NEWSFLASH
Since Eleanor and I departed on this collaborative journey ‘Lessons in Anatomy’, we have individually reached some amazing feats in our visual and literary practices.
Eliot North (pen name) has been commended for the above entry in the NHS category of the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, with her poem ‘The Milkweed Monarchs’
She will be attending 5th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine at the Medical Society of London rooms on the Saturday 10th May to receive her commendation by the prize judges Philip Gross, Sarah Brown and Robert Francis QC.
Congratulations Eliot North!
Since beginning the project, I too have achieved due recognition for my work.
I was invited to submit an abstract for a ground-breaking new volume: Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (released 2015), edited by colleagues at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle, comprising of Dr Anne Whitehead and Dr Angela Woods as chief editors, and Sarah Atkinson, Jane Macnaughton, and Jennifer Richards as Associate Editors.
Consequently, I will be publishing my article entitled The body beyond the Anatomy Lab: (Re)addressing arts methodologies for the critical medical humanities for the ‘Body & the Senses chapter. Here’s what to expect from the volume:
‘This Companion offers a landmark introduction to the field of the critical medical humanities. Distinguished from the first wave of the medical humanities, which was concerned with how the arts and humanities might enhance medical practice specifically by targeting medical education, the critical medical humanities asks rather how interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities might contribute to and critique medical understanding of the human individually and collectively.’
Having attended the publication workshop in Durham earlier in the month, for all contributing authors, I am set to tackle the first draft of my article…with plenty of holes to fill with research.
Onwards and upwards for us both.
