This month’s LMCC theme will be health justice, or the correlation between social factors and the dispensation of health care and medical education. We will be reading Olivia Banner’s recent article “Structural Racism and Practices of Reading in the Medical … Read more

For our first meeting of the semester, we will be focusing on the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Langdon Winner’s article, “Do Artifacts Have Politics” is now available on our “Readings” page, as well as the optional reading, … Read more

This month’s meeting will be devoted to exploring the intersections of poetry and mental illness. We have two texts available on the “Readings” page and welcome participants to bring a poem of their choice to coincide with the theme. The … Read more

For our October meeting, we will be exploring intersectionality, assemblage theory, and theories of materiality more fully with Jasbir Puar’s “‘I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess’:Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory” as well as an optional reading: “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an … Read more

We will have our first meeting of the semester on Thursday Sept 29th, from 3:00-4:30 pm in the HHIVE Lab (Greenlaw 524).  This month we will be reading  “Critical medical humanities: embracing entanglement, taking risks” by William Viney, Felicity Callard, Angela Woods, as well as Mel … Read more

For our first summer meeting, we will meet at TRU in Chapel Hill to workshop pieces by Lina Kuhn and Mark Collins. The drafts are located on our “Readings” page.

For our last meeting of the academic year, we will workshop Jen Stockwell’s article draft, “Gestational Diabetes Testing, Narrative, and Medical Distrust” for the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. Jen’s article (and an optional secondary reading) will be available on our “Readings” … Read more

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Join us for our last meeting of the semester on Friday, November 2 from 10:30am-12:00pm in HHIVE (Gaskin Library, GL 524)! We’ll workshop Laura Broom’s article and Jen Stockwell’s book chapter. Both will be available on our Readings page. If you … Read more

We’re planning to meet again on Friday, October 9th from 10:30am-12:00pm in HHIVE (Gaskin Library, GL 524) to workshop Sarah Singer’s fellowship proposal and Lina Kuhn’s conference paper. Keep an eye on the “Readings” section of our website for those drafts and relevant readings. … Read more