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Oxford Medical Humanities

Medical humanities examines the relationship between health and society, situating medicine and disease within their political, social, historical, ethical, and cultural contexts.

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Series organiser: Professor Erica Charters
Web Address: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-hub
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Friday 30 May 2025

14:30 - Roundtable - When the Doctor and the AI Disagree: Beyond Opposition
Karin Jongsma (Utrecht University), Giorgia Pozzi (TU Delft), Bartek Papiez (Big Data Institute, Oxford), Dominic Wilkinson (Uehiro Oxford institute)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

11:00 - Rethinking Methodologies: A Workshop in the Medical Humanities
Dr Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford), Dr Paola Esposito (Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology ), Dr Marta Arnaldi (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025

10:00 - Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities: Work in Progress Workshop
Various Speakers
17:00 - The Precarious City: New Regimes of Death and Disease in Early Modern Istanbul
Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University–Newark)

Thursday 3 July 2025

17:00 - Annual Ethics in Film screening 2025
Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford), Dr Victoria Bradley, Eleanor Kerfoot (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 July 2025

11:00 - Scenario Planning and the Medical Humanities: A Workshop for Uncertain Times
Various Speakers

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Editors: Belinda Clark, Krisztina Lugosi, Eleanor Kerfoot, Erica Charters, Alexia Lewis

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