Professor Sue Walker (Typography) reviews Can graphic design save your life? an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London, 7 September 2017–14 January 2018. Follow the link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24735132.2017.1386506
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Monsters and Mutations
Health Humanities co-director Andrew Mangham (English Literature) reflects on the recent season of events. Last week our ‘Monsters and Mutations’ series of events closed with a screening of Tod Browning’s…Read More >
Hybrids and Health Humanities: Ceroplasty, Couplets, Chimeras
As part of the Monsters and the Monstrous season of events, poet Kelley Swain and anatomical sculptor Eleanor Crook (pictured) will be visiting the University to demonstrate their collaborations in…Read More >
Monsters film festival
In the weeks leading up to Halloween the Health Humanities research cluster is teaming up with Reading Film Theatre to organise a ‘Monsters’ film festival. Academics, students and the local community…Read More >
Anatomical Art in the Royal Academy
Anatomical artist Eleanor Crook reflects on the University of Reading’s Minnie Jane Hardman Collection. Minnie Jane Hardman (née Shubrook) and I attended the Royal Academy Schools at points a century…Read More >
New Chapter: “She Sleeps Well & Eats an Egg”: Convalescent Care in Early Modern England
By Hannah Newton (History) Today in western healthcare, a special branch of medicine is dedicated to the care of patients recovering from critical illnesses – rehabilitation or convalescent medicine. Involving…Read More >
New Project: Combating Anti-Microbial Resistance: Information Design and Architecture in Persuasive Pharmacy Spaces
By Rosemary Lim (Pharmacy) What do graphic and information design, architecture, pharmacy and human factors have to offer collectively to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR)? We are very excited to report…Read More >
The Moral and Spiritual Implications of Illness and Suffering: the 2017 EMRC Conference
By Alanna Skuse (English Literature) It’s now 48 hours since the end of the Reading Early Modern Research Centre’s 2017 conference, and I have sufficiently recovered to write up some…Read More >
A visit to the Cole Collection
The Health Humanities Research Group was proud to welcome poet Kelley Swain and sculptor Eleanor Crook to the Cole Museum and to the Cole Archive on Tuesday. Kelley’s blog post can be…Read More >
New Science in Culture module wins University teaching award
We are delighted to announce that a new third-year module on Science in Culture, run by members of the IRHS, has won a University Collaborative Award for Outstanding Contributions to…Read More >