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How healthcare practitioners can learn from studying art: spotlight on Mark Quinn and Alison Lapper
In September 2005, a 3.5m high, 13 tonne statue was unveiled atop the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. The statue is a beautiful, strong, proud, naked, pregnant woman. She…Read More >
Registration now open: The Past as Nightmare
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN The Past as Nightmare: An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Reading (UK) 6-7 September 2022 Keynote speakers: Dr Ailise Bulfin & Professor Laurence Talairach The gothic has a…Read More >
The Making of a Cheerful Ballad: Health, History, and Music Workshops in a Reading Council Care Home
Amie Bolissian is the Postgraduate Representative and Social Media Manager at the Centre for Health Humanities, and is in the final year of her Wellcome Trust-funded PhD project on early...Read More >
Call for Papers: The Past as Nightmare
CALL FOR PAPERS The Past as Nightmare: An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Reading (UK) 6-7 September 2022 Keynote speakers: Dr Ailise Bulfin & Professor Laurence Talairach The gothic has a…Read More >
Introducing Space to Think: Rural Wellbeing, our latest student exhibition
Mental Health is increasingly becoming the subject of heritage interpretation and museum displays. In addition museums are becoming places of social prescribing and therapeutic engagement. In light of this Museum…Read More >
Cross-disciplinary Conversations on Caring in a Crisis
Being a pre-modern historian of ageing health can be a little lonely. There are not very many of us, and we tend to be spread out across the globe. Perhaps…Read More >
Signs of the times: COVID-19 and public health notices
Thanks to a CHH Fellowship, Stephen Hickson has been appointed as a research assistant to work on a cross-disciplinary research project investigating how verbal and graphic language is used to…Read More >
2020 Publications Review
Members of the Centre for Health Humanities published a wealth of journal articles, chapters and books in 2020; here are just some of the highlights. Books The Science of Starving…Read More >
