Feb. 2025 Meeting Notes: Livingston’s Self-Devouring Growth
Our February 2025 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, February 26 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab, Greenlaw 524, with options for members to join via Zoom as well. We discussed Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern … Read more
Jan. 2025 Meeting Notes: Kroll’s “The Intersection of Gatekeeping and Dirty Work in U.S. Outpatient Pain Clinics”
Our January 2025 LMCC meeting took place on Wednesday, January 29 at 5:30pm in UNC’s HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524) and via Zoom. We discussed and workshopped a paper-in-progress by LMCC member Camille Kroll. The paper is titled “‘I Can’t Take … Read more
Nov. 2024 Meeting Notes: Buchbinder’s All in Your Head
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
Oct. 2024 Meeting Notes: Atkins’s My Imaginary Illness
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
Sept. 2024 Meeting Notes: Belling’s A Condition of Doubt
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
Aug. 2024 Meeting Notes: The Retrievals, an NYT Podcast
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
April 2024 Meeting: Meek’s Reimagining Illness
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
March 2024 Meeting: Fullwiley’s The Enculturated Gene
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
Feb. 2024 Meeting: Davis’s Reproductive Injustice
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
Jan. 2024 Meeting: Mol’s The Body Multiple
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