne Saunders) and The Body and the Arts (Palgrave, 2009,
with Corinne Saunders and Ulrika Maude). She is also part of an international publishing collaboration working on a series of Medical Humanities Companions.
Please contact Sharon Ruston <[log in to unmask]> or Elena Semino <[log in to unmask]>
for further details.
Professor Sharon Ruston
Department of English and Creative Writing
B92 County Main
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YW
Tel: 01524 592248
The Davy Letters Project: http://www.davy-letters.org.uk/
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