The Literature, Medicine, and Culture Colloquium (LMCC) at UNC is excited for our next meeting! We will meet on Wednesday, February 25 at 5:30pm eastern time strictly over Zoom, using our usual link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/99228197675. If you have trouble with the Zoom link, please email either of the Co-Directors. (See our email addresses on the “Home” page of this site.)
(We plan to return to the HHIVE Lab for our March and April meetings, with options for people to join in real-time via Zoom as well.)
For our February meeting, we’ll be discussing Michel Foucault’s The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (1963; trans. by A. M. Sheridan Smith, 1973). Specifically, we’d like everyone to read the following:
- Preface (pp. ix-xix)
- Chapter 1: “Spaces and Classes” (pp. 3-21)
- Suggested optional reading: Chapter 6: “Signs and Cases” (pp. 88-106)
We think these readings will serve as a productive follow-up from last month’s exploration of polio and the historiography of medicine.
For your convenience, we’ve posted these materials onto the “Readings” page of the LMCC website. 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!