Medical Humanities Research Hub @TORCHOxford @UniofOxford You can also follow us at @oxmedhum.bsky.social
University of Oxford, UK
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This is the new X account for Oxford Medical Humanities, based at @TORCHOxford and @UniofOxford
We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, culture, law, and history, among others. Follow to learn more about our research and events.
The blogpost of our recent event on Medical Detachment is now available on our website
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Our last open event of the academic year is this Friday. A sociopolitical perspective to histories of immunology by tracing early discourses of immunity as they circulated beyond scientific developments and into public culture
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Our ECR/DPhil workshop tomorrow (Thursday18)+Friday19 June. Keynote by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL) on Friday morning: Fat tissue and the collapse of the subject-object divide in anatomical dissection practices
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Our last event of the academic year on Friday 26 June. Everyone welcome
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Our next event this Monday on Faith, Culture, and Public Health, discussing the way religious and cultural practices affect disease prevention. More information
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Our event this week is the Ox-Cam-Lon Philosophy of Medicine Society seminar "Understanding Symptoms: Diagnosis, Cure, and Bodily Reintegration", by Helene Scott-Fordsmand (UCL), with a commentary by Oxford philosopher Joe Gough. All welcome, details here torch.ox.ac.uk/event/underst…
During the break, keep an eye on our blog section, which is constantly updated with new content torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-human…
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Very excited to announce our Call for Abstracts for a workshop in Oxford on plague in the nineteenth-century with special focus on the Ottoman Empire, India and Russia.
Please use the link to apply! 👇
Deadline April 15, 2026 📅
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Two MedHum events this Friday, 6 March
- Unquiet Mothers: Violence, Care, and Maternal Ambivalence in 19th-Century France, with Susannah Wilson (Warwick)
- Contextualizing the Modern Era of Vaccination, lecture by historian Elena Conis (Berkeley)
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Our next event this coming Friday, 27 Feb, on music and health humanities. We will explore ways in which music engages with health, illness, and wellbeing (it will include live music on piano). More details at the link below
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Our next event is this Friday:
"Imagine a world in which every child’s future is mapped before their first breath. The theatrical script The Valley Children turns the abstract logic of prediction into human drama"
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What happens when science meets speed dating? 🔬
Our next Let’s Talk About explores surveillance. Hear from 4 speakers on data in healthcare, disease tracking & pandemic prediction.
📅 Thu 12 March
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Medical Humanities event this week at Reuben College, check out this webpage for more information. @TORCHOxford @ethicsinthenews
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Let’s talk about surveillance 🦠
Who decides how diseases are tracked — and whose data is used? From outbreaks to pandemic prediction, surveillance shapes our futures.
📅 12 March
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Healing in a Technological Age: Spirituality, Religion, and the Practice of Medicine
A panel discussion, taking place on 28 April at the Schwarzman Centre
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The TORCH Medical Humanities Term Card for Hilary '26 is now available on our webpage. Click on the link for more information about individual events and for registering (when needed) torch.ox.ac.uk/article/medic… @TORCHOxford
Look out for our Hilary termcard, which will be available via our e-newsletter and on our website at the beginning of term:
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