‘The relationship between the mind and body raises innumerable challenging questions across the arts, humanities, and social science disciplines.

For those who come into professional contact with the human body every day in the National Health Service, the mind and the body are usually considered distinct from each other.

This is reflected in the organisational structure of the NHS, where mental health trusts are separate from other healthcare services.

Any medical interpretation of the human body, even while it is grounded in empirical evidence, is also inevitably shaped by the intricacies of cultural context, but this is often overlooked in contemporary medicine.’

This is my Body 

Details are here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2476/

This is my Body is an unusual collaboration between Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences scholars, Medical Science researchers and practitioners, nursing specialists and public health experts, exploring the relationship between mind and body.

• Keynote speakers will be Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene, and Professor Ludmilla Jordanova of Durham University. Ludmilla (a former Director of CRASSH) will speak about about ‘Cultures of Surgery’.

• Speakers include Prof Andrew Bradley (Transplant and Academic Surgery), Prof Robin Kirkpatrick (Modern and Medieval Languages), Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries (English Literature).

Other speakers confirmed to date from the Medical Sciences include [the appropriately named] Dr Roger Kneebone, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College; Dr Tariq Ahmad (Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery), Dr Harold Ellis (Department of Anatomy & Human Sciences, King’s College, London).

• Co-convenors: Dr Olivia Will (Dept of Surgery, Addenbrooke’s) and Dr Lucy Razall (Faculty of English, Cambridge).

• Registration closes 13 November.

• Venue: William Harvey Lecture Theatre, Addenbrooke’s Clinical School.

• Dates: 18 and 19 November.

• Details are here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2476/