Medical Humanities Network

The Medical Humanities Network samlar forskare från olika institutioner inom humfak och utanför. Vi är alla interesserade av skärningspunkter mellan hälsa/medicin och traditionella humanistiska discipliner, till exempel, litteratur, historia, etnologi och språk. Vi anordnar seminarier och läsgrupper.

Klicka här för att se kurser i medicinsk humaniora vid Umeå universitet.

Våra evenemang under 2023 är:

October (Details TBA): Lauren La Fauci (Linköping), Humhuset.

8 February, 3.15-4.45: "How Can Literature have a Role in Medical Education?" (Katarina Bernhardsson, Lund), Humhuset.

10 November, 3.15-4.45: "Aesthetics, Body, and Care: A Practice in African and Diasporic Writing and Story" (Chisomo Kalinga, Edinburgh), Humhuset.

Evenemang under 2022:

16 September, 3.15-4.45: "The Swedish Abortion Pill and the Making of Values" (Morag Ramsey, Uppsala) via Zoom. 

24 September, 10-12: "Det sena 1900-talets Svenska amalgamkontrovers" (Final seminar of Umeå PhD candidate Jonatan Samuelsson with examiner Maria Josephson, KI) 

26 October, 1.15-2.45: Joint seminar with Literature of Modern Languages, "Physical and Mental Health Among Medieval Recluses" (Godelinde Perk, Oxford)

23 November, 3.15-4.45: Joint seminar with Literature of Modern Languages, "Dermography: On the Affinity of (Human) Skin and Writing" (Irina Hron, Gothenburg) - the seminar will be followed by a reception

Evenemang under 2020-2021:

18 November, 3:15-4.45: “Organizing Illness – the mobilization of patients in 20thcentury medicine” (Ylva Söderfeldt, Uppsala) via Zoom. 

10 December, 3:15-4:45 : "The Historical Roots of the Placebo Effect" (Karin Jensen, KI) via Zoom. 

11 May, 1:15-2.45: Medicine and "Magical Thinking" in the Middle Ages (Gwendolyne Knight Keimpema, Stockholm)

25 March, 3:15-4.45: Should Computers Help Make End-of-Life Decisions? Advancing a New Debate in Medical AI Ethics (Erik Campano, Umeå)

18 February, 3:15-4.45: "A Cultural Biography of the Prostate" (Ericka Johnson, Linköping)