Literature & Pathology
Conference
University of California, Davis
May 22 - May 24, 2009
Panel Topics Will Include
The conference provides a venue for productive interdisciplinary discussions of the representations and narrations of pathology and literature. It brings together perspectives of scholars from the sciences, social sciences and the humanities.
- Dissection and the Medical Gaze
- Learning from Pathography
- Somatic Illness and Memory
- Resisting Medicalization, Retaining Control
- Defining Madness
- Pathologized Women
- Pathology and the Social Body
- Medical Imaging
Participants
Hosts:
UC Davis Department of English Faculty & Graduate Students
UCD School of Medicine Faculty and Students
Guest Speakers:
Professor Mark Micale, University of Illinois
Organizers:
Dr. Faith Fitzgerald
Professor, Internal Medicine, UCDMC
Director, Program in Bioethics, UCDMC
Jessica Howell, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow in English, UCD
Anne Stiles, Ph.D.
Professor of English, Washington State University
Stuart Gallant
Medical Student, UCD
Sponsors:
