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Megan Coyer – James Hogg (1770-1835) and Illness Narratives in a Scottish Context

Speaker: Megan Coyer, Lecturer of English Literature, University of Glasgow

Respondent: Cristobal Silva, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

As a set of disciplines, the humanities face the challenge of how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy verbal categorization such as illness, pain, and healing. The recent emergence of interdisciplinary frameworks such as narrative medicine goes some way to address these challenges. Yet conceptualizing a field of medical humanities also offers a broader umbrella under which to study the influence of medico-scientific ideas and practices on society. Whether by incorporating material culture such as medical artefacts, performing symptomatic readings of poems and novels, or excavating the implicit medical assumptions underlying auditory cultures, the approaches that emerge from a historiographical or interpretive framework are different from those coming from the physician’s black bag.











When: Mon., Dec. 11, 2017 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: Columbia University
116th St. & Broadway
212-854-1754
Price: Free
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Speaker: Megan Coyer, Lecturer of English Literature, University of Glasgow

Respondent: Cristobal Silva, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

As a set of disciplines, the humanities face the challenge of how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy verbal categorization such as illness, pain, and healing. The recent emergence of interdisciplinary frameworks such as narrative medicine goes some way to address these challenges. Yet conceptualizing a field of medical humanities also offers a broader umbrella under which to study the influence of medico-scientific ideas and practices on society. Whether by incorporating material culture such as medical artefacts, performing symptomatic readings of poems and novels, or excavating the implicit medical assumptions underlying auditory cultures, the approaches that emerge from a historiographical or interpretive framework are different from those coming from the physician’s black bag.

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