The blogpost of our recent event on Medical Detachment is now available on our website torch.ox.ac.uk/article/medi...
Blog Post | Medical Detachment: Past and Present
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Oxford Medical Humanities
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Research hub @TorchOxford, Uni of Oxford We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, law, and history, among others. Follow for updates on our work and events. https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-hub
Our last open event of the academic year is this Friday. A sociopolitical perspective to histories of immunology by tracing early discourses of immunity as they circulated beyond scientific developments and into public culture torch.ox.ac.uk/event/shield... @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social
Shielding Power: Early Formulations of the Immune Self
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Here is a short report from the first workshop of our "Glossary for Global Health" project, in collaboration with Oxford Global Health. A first entry on 'equity' based on the workshop discussion will follow soon torch.ox.ac.uk/article/bolg... @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social
Our ECR/DPhil workshop tomorrow (Thursday18)+Friday19 June. Keynote by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL) on Friday morning: Fat tissue and the collapse of the subject-object divide in anatomical dissection practices torch.ox.ac.uk/event/object... @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine
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Our last event of the academic year on Friday 26 June. Everyone welcome torch.ox.ac.uk/event/shield... @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social
Shielding Power: Early Formulations of the Immune Self
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happening tomorrow!
Oxford Medical Humanities@oxmedhum.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin us on 11 June for an interdisciplinary event on Medical Detachment (organised by Charlotte Dewarumez). Coffee and biscuits provided. We look forward to welcoming you. Free registration via Eventbrite, link in our website torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medica... @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
@torchoxford.bsky.social Medical Humanities and Oxford Global Health, with support from @uehiro.ox.ac.uk, are launching a new interdisciplinary workshop series exploring key concepts in global health. The first workshop is tomorrow, Tuesday 9 June, on equity. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medica...
Medical Humanities-Global Health glossary - Equity
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Join us on 11 June for an interdisciplinary event on Medical Detachment (organised by Charlotte Dewarumez). Coffee and biscuits provided. We look forward to welcoming you. Free registration via Eventbrite, link in our website torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medica... @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
Our new blogpost about a special issue of the journal Bioethics, inspired by a conference on biotechnologies and human identity we run in 2024 torch.ox.ac.uk/article/edit... @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
Editorial: “Human Identity and Biotechnologies”
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Our next event this Monday 18 May 2026, 1pm - 3pm: The Integrity of the Human Species: Comparative Legal Perspectives Naz Gün (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales –Centre Georg Simmel, France) Jonathan Price (Univeristy of Oxford) (Room 063, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford)
The Integrity of the Human Species: Comparative Legal Perspectives
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Our workshop the next Thursday (21 May) dedicated to medical students but open to anyone interested in a humanities approach to clinical notes
TORCH The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities@torchoxford2013.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe look forward to welcoming medical students to the workshop ‘Defining an Integrative Framework for Interpreting Clinical Notes: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach’ on Thu, 21 May at 2:20pm. @oxmedhum.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @albertogiubilini2.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yddju22j
Still time to submit an abstract for our DPhil/Early Career Researchers workshop on OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY IN MEDICINE, 18-19 June, Oxford. Keynote by UCL philosopher of science Helene Scott-Fordsmand. Open to all disciplines in the humanities + social sciences. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-f...
Call for Abstracts | Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine
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Our next event this Monday on Faith, Culture, and Public Health, discussing the way religious and cultural practices affect disease prevention. More information at the link below @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
Faith, Culture, and Public Health: Translating Religious and Cultural Practices into Infectious Disease Prevention
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Our event this week is the Ox-Cam-Lon Philosophy of Medicine Society seminar on "Understanding Symptoms: Diagnosis, Cure, and Bodily Reintegration", by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL), with a commentary by Oxford philosopher Joe Gough. All welcome, details here torch.ox.ac.uk/event/unders...
Understanding Symptoms: Diagnosis, Cure, and Bodily Reintegration
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Our yearly DPhil/Early Career Workshop on "Subjectivity and Objectivity in Medicine" is on 18-19 June. Deadline for abstract submission 17 May. @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk torch.ox.ac.uk/event/call-f...
Call for Abstracts | Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine
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Also this year we invite submissions from DPhil students and Early Career Researchers for our interdisciplinary workshop in the medical humanities. This year's theme is "Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine". Details at the link here below. @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
TORCH The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities@torchoxford2013.bsky.social · 4mo ago📣 Call for Abstracts Objectivity and Subjectivity in Medicine Medical Humanities DPhil & ECR Workshop 🗓 Workshop dates: 18–19 June 2026 📍 University of Oxford ⏰ Deadline for submissions: Sunday 17 May 2026 Details: tinyurl.com/ym56v4d7 @oxmedhum.bsky.social @ethoxcentre.bsky.social
Before Munchausen: A Case of Child Murder in Nineteenth-Century France www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/blog...
Blog Post | Before Munchausen: A Case of Child Murder in Nineteenth Century France
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During the break, keep an eye on our blog section, which is constantly updated with new content torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-huma... @torchoxford.bsky.social
Medical Humanities
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From our Antitheses Platform friends: ‘Quality of Life Is Not a Measurable Outcome’, award-winning multimedia play exploring what it means to live as a profoundly disabled person. Concessions (5£) for students, free for disabled and essential companion attendees. Friday 27March,6–9pm Jesus College
What is the value of Quality of Life? Cost, Care, Choices | University of Oxford
Friday 27th March, 6-9pm Jesus College, Cheng Yu Tung Building, Turn St, Oxford OX1 3DW “What if your quality of life wasn’t something they cou
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New blogpost written by medical students Catherine Wang and Mahdi Murtaza on the relaunch of the Medical School Gazette, the world’s oldest and longest-running medical student journal. Its discussions intersect and develops important themes in the medical humanities torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...
Blog Post | The History of the Oxford Medical School Gazette
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Call For Abstracts | We are pleased to announce a call for papers for an interdisciplinary workshop on "Plague in the 19th century: Epidemiological & Epistemological Connections." tinyurl.com/5ypyrmhm @oxmedhum.bsky.social; @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @oxhumanities.bsky.social @albertogiubilini2.bsky.social
Call For Abstracts | Plague in the Nineteenth Century
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Our event on euthanasia, collaboration with the @uehiro.ox.ac.uk is coming up the next week. If interested please register from the link here below. We hope to see you there @bioetica-en-claro.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social
Oxford Medical Humanities@oxmedhum.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew event just added. What, if anything, makes a good euthanasia law? Comparing perspectives and experiences from Mexico and the UK and discussing fundamental issues around dying, the law, and the role of medical professionals. In collaboration with @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social
Our latest blogpost is now online!
TORCH The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities@torchoxford2013.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur latest blog post is now available to read and is connected to the event “The Valley Children – How Collaborative Creative Practice Can Help Us Make Sense of Predictive Genomics”, which took place on 20 February. tinyurl.com/3erzryfc @oxmedhum.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Prof Dan Kevles is visiting Oxford Brookes next week, hosted by Prof Marius Turda (Centre for Medical Humanities). www.confront-eugenics.org/2026/03/04/i... @torchoxford.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social @rossbrooks.co.uk
In the Name of Eugenics: A Reappraisal (19 March 2026)
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It was great to host historian Elena Conis (UC Berkeley) for a MedHum lecture guiding the audience through the history of vaccination and vaccines, both as a medical technology and as the focus of cultural and ethical tensions. Thanks to @torchoxford.bsky.social and @uehiro.ox.ac.uk for the support
New blogpost on our event the last week on Music and the Medical Humanities www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/musi... @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk
Music and Medical Humanities | Blog Post
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There's still time to sign up for Elena Conis' lecture this Friday at St Anne's College, Oxford www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-no...
Contextualizing the Modern Era of Vaccination
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Two Medical Humanities events this Friday, 6 March: - Unquiet Mothers: Violence, Care, and Maternal Ambivalence in 19th-Century France (book launch), with Susannah Wilson (French Studies, Warwick) - Contextualizing the Modern Era of Vaccination, lecture by historian Elena Conis (Berkeley)
