Theories and Methods: Literature Science and Medicine

Event 2 Resources

 

Click on the image to have access to participants Object Narratives

 

Additional resources regarding this course and other LitSciMed events can be found on  Flickr (photos) and Slideshare (slide presentations).

Bibliographic Tools in Literature, Medicine and Science Interdisciplinary Research 

 

Below is the programme of studies prepared for this event. Resources generated for some of the sessions can be accessed through the links included in the programme.

Link here to the Reading List

 

Day 1

 

Session 1

Ross MacFarlane, Wellcome Library

Introduction to Wellcome Library’s Collections

Session 2

William Schupbach, Wellcome Library, Reading Paintings, Prints and Drawings

Session 3

Carole Reeves, Outreach Historian, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLUtilising new technologies: Making Films and the History of Medicine in Motion Project

LitSciMed Film Competition (Guide)

Session 4

Dr Frances Larson, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Durham (and author of An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World, OUP, 2009) - Tour of Medicine Man Gallery

Session 5 Ross MacFarlane, Tour of Wellcome Library
Session 6

Jenn Phillips-Bacher, Wellcome Library, Online resources at the Wellcome Library

Session 7 Dr Chris Hilton, Wellcome Library, Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books

 

Literature, Medicine, and Material Culture

Day 2

Session 1

Dr Neil Vickers

The fallacy of retrospective diagnosis and how a knowledge of medical history might aid literary interpretation and how it can mislead.

 

Session 2

Professor Brian Hurwitz,  The case history as genre

Walk to Foundling Museum. Lunch in Museum Cafe.

Session 3

Jane Darcy, Guided tour of Foundling Museum with further time to explore.

Session 4 General discussion time, McRae Gallery, Royal College of Surgeons

 

How to do Meaningful Interdisciplinary Research Linking Literature and Medicine

Day 3

 

Session 1

Simon Chaplin, Tour of Hunterian Museum

 

Session 2

Sharon Ruston, Alannah Tompkins, Simon Chaplin, Reading group - Object narratives in medical and scientific literature [slide presentation]

Session 3

Individual presentations - preparation time. Link to students' object narratives 

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