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Medical Humanities at the University of Aberdeen
Centre for Medical Humanitieshttp://www.abdn.ac.uk/medicine-dentistry/medical-dental/centres/humanities
/David Smith [email protected]
Sarah Ross: [email protected]
Centre for Medical Humanities
• Teaching– see handout for current position and some
current aspirations– in 2009 also proposed a level 1 Sixth Century
Course ‘Disability’ – but not currently pursuing– MB ChB Medcial Humanities ‘thread’: Sarah
Ross to report
Centre for Medical Humanities
• Research– scattered personal projects could be listed on
the CMH website?– new research, grant applications
• Wellcome Trust?• AHRC / SFC ‘Experiencing Health and Illness in
Scotland’?
Centre for Medical Humanities
Public Engagement
To date one Centre for Cultural History seminar has doubled as a CCH event:
6 October 2009: Sylvia Grace Borda, University of Stirling, 'Recollecting -Learning how to Animate Cultural Histories for Exhibition' (about use of anatomy collections for an exhibition at Queen’s University, Belfast, June - Aug 2008)
Centre for Medical HumanitiesForthcoming Event
Jordan Baseman's 'Nature's Great Experiment': A Screening and Discussion
Thursday 22 April, 6.30 pm, Suttie Building Auditorium, Medical School, Foresterhill. For further details see:
http://www.naturesgreatexperiment.com/
Followed by commentaries by Jennifer Melville, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Geraldine McNeil (School of Medicine and Dentistry), and others
Questions and answers with Jordan Baseman
Wine and nibbles.
Centre for Medical HumanitiesForthcoming Joint Events
• 20 April John Wilkins, University of Exeter, 'Galen's advice to us on maintaining good health' (Joint seminar with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Centre for Cultural History). Chair Jane Stevenson
• 27 April: NB 4.00 pm: Allan Beveridge, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline: 'Should psychiatrists read literature?' (Joint seminar with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Centre for Cultural History). Chair: Catherine Jones
• 4 May Iain Hutchison, University of Stirling: ''Disability History from the bottom up: narratives of disabled people in the 19th and 20thcenturies'. (Joint seminar with the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Centre for Cultural History). Chair: Dee Hoole
