Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture,
ca. 1660-1832, a new Leverhulme-funded project at Northumbria and Newcastle
Universities, is pleased to announce the first of a series of workshops.
On 12th October, Dr Catherine Belling will be speaking on ‘Hypochondria
and the Refashioning of Medical Uncertainty.’ Belling is Assistant
Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University's
Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago and the author of A Condition of
Doubt: On the Meanings of Hypochondria (Oxford University Press,
2012). With particular reference to the 18thc rise of pathological
anatomy and the late 20th c rise of clinical ethics and patient
autonomy, Belling will consider how the
meaning of the term "hypochondria" has shifted in relation to what
medicine has considered certain. The paper will be followed by an open
discussion on the changing shape of hypochondria through history.
The
event will take place on 12 October in 121 Lipman at Northumbria University
from 3-5pm. All are warmly invited to attend.
