Association for Medical Humanities Conference 2009

The sixth annual conference of the UK and Ireland Association for Medical Humanities takes place in Durham, UK, 6th to 8th July 2009, on the general theme Taking the Body Seriously. The conference’s aim is to bring humanities resources, both single-discipline and inter-disciplinary, to bear upon our understanding of how our bodies constitute both the possibilities of, and the constraints upon, leading flourishing lives. Key themes include:• the role of the body in framing experience, knowledge, values and the imagination• the place of the body in relation to creativity and the arts, both as generator and as object• how science’s methods and agenda reflect the fact and form of our embodiment; and• the place of medical conceptions of the body, health and well-being within prevalent contemporary understandings of human flourishingIn addition to these themes, there will also be a general section on topics of broad interest within medical humanities.