Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Association for Medical Humanities UK Meeting "Creative Space Arts, Humanities and Healthcare"

Creative Space

Arts, Humanities and Healthcare

Fifth Annual Meeting

of the Association for Medical Humanities UK

University of Glasgow

8 - 9 July 2008


Call for Papers

The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Medical Humanities UK (AMH) will be held in Glasgow on the 8th and 9th of July 2008. There will be a pre-conference event on the evening of the 7th of July. The meeting will consist of invited plenary lectures, seminars and free presentations in parallel sessions.

We invite presentations on all aspects of medical humanities including:


• Visual Arts and Medicine,

• Arts in the Practice of Medicine,

• Literature and Medicine,

• Art Architecture and Design in Healthcare,

• Music and Drama

• Medical Humanities in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Curricula

• Medical Professionalism.

The leading themes of the meeting will be Visual Arts and Medicine and Arts Architecture and Design in Healthcare.

Abstracts (maximum 250 words in length) should be submitted electronically to Sheila LeVin at slv1h@clinmed.gla.ac.uk.


Deadline for submissions is 31 January 2008.