Exploring Medical Cultures and the Sensorium
This one-day event will inspire debate on the role and significance of the senses within medicine. The symposium is interdisciplinary in spirit, and accordingly, will present papers from a wide range of disciplines.
The value of the senses as an aid to diagnosis is demonstrated throughout the history of medicine. However, advances in digital technology and medical simulation have extended and modified the range of perceptions available to clinicians. This extension of the senses, beyond the merely physiological, invites a closer investigation of our understanding of the sensorium, and what it means to 'sense'.
The symposium is free to attend, but places are limited. Please register your attendance on June 1 here.
The value of the senses as an aid to diagnosis is demonstrated throughout the history of medicine. However, advances in digital technology and medical simulation have extended and modified the range of perceptions available to clinicians. This extension of the senses, beyond the merely physiological, invites a closer investigation of our understanding of the sensorium, and what it means to 'sense'.
The symposium is free to attend, but places are limited. Please register your attendance on June 1 here.
Keynote Speaker
Jane Macnaughton is Professor of Medical Humanities at Durham University and co-director of the University’s Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH). She was appointed Dean of Undergraduate Medicine in 2014 with strategic oversight of Durham’s Phase I Medicine Programme. CMH was established in 2008 as a Wellcome Trust-Funded development from the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM) which she initiated in 2000. Before that Jane was a GP in Glasgow and a lecturer in the Department of General Practice at Glasgow University. Jane set up and now contributes to the personal and professional development strand of Durham’s Phase I Medical Programme.
Read Jane's full profile here. |