Our November 2024 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, November 20 at 5:30pm in Greenlaw 509 (temporarily relocated from UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain (U of … Read more

Our October 2024 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, October 30 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed My Imaginary Illness: A Journey into Uncertainty and Prejudice in Medical Diagnosis (Cornell UP, 2011) by … Read more

Our September 2024 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, September 25 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed A Condition of Doubt: The Meanings of Hypochondria by Catherine Belling (Oxford UP, 2012). Dr. Belling … Read more

Our August 2024 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, August 28 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed The Retrievals, a podcast from The New York Times by Susan Burton, Laura Starecheski, Julie Snyder, … Read more

Our April 2024 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, April 24 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed Reimagining Illness: Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Heather Meek (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2023). Specifically, … Read more

Our March 2024 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, March 27 at 5:30pm via Zoom. (Because of the expected storm and because Thursday was a campus Well-Being Day, we opted to hold this meeting exclusively via Zoom. For our April … Read more

Our February 2024 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, February 28 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis (NYU Press, 2019). Specifically, we discussed: … Read more

Our January 2024 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, January 31 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice by Annemarie Mol (Duke UP, 2002). Specifically, we discussed: … Read more

Our November LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, November 29 at 5:45pm in UNC’s newly renovated HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed “The Pain Scale” by Eula Biss, originally published in Harper’s Magazine, 2005. If you missed … Read more

Our October LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, October 25 at 5:45pm in UNC’s newly renovated HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald (Duke UP, 2008). Specifically, we … Read more