Care and Cure: Diseases, Disabilities and Therapies. Medical Humanities conference, Swansea, 14-15 June 2012

Care and Cure: Symposium by the Sea 2012
 This conference looks quite good, and only down the road...

The 6th annual Symposium by the Sea, hosted by MEMO at Swansea University, will take place on June 14-15 2012 in the College of Arts and Humanities. Themes to be considered at this event will include: writing about health and disease; representing illness and disability in texts and images; defining and living with disability; medical education and medical practitioners; hospitals; surgery; curing the soul; pharmacology.

Key to the conference discussions will be the transitions visible in the evidence between the medieval and early-modern periods, such as the increased licensing and control of medical practice and the concomitant marginalization of practitioners whose skills and abilities (and gender) excluded them from the new and self-conscious profession.

The conference will draw upon the existing strength of research into the medical humanities at Swansea, and will combine local expertise with the invited contributions of leading scholars in the field, including Professors Monica Green (Arizona State University) and Peter Biller (University of York). A key aim of the conference is to include junior and postgraduate researchers, for whom a series of workshops will be organised on day one of the conference, culminating in three postgraduate papers by new researchers in the area of medical humanities.

For more info check it out here.