HealthHumanities UoR

Centre for Health Humanities at the @uniofreading. Exploring health from interdisciplinary perspectives. #medhums #healthhumanities #histsci #histmed

[SAPD at Reading Uni @UniRdg_SAPD]

The Global Development Research Division’s annual lecture will take place here in the School on Tuesday, 2nd June 2026. This year’s topic will focus on future gender justice and sustainability through inclusive climate change governance.

Register here: https://t.co/EAzmTf8MBx

[MedHums_BMJ @MedHums_BMJ]

From panels to placentas: graphic novels, dramaturgy and the reconfiguration of life writing in medicine https://t.co/vZSLSXB3pT

[SAPD at Reading Uni @UniRdg_SAPD]

This World Bee Day (Wed 20th May 2026), we’re spotlighting Professor Simon Potts and Dr Tom Breeze from Sustainable Land Management, working with Bee:wild to highlight the vital role of pollinators in global food security.

Learn more: https://t.co/IXJIAYiIte

[MedHums_BMJ @MedHums_BMJ]

"Medicine and the Humanities: the art of transgression"
Join us for ep.3 of the podcast. We talk to Dr. Monica Lalanda and Dr. Tamarin Norwood about the methodologies used in the #MedHums, and focussing on the person behind the patient.
Find us wherever you get your podcasts

[Andrew Mangham @Mangham]

Interview with Anchu Kamala, Matron, Theatres and Anaesthetics-Pre-Op Assessment Unit, St George’s Hospital. By Joe Varghese in the Centre for Health Humanities at the @HealthHums at the University of Reading. https://t.co/nPkE8TKonS @UniRdg_Research

[Oxford Medical Humanities @OxMedHum]

Our event this week is the Ox-Cam-Lon Philosophy of Medicine Society seminar "Understanding Symptoms: Diagnosis, Cure, and Bodily Reintegration", by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL), with a commentary by Oxford philosopher Joe Gough. All welcome, details here https://t.co/GkobBmulcr

[Research in English At Durham @READEnglish]

More info here:
👉 https://t.co/1p79iL3mPk

📅Friday 8th May
📍Lower Mountjoy, Durham & Online

[Research in English At Durham @READEnglish]

📢 'The Relationship is the Therapy': A Collaborative Symposium 📢

This Friday, our colleague Dr Josh Pugh, in collaboration with the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University, is hosting a symposium on therapy research and practice.

[The Intima @The_Intima]

For These Doctors, Medicine Is Also a Literary Journey
A great feature by @DinaCheney to the world of narrative medicine for those unfamiliar with the brilliant writing being done in this literary genre. @NarrativeMed @BLReview Neurologist Pria Anand @sjauhar Bruce H. Campbell, one of our non-fiction editors, whose short story appears in our new anthology. @Medscape

https://t.co/IUmikhgiyJ

[MedHums_BMJ @MedHums_BMJ]

Have you listened to our second podcast episode yet? In "Generative chaos: mapping the Medical Humanities" Prof Stuart Murray and Prof Neil Vickers discuss the origins and institutional state of the #MedHums
Find us here https://t.co/60jjA7jhhj or wherever you get your podcasts

[HealthHumanities UoR @HealthHums]

Centre for Health Humanities is now also on YouTube!
https://t.co/GtApMVd1Ec

[Medical Humanities Glasgow @glasgowmedhums]

Join us on 22th April, 1-2pm for 'Working with The Hunterian – Collections and Cross Disciplinary Collaboration' Workshop, co-hosted with Global Health and Environment at the James McCune Smith 630 or online via ZOOM ⬇️ #MedicalHumanities
https://t.co/jSEZqH5lIL

[Connecting Research @UniRdg_Research]

How do we thread the needle of preserving nature and feeding 8+ billion people?

Hear how protecting bioversity can be a win-win for both humanity and endangered species in Professor @deepa_sena 's upcoming public lecture.

Watch the trailer ⏯️ https://t.co/dr0jM2qW4k

[The Intima @The_Intima]

TAKE A MINUTE...
Read this short essay on anatomy lab titled "Meet Your First Patient" by Pallavi Kenkare, a third-year at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. She graduated from Cornell University in 2021, where she served as opinion editor for the Cornell Daily Sun. Kenkare, who hails from Atlanta, also worked as a journalist for CNET and ZDNET.
https://t.co/L3Guut3o2h

[Oxford Medical Humanities @OxMedHum]

New blogpost just published

https://t.co/qMn7XOmRSp

@TORCHOxford @ethicsinthenews

[Connecting Research @UniRdg_Research]

Our current culture is destroying the planet and a shock to the system is needed to avoid ecological collapse, argues Professor @Tom_H_Oliver author of the new book 'The Nature Delusion' that is out today on @BrisUniPress

Read the blog to learn more 🔗 https://t.co/4TzvpVOWwW

[MedHums_BMJ @MedHums_BMJ]

The first episode of the new Medical Humanities podcast is now live. In this episode we ask a controversial question - what's the point of the Medical Humanities? Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts #medhums

[MedHums_BMJ @MedHums_BMJ]

The Medical Humanities Podcast is coming back soon. Find us wherever you get your podcasts
https://t.co/XnA2ewstrE

[The Intima @The_Intima]

Memories of Home: A Reflection about Alzheimer’s and a Mother Who Wanted to Go Home by writer and oral historian Annette Leddy

https://t.co/qiScvAEmTJ

#narrativemedicine #graphicmedicine #alzheimers
#Essays

[Connecting Research @UniRdg_Research]

As #BritishScienceWeek begins, we've joined leading UK research institutions in calling on the Government to prioritise investment in nutrition and food systems, in a letter published in The Guardian today.

Read it now: https://t.co/pkjh8RuLm4

@UnitedAMH