Oxford Medical Humanities
@oxmedhum.bsky.social
Research hub @TorchOxford, Uni of Oxford
We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, law, and history, among others. Follow for updates on our work and events.
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-hub
We examine medicine and health from the perspectives of politics, philosophy, law, and history, among others. Follow for updates on our work and events.
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-humanities-research-hub
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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A panel discussion, taking place on 28 April at the Schwarzman Centre
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/healin...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Healing in a Technological Age: Spirituality, Religion, and the Practice of Medicine
torch.ox.ac.uk
January 27, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Healing in a Technological Age: Spirituality, Religion, and the Practice of Medicine
A panel discussion, taking place on 28 April at the Schwarzman Centre
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/healin...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
A panel discussion, taking place on 28 April at the Schwarzman Centre
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/healin...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Oxford Medical Humanities is now partner of the Ox-Cam-London Philosophy of Medicine Society. Check out the website for more info philmed.framer.website
January 26, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Oxford Medical Humanities is now partner of the Ox-Cam-London Philosophy of Medicine Society. Check out the website for more info philmed.framer.website
This term's DPhil and ECR medhums writing group will be held on Fridays, rather than Wednesdays
See more here: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medica...
See more here: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medica...
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
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January 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
This term's DPhil and ECR medhums writing group will be held on Fridays, rather than Wednesdays
See more here: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medica...
See more here: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/medica...
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Our Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group (HT 2026) is restarting on Friday 23 January. We’d love you to join us! tinyurl.com/ye2ajyxf
Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group
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January 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Our Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group (HT 2026) is restarting on Friday 23 January. We’d love you to join us! tinyurl.com/ye2ajyxf
Our new term card for Hilary Term is now available on our website. For more details about the single events and how to register torch.ox.ac.uk/article/medi...
January 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Our new term card for Hilary Term is now available on our website. For more details about the single events and how to register torch.ox.ac.uk/article/medi...
Look out for our Hilary termcard, which will be available via our e-newsletter and on our website at the beginning of term:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-huma...
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-huma...
Medical Humanities
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January 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Look out for our Hilary termcard, which will be available via our e-newsletter and on our website at the beginning of term:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-huma...
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/medical-huma...
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Writing for the Institute of Art and Ideas (@iai.tv) ethicist and medical doctor Dominic Wilkinson critiques the fashionable medical treatment “memory reconsolidation” which combines drugs with therapy to numb the emotional threads in painful memories: iai.tv/articles/emo...
#memory #trauma #ethics
#memory #trauma #ethics
Emotion and memory can't be safely separated
<p><em>Continuing <a href="articles/memory-is-not-stored-in-the-brain-auid-3420"><em>the IAI’s current series on memory</em></a>, ethicist and medical doctor <strong>Dominic Wilkinson</strong> critiqu...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Writing for the Institute of Art and Ideas (@iai.tv) ethicist and medical doctor Dominic Wilkinson critiques the fashionable medical treatment “memory reconsolidation” which combines drugs with therapy to numb the emotional threads in painful memories: iai.tv/articles/emo...
#memory #trauma #ethics
#memory #trauma #ethics
In this blog post from November, Tess Casher reflects on her master’s research findings surrounding medical perspectives on stammering
Read 'Dysfluent Illuminations' here:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/grad...
Read 'Dysfluent Illuminations' here:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/grad...
Graduate Research Spotlight: Dysfluent Illuminations
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December 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
In this blog post from November, Tess Casher reflects on her master’s research findings surrounding medical perspectives on stammering
Read 'Dysfluent Illuminations' here:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/grad...
Read 'Dysfluent Illuminations' here:
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/grad...
From the archive:
Read Steve Clarke's blogpost on ways in which philosophy, theology, and bioethics can work together to try to better understand the role, significance, and limits of hope and faith in healthcare.
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/misa...
Read Steve Clarke's blogpost on ways in which philosophy, theology, and bioethics can work together to try to better understand the role, significance, and limits of hope and faith in healthcare.
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/misa...
Misaligned Hope and Faith in Healthcare
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December 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
From the archive:
Read Steve Clarke's blogpost on ways in which philosophy, theology, and bioethics can work together to try to better understand the role, significance, and limits of hope and faith in healthcare.
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/misa...
Read Steve Clarke's blogpost on ways in which philosophy, theology, and bioethics can work together to try to better understand the role, significance, and limits of hope and faith in healthcare.
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/misa...
Our latest blogpost on our recent conference, seen from the perspective of an art historian @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/lite...
Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension
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December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Our latest blogpost on our recent conference, seen from the perspective of an art historian @torchoxford.bsky.social @uehiro.ox.ac.uk www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/lite...
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Our final event for the term is a presentation of historian Sara Farhan's book
Monday 8 December 2025, 12pm - 1.30pm
Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities,
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Our final event for the term is a presentation of historian Sara Farhan's book
Monday 8 December 2025, 12pm - 1.30pm
Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities,
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors | Book Discussion
torch.ox.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Our final event for the term is a presentation of historian Sara Farhan's book
Monday 8 December 2025, 12pm - 1.30pm
Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities,
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Our final event for the term is a presentation of historian Sara Farhan's book
Monday 8 December 2025, 12pm - 1.30pm
Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities,
@torchoxford.bsky.social
Two @torchoxford.bsky.social Medical Humanities and @uehiro.ox.ac.uk events on humanities approaches to death and dying coming up today (Monday 1 Dec, St Cross College, Oxford) and tomorrow (Tuesday 2 Dec, St Anne's College, Oxford). More information at this link: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/contro...
December 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Two @torchoxford.bsky.social Medical Humanities and @uehiro.ox.ac.uk events on humanities approaches to death and dying coming up today (Monday 1 Dec, St Cross College, Oxford) and tomorrow (Tuesday 2 Dec, St Anne's College, Oxford). More information at this link: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/contro...
From the archive:
Design, Visual Communication and Public Health: Investigating Multidisciplinary Approaches
Read Sally Frampton on the potential of graphic design in shaping public health campaigns and improving vaccine uptake
torch.ox.ac.uk/article/desi...
Design, Visual Communication and Public Health: Investigating Multidisciplinary Approaches
Read Sally Frampton on the potential of graphic design in shaping public health campaigns and improving vaccine uptake
torch.ox.ac.uk/article/desi...
Design, Visual Communication and Public Health: Investigating Multidisciplinary Approaches
torch.ox.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
From the archive:
Design, Visual Communication and Public Health: Investigating Multidisciplinary Approaches
Read Sally Frampton on the potential of graphic design in shaping public health campaigns and improving vaccine uptake
torch.ox.ac.uk/article/desi...
Design, Visual Communication and Public Health: Investigating Multidisciplinary Approaches
Read Sally Frampton on the potential of graphic design in shaping public health campaigns and improving vaccine uptake
torch.ox.ac.uk/article/desi...
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Visiting fellowship in ethics of AI at U of Oxford. #philsci
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Visiting Fellowship Policy | Ethics in AI
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November 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Visiting fellowship in ethics of AI at U of Oxford. #philsci
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www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
We're now on Facebook and Instagram! 🌐
Stay connected and follow our latest work, updates and events:
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November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
We're now on Facebook and Instagram! 🌐
Stay connected and follow our latest work, updates and events:
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Stay connected and follow our latest work, updates and events:
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📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
Apply by 30 Jan:
Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
Announcing our Medical Humanities In Practice Research Fellowship Scheme
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November 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📣 Applications are open for our 2026-27 Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship scheme! The scheme supports professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors to develop research within the medical humanities.
Apply by 30 Jan:
Apply by 30 Jan:
"One morning, I heard over the radio that Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff had been flown abroad for the treatment of malaria. I was perplexed at the news - why was he treated abroad, and not in Nigeria?"
Dr. Tolulope Osayomi on medical tourism among the African political elite ⬇️
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Dr. Tolulope Osayomi on medical tourism among the African political elite ⬇️
shorturl.at/w3QaX
What Do Foreign Medical Trips of African Presidents Reveal About Global Health? A Medical Geographer’s Perspective
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November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
"One morning, I heard over the radio that Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff had been flown abroad for the treatment of malaria. I was perplexed at the news - why was he treated abroad, and not in Nigeria?"
Dr. Tolulope Osayomi on medical tourism among the African political elite ⬇️
shorturl.at/w3QaX
Dr. Tolulope Osayomi on medical tourism among the African political elite ⬇️
shorturl.at/w3QaX
Our recent interdisciplinary workshop brought together anthropologists, philosophers, historians, and medical geographers to explore what 'equity' really means in a global health context
Read the write-up here:
🔗 blog.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2025/11/equi...
Read the write-up here:
🔗 blog.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2025/11/equi...
Equity in Global Health: reflections from the Humanities | Practical Ethics
Authors: Alberto Giubilini (philosophy), Caesar Atuire (philosophy), Sloan Mahone (history), Ann Kelly (anthropology), Tolulope Osayomi (medical geography) Report of the Medical Humanities workshop he...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Our recent interdisciplinary workshop brought together anthropologists, philosophers, historians, and medical geographers to explore what 'equity' really means in a global health context
Read the write-up here:
🔗 blog.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2025/11/equi...
Read the write-up here:
🔗 blog.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2025/11/equi...
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As debates on assisted dying continue, new conversations are emerging around radical life extension — from epigenetic tweaks to digital afterlives.
Join us for a thought-provoking panel exploring what these ideas mean for human identity, suffering, aging, and mortality.
Join us for a thought-provoking panel exploring what these ideas mean for human identity, suffering, aging, and mortality.
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As debates on assisted dying continue, new conversations are emerging around radical life extension — from epigenetic tweaks to digital afterlives.
Join us for a thought-provoking panel exploring what these ideas mean for human identity, suffering, aging, and mortality.
Join us for a thought-provoking panel exploring what these ideas mean for human identity, suffering, aging, and mortality.
From the archive:
Embracing Human-AI Disagreement In Medicine
Read Giorgia Pozzi and Karin Jongsma on the ethics of AI diagnostic systems, and what we should do when they disagree with human clinicians
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/embr...
Embracing Human-AI Disagreement In Medicine
Read Giorgia Pozzi and Karin Jongsma on the ethics of AI diagnostic systems, and what we should do when they disagree with human clinicians
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/embr...
EMBRACING HUMAN-AI DISAGREEMENT IN MEDICINE
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November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
From the archive:
Embracing Human-AI Disagreement In Medicine
Read Giorgia Pozzi and Karin Jongsma on the ethics of AI diagnostic systems, and what we should do when they disagree with human clinicians
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/embr...
Embracing Human-AI Disagreement In Medicine
Read Giorgia Pozzi and Karin Jongsma on the ethics of AI diagnostic systems, and what we should do when they disagree with human clinicians
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/embr...
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Join us on Tue, 2 Dec, for the conference “Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension.”
It will draws on a tradition, inviting scholars of literature, film, related fields, practitioners, to discuss topics related to life extension. Details: tinyurl.com/2ee4254p @oxmedhum.bsky.social
It will draws on a tradition, inviting scholars of literature, film, related fields, practitioners, to discuss topics related to life extension. Details: tinyurl.com/2ee4254p @oxmedhum.bsky.social
Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension
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November 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Join us on Tue, 2 Dec, for the conference “Literature, Film, and the Desirability of Life Extension.”
It will draws on a tradition, inviting scholars of literature, film, related fields, practitioners, to discuss topics related to life extension. Details: tinyurl.com/2ee4254p @oxmedhum.bsky.social
It will draws on a tradition, inviting scholars of literature, film, related fields, practitioners, to discuss topics related to life extension. Details: tinyurl.com/2ee4254p @oxmedhum.bsky.social
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Registration is now open for our public discussion reflecting on end-of-life
📅 Friday 14 Nov, Ashmolean Museum
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📅 Friday 14 Nov, Ashmolean Museum
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Coming to an End- Panel Discussion Event Reflecting on End-of-Life
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September 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Registration is now open for our public discussion reflecting on end-of-life
📅 Friday 14 Nov, Ashmolean Museum
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/coming...
📅 Friday 14 Nov, Ashmolean Museum
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/coming...
'Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities'
Read more about our latest DPhil and ECR workshop, which took place in June and included a brilliant keynote talk from Prof Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University)
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/evid...
Read more about our latest DPhil and ECR workshop, which took place in June and included a brilliant keynote talk from Prof Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University)
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/evid...
Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities: DPhil and Early Career Workshop
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November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
'Evidencing Life and Death in the Medical Humanities'
Read more about our latest DPhil and ECR workshop, which took place in June and included a brilliant keynote talk from Prof Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University)
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/evid...
Read more about our latest DPhil and ECR workshop, which took place in June and included a brilliant keynote talk from Prof Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University)
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/evid...
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Don’t miss our upcoming discussion this Friday: Equity in Global Health: Reflections from the Humanities.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/4eshs4he @anonymoxford.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social
Learn more: tinyurl.com/4eshs4he @anonymoxford.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social
Equity in Global Health: reflections from the Humanities
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November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Don’t miss our upcoming discussion this Friday: Equity in Global Health: Reflections from the Humanities.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/4eshs4he @anonymoxford.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social
Learn more: tinyurl.com/4eshs4he @anonymoxford.bsky.social @oxmedhum.bsky.social
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Former AfOx Fellow & current AV Tolulope Osayomi holds the VC's Research Culture award he won with the Medical Humanities team. Recently returned to Oxford as a TORCH Fellow Tolu is a medical geographer focusing on disease mapping.
#researchculture #congratulations
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#researchculture #congratulations
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October 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Former AfOx Fellow & current AV Tolulope Osayomi holds the VC's Research Culture award he won with the Medical Humanities team. Recently returned to Oxford as a TORCH Fellow Tolu is a medical geographer focusing on disease mapping.
#researchculture #congratulations
@torchoxford.bsky.social
#researchculture #congratulations
@torchoxford.bsky.social