We’re delighted to announce the recent publication of Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England by Dr Alanna Skuse, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow for the Department of English at the…Read More >
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Writers’ Blockdown
Researchers from the Centre for Health Humanities have worked with colleagues and patients at the Royal Berkshire Hospital to create a workbook which encourages users to doodle, to write, to…Read More >
Home & Alone: A historical perspective on self isolation during coronavirus
Co-Director of the Centre for Health Humanities, Dr Hannah Newton, draws on 17th-century plague accounts to offer insights into the emotional impact of self-isolation Yesterday, the British government announced its policy for slowing down the spread…Read More >
Architecture of Pharmacies – Co-designing Pharmacy Spaces
Dr Ranjita Dhital, Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice (University of Reading), Principal Investigator of ‘Architecture of Pharmacies – Co-designing Pharmacy Spaces’: Pharmacy Research UK Leverhulme Fellowship (2018-2020), £44,972. Architecture of Pharmacies is an…Read More >
Luigi Groto: A blind author and prophet in sixteenth-century Italy, by Laura Carnelos
Dr Laura Carnelos, Collections Research Assistant in Typography & Graphic Communication at Reading, draws on her postdoctoral work at the University of Venice to illuminate the experience of a famous…Read More >
Global Health Humanities Workshop 2019
This workshop, organised by Dr Rohan Deb Roy (co-director of the University of Reading’s Centre for Health Humanities), examines how biomedicine was received, reinterpreted and transformed in the non-western world in the…Read More >
Facial Prejudice: the Last Taboo? By Marjorie Gehrhardt
Dr Marjorie Gehrhardt, lecturer in 20th century French history, tells us about a recent event she organised on experiences and representations of facial differences. From The Phantom of the Opera to James…Read More >
Workshop on the fabric of the human body
On the 7 and 8 November, the Centre for Health Humanities teamed up the University’s Arts Strategy, and was supported generously by the Heritage and Creativity Institute for Collections, in…Read More >
Call for Papers: Disease & Ease, 1500-1800
University of Reading Conference, 1-2 July 2020 [Please note that the original dates for this conference were 3-4 July 2019, but one of the conference organisers has since found out…Read More >
The Aged Patient in Early Modern England
Amie Bolissian Mcrae provides a tantalising glimpse into the subject of her new Wellcome Trust-funded PhD project, ‘The Aged Patient in Early Modern England’. The PhD builds on her MA dissertation, which was awarded…Read More >