The Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group will meet twice in the Spring Term to consider Attention and its Medicalization. The sessions will speak to each other but it’s fine to attend just one. Everyone is welcome! There is no need to book.
1 March 2018, 2-3.30pm, Malet Street Building, London, WC1E 7HX – Room 420: Reading Attention
- Katherine Hayles, “On Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes”, Profession (2007): 187-199
- Matthew Bevis, “In Search of Distraction”, Poetry Magazine (November 2017) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/144656/in-search-of-distraction
22 March 2018, 2-3.30pm, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD – Room 114 (Keynes Library): Medicalizing Attention
- Matthew Smith, “The First Hyperactive Children”, Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD. Reaktion, 2012, pp. 46-74.
- Ilina Singh, “A disorder of anger and aggression: Children’s perspectives on attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the UK”, Social Science and Medicine 73 (2011): 889-896.
Further reading: Simon Bailey, “ADHD Mythology”, in Rethinking Disability Theory and Practice: Challenging Essentialism, ed. Karin Lesnik Oberstein. Palgrave, 2015, pp. 98-117.
Led by Sophie A. Jones and Bozhena Zoritch.
Email Sophie (sophie.jones@bbk.ac.uk) for a copy of the reading (include your Dropbox-linked email address if you have one). For directions to our Bloomsbury campus please see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps
Visit the Birkbeck Centre for Medical Humanities website for more information about our activities, and please do forward this on to any interested parties.