'Malady and Mortality' Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture

Salkeld, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2626-965X and Rudolph, Ashley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9666-9099 (2013) 'Malady and Mortality' Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture. In: 'Malady and Mortality' Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture, Thursday 19th - Friday 20th September 2013, Falmouth University.

Abstract / Summary

MALADY AND MORTALITY 2013 will explore critical and creative responses to illness, death and dying in literary and visual culture. It welcomes a variety of approaches and perspectives (autobiographical, critical, visual, medical, fictional and non-fictional) and is open to artists, academics, medical practitioners, writers, journalists, medical technologists, undergraduates and postgraduates.

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Tony Walter, Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath Professor Alan Bleakley, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry Dr Michele Aaron, Dept. of Film and American Studies, University of Birmingham

Areas of interest include: The Body in Pain, Memory and Mourning, (e-)Narratives and Patient Testimony, Public Health and Medicine, Health and Environment, Disease, Disability and Subjectivity/Agency, Medical Identities, Illness and Digital Technologies/Patient Networks, Palliative Care, Quality of Life and Euthanasia and Death, Dying and Artes Moriendi.

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