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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE History of Medicine Division Lecture Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Lister Hill Auditorium NLM Building 38A Bethesda, MD Dear NLM Colleagues, You are cordially invited to the next History of Medicine lecture, to be held Tuesday, February 28, 2012, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., in Lister Hill Auditorium. [ READ MORE ]
MEET THE HISTORIAN: Sally Alexander, 6pm, 22 Feb 2012, Room 104, South Block, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU History Lab’s ‘Meet the Historian’ events are an opportunity to hear at first hand from noted historians how and why they became historians in the first place, their thoughts on research and the discipline generally, and about their [ READ MORE ]
SECOND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH HUMANITIES CONFERENCE Music, Health, and Humanity The Colleges of the Arts and of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA, are hosting the Second International Health Humanities Conference from Thursday-Saturday, 9, 10, 11 August, 2012. CONFERENCE FOCUS In accordance with the interdisciplinary nature of the Health Humanities, [ READ MORE ]
Below you will find a call for papers for an international conference on the subject of Theatre, Performance, Madness, and Psychiatry. This interdisciplinary conference is part of an AHRC funded project to investigate the history of performance in, and about, psychiatric asylums and hospitals since the 19th century. The conference will take place on 17th [ READ MORE ]
A new issue of the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry is now available online and includes the following article dealing with the history of psychiatry: Ó Gudmundsson, History of Icelandic psychiatry. The abstract reads: The history of Icelandic psychiatry is in many ways comparable with neighboring countries. Mentally ill people were badly treated in the country and received [ READ MORE ]
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