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Medical Humanities Reading Group – 23 February 2017

The next session of the Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group explores the theme of surgery.

Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm (2014) is an account of his work as a neurosurgeon in the NHS. We will also read a short extract from Samer Nashef’s The Naked Surgeon (2015), which details his experiences working as a heart surgeon.

Do No Harm is available for around £5-10 online (including postage); the extract from The Naked Surgeon is available via the Reading Group’s shared dropbox folder (for further details of how to access, please contact Heather on h.tilley@bbk.ac.uk).

We will meet on Thursday 23 February, 3-4.30pm, in Room B02, 43 Gordon Square .

Please note the date for our second reading session this term: Thursday 23 March, 3-4.30pm. It will focus on portraiture and illness and will be led by the artist Tim Wainwright, whose work is currently on exhibition as part of the Hunterian Museum’s show Transplant and Life (until Saturday 20 May 2017). More details of the reading will be circulated soon. Colleagues may also be interested in a forthcoming event at the Hunterian Museum that Tim and his collaborator John Wynne are participating in: ‘Transplant and Life – the artists in conversation’ (Thursday 23 February, 7-9pm). More information on this talk can be found on the Royal College of Surgeon’s website.

For more information please visit our website.

Please do circulate details of the group and readings to interested colleagues and postgraduate students.

Kind regards

Heather

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Dr Heather Tilley

Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow

Department of English and Humanities

 

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Medical Humanities Reading Group, Thursday 15 December 2016, 3-4.30

In our final reading group session before Christmas, we will be reading Surgeon X, a new comic book series published by Image Comics. Set against the backdrop of an antibiotic apocalypse in near future London, Rosa Scott, a brilliant and obsessive surgeon becomes Surgeon X, a vigilante doctor who uses experimental surgery and black market drugs to treat patients. You can find out more about the series here.

You can buy physical copies in Forbidden Planet on Shaftesbury Avenuev  for £3.99. The digital copy, available as an app, also includes lots of videos and sound clips, and is £2.49.

We will meet on Thursday 15 December, 3-4.30pm, in Room B02, 43 Gordon Square.

For more information please see our website. Please do also forward on to any interested colleagues or students.

Best wishes,

Heather

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Medical Humanities Reading Group 16 November 2016 3-4.30pm

The next sesson of the Birkbeck Medical Humanities Reading Group explores the theme of breath, and also continues our engagement with the recent publication The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, recently introduced by the editors Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods at a lunchtime lecture at Birkbeck.

Texts:

  • Jane McNaughton and Havi Carel, ‘Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture: Using Critical Medical Humanities to Bridge an Epistemic Gap’, in The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities, ed. by Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), pp. 294-309. An open access version of the text can be found by following this link (chapter 16)
  • Paul Capsis & Michaela Burger, from new production of Rumpelstiltskin (composer: Jethro Woodward), Adelaide Festival Centre: please find link here
  • Bjork, studio version of ‘The Pleasure is All Mine’ from Medulla (2004): please find link here.

We are also very pleased to welcome visual artist Jayne Wilton, who will introduce her work which explores the breath as a unit of exchange between people and their environments.

We will meet on Wednesday 16 November, 3-4.30pm, in the Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts. 43 Gordon Square WC1H 0PD.

For more information about the readings and Jayne Wilton, please visit our website.

Please do also forward on to any interested colleagues and postgraduate students.

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