The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for our next meeting! We will meet on Wednesday, September 25 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, also known as Gaskin Library or Greenlaw 524.
Note: All of our meetings this semester will take place at 5:30pm eastern time on the last Wednesday of each month in the HHIVE Lab.
If you can’t attend in person, you can always attend via our usual Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/99228197675. If you have trouble with the Zoom link, please email either of the Co-Directors.
For our September meeting, we’ll be discussing Catherine Belling’s A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria (Oxford UP, 2012). Specifically, we’d like everyone to read the following:
- “Introduction: A Dubious Condition” (pp. 1-26)
- Ch. 01: “That Within: Biologies of Hypochondria” (pp. 29-40)
- Ch. 04: “Contested Authority: An Expert Patient Lectures the Physicians” (pp. 77-91)
- Suggested reading: Any additional chapter of your choice, ideally from Part III: “A Cultural Condition” or from Part IV: “A Narrative Condition”
Update as of Sept. 10: Catherine Belling might be able to join us on Sept. 25 to discuss her work, A Condition of Doubt (our thanks to Camille Kroll for helping set this up!). Please come to the meeting with any questions you might have for Dr. Belling!
All members of the UNC community can access the full text of Belling’s monograph online through the UNC Libraries. We’ve also posted .pdfs of these materials onto the “Readings” page of the LMCC website, including the book’s front matter and the table of contents (TOC). If you run into trouble getting access to the text, please contact one of the Co-Directors. (See our email addresses on the Home page of this site).
If you have any questions, please contact us directly. Please also feel free to share this info with other graduate or professional students who might be interested! We look forward to meeting with you all for an exciting discussion of this work!