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Research hub @TorchOxford, Uni of Oxford We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, law, and history, among others. Follow for updates on our work and events. https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-hub
Prof Dan Kevles is visiting Oxford Brookes next week, hosted by Prof Marius Turda (Centre for Medical Humanities).
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It was great to host historian Elena Conis (UC Berkeley) for a MedHum lecture guiding the audience through the history of vaccination and vaccines, both as a medical technology and as the focus of cultural and ethical tensions.
Thanks to @torchoxford.bsky.social and @uehiro.ox.ac.uk for the support
New blogpost on our event the last week on Music and the Medical Humanities
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There's still time to sign up for Elena Conis' lecture this Friday at St Anne's College, Oxford www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-no...
Details on our website torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-huma...
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Two Medical Humanities events this Friday, 6 March:
- Unquiet Mothers: Violence, Care, and Maternal Ambivalence in 19th-Century France (book launch), with Susannah Wilson (French Studies, Warwick)
- Contextualizing the Modern Era of Vaccination, lecture by historian Elena Conis (Berkeley)
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Our next event this coming Friday, 27 Feb, on music and health humanities. We will explore ways in which music engages with health, illness, and wellbeing (it will include live music on piano).
More details at the link below
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Music and the Medical Humanities | Join us a talk on
Friday 27 Feb at 3pm that explores ways in which music engages with health, illness, and wellbeing. tinyurl.com/46rdxu24 Speakers: Peter Shannon, Hester Crombie
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New event just added. What, if anything, makes a good euthanasia law? Comparing perspectives and experiences from Mexico and the UK and discussing fundamental issues around dying, the law, and the role of medical professionals. In collaboration with @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social
Join us for an engaging talk on 'The Valley Children - How collaborative creative practice can help us make sense of predictive genomics' on Friday 20 Feb, 9.30am - organised by @oxmedhum.bsky.social details: tinyurl.com/mph2datr @albertogiubilini2.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Our next event is this Friday:
Imagine a world in which every child’s future is mapped before their first breath. The theatrical script The Valley Children turns the abstract logic of prediction into human drama
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Our event this week, online. @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
New blogpost by Zakiya Leeming and Rachel Hindmarsh on the MedHum event, supported by @uehiro.ox.ac.uk, on the opera Dangerous Matter, which dramatised the life of Lady Montagu and her early eighteenth-century advocacy for smallpox inoculation @torchoxford.bsky.social
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MediHum event this Thursday at Reuben College. Check out the webpage for more information torch.ox.ac.uk/event/god-an... @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
Healing in a Technological Age: Spirituality, Religion, and the Practice of Medicine
A panel discussion, taking place on 28 April at the Schwarzman Centre
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Oxford Medical Humanities is now partner of the Ox-Cam-London Philosophy of Medicine Society. Check out the website for more info philmed.framer.website
This term's DPhil and ECR medhums writing group will be held on Fridays, rather than Wednesdays
See more here: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medica...
Our Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group (HT 2026) is restarting on Friday 23 January. We’d love you to join us! tinyurl.com/ye2ajyxf
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Our new term card for Hilary Term is now available on our website. For more details about the single events and how to register torch.ox.ac.uk/article/medi...
Look out for our Hilary termcard, which will be available via our e-newsletter and on our website at the beginning of term:
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Writing for the Institute of Art and Ideas (@iai.tv) ethicist and medical doctor Dominic Wilkinson critiques the fashionable medical treatment “memory reconsolidation” which combines drugs with therapy to numb the emotional threads in painful memories: iai.tv/articles/emo...
#memory #trauma #ethics
In this blog post from November, Tess Casher reflects on her master’s research findings surrounding medical perspectives on stammering
Read 'Dysfluent Illuminations' here:
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From the archive:
Read Steve Clarke's blogpost on ways in which philosophy, theology, and bioethics can work together to try to better understand the role, significance, and limits of hope and faith in healthcare.
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Our latest blogpost on our recent conference, seen from the perspective of an art historian @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/lite...
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Our final event for the term is a presentation of historian Sara Farhan's book
Monday 8 December 2025, 12pm - 1.30pm
Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities,
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Two @torchoxford.bsky.social Medical Humanities and @uehiro.ox.ac.uk events on humanities approaches to death and dying coming up today (Monday 1 Dec, St Cross College, Oxford) and tomorrow (Tuesday 2 Dec, St Anne's College, Oxford). More information at this link: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/contro...