This one-day interdisciplinary conference aims to explore medical narrative in graphic novels and comics with an emphasis on the stigma of illness,… Read more Call for Papers – Graphic Medicine: Visualizing the Stigma of Illness. Comics Forum, Leeds Art Gallery. November 17, 2011
Neuroscience, Free Will, and a New Wave in Criminal Law?
The Atlantic features an article by neuroscientist David Eagleman (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) entitled “The Brain on Trial.” In… Read more Neuroscience, Free Will, and a New Wave in Criminal Law?
Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?
An Opinion Piece in today’s NY Times on Shyness and DSM by Susan Cain argues that shyness has evolutionary advantages… Read more Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?
New issue: Genèses
A new issue of the periodical Genèses is now out. Its central theme is “Medicalisation” and it includes three articles… Read more New issue: Genèses
Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg has made a movie about Freud, Jung, Otto Gross and Sabina Spielrein. The trailer has just been released:… Read more Dangerous Method
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