Archive for March, 2012

New Wellcome exhibition: “Brains: The mind as matter”

wellcome brainsFrom 29 March – 17 June 2012, the Wellcome Collection (London) will hold a new exhibition entitled “Brains: The mind as matter”:

This free exhibition aims at exploring “what humans have done to brains in the name of medical intervention, scientific enquiry, cultural meaning and technological change” and features over 150 artefacts including real brains, artworks, manuscripts, videos and photography.

Watch the exhibition trailer here.
For more information, click here.

CfP: Psychical research in the history of medicine and the sciences (London, September 2012)

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

PSYCHICAL RESEARCH IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND THE SCIENCES

14-15 SEPTEMBER 2012, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Keynote speakers:
PROF. IVOR GRATTAN-GUINNESS
& PROF. SONU SHAMDASANI

The UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines invites original papers for a two-day conference on social, intellectual, epistemological and methodological aspects of psychical research and parapsychology in relation to orthodox medicine and the sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Abstracts for 20-minutes papers should be around 300 words long and must be submitted by 15 June 2012.

We plan to publish a selection of papers in an edited volume.

For enquiries and abstract submissions, please e-mail a.sommer@ucl.ac.uk

Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 June 2012

Recent Dissertations on the History of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities

The latest list of recent doctoral dissertations world-wide harvested from the July 2010 issues of Dissertation Abstracts pertaining to the history of psychiatry and medicine have been downloaded to the HSLS homepage and can be viewed at here.

This is a free service I offer the scholarly community on a 6-8 week basis. Please share this information with your colleagues and students.

Your comments are always welcomed.

Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D.

History of Medicine Librarian

Health Sciences Library System

University of Pittsburgh

412-6488927

New Issue – Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry

A new issue of Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry is now available. Readers will find no “historical” articles but I think that the general topic The Anthropology of Psychopharmaceuticals will interest a lot of subscribers of this blog. To read the abstracts of this special issue, click here.

On the same topic, Somatosphere ran two months ago several excellent posts on Risperdal on trial by Kalman Applbaum.

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