Health Humanities

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

In 1624, a physician called Jean-Baptiste van Helmont told a strange story in his book of “magnetic cures” about a man from Brussels who had lost his nose. Having had…Read More >

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 >

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 >

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 >