WELCOME to MEDENV
Funded by the Wellcome Trust, this network is led by Clare Hickman (Newcastle University) in collaboration with Chris Pearson (University of Liverpool) and Victoria Bates and Marianna Dudley (both University of Bristol).
Our key goal is to establish a network and programme of activities that explore the intersection between medical and environmental humanities. Our ambition is to lead research in this field from an historically-informed humanities standpoint and to develop future research collaborations to consider the rich nature of human and non-human interrelationships and their impact on health and wellbeing. One of our main aims will be to explore how the humanities can be of value in understanding the challenges facing humans and non-humans (which includes the environment as well as animals) in relation to physical and mental health concerns posed by climate change, environmental degradation, and animal-borne diseases.
This website will include information on our planned activities as well as highlighting research in this developing area.
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If you are interested in any of our activities, please do get in touch with any of the team. We are all on twitter:
@dr_hick @SniffThePastDog @DudleyMarianna @hospital_senses
New work in the Medical and Environmental Humanities
- Teaching Epidemic Histories: Medical and Environmental Humanities in the Pandemic Clasroom by Shirley Ye
- How to beat the heat: sleep and heat in early modern medicine by Lucy Elliott
- ‘Walkshopping’ at the Intersection of Medical and Environmental Humanities by Daniel A. Finch-Race
- Enviro-Medical Humanities Across Disciplines by Lindsay Middleton
- The many ways of knowing and examining Climate Change by Debojyoti Das
- Foreward to The Colour of Transformation film by Kathryn Aalto
- MedEnv Film: Climate and the City Workshop
- Follow the lichen by Bryony Benge-Abbott
- MedEnv Podcast no. 1: Karen Jones in conversation with Clare Hickman
- Thinking ecologically: A systems approach to the history of MedEnv by Tom Crook
- Natural living?: The intertwining of environment and health in open-air schools by Clare Hickman
- Dark-dwellers as more-than-human misfits: a new synthesis of disability studies, environmental history and histories of human-animal relations by Andy Flack
- Decolonise science – time to end another imperial era by Rohan Deb Roy
- From Los Angeles to Bournemouth, the Covid-19 crisis thrust beaches in the limelight by Elsa Devienne
- Nature and lockdown: how we can plan a ‘green recovery’ for our health by Jonathan Reeves
- Health Inequalities and Covid-19 by Krithika Srinivasan
Funded by the Wellcome Trust. Grant number 218165/Z/19/Z
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