You are warmly invited to attend the fourth of our research seminars this term with Dr Anne Whitehead, University of Newcastle. The seminar takes place on Wednesday March 1st, 6pm – 7.20pm in the Business School Room 1.24. We are planning to go for a drink and for something to eat after the seminar at Refuge on Oxford Road. 

Dr Anne Whitehead, University of Newcastle

This talk will address the notion of empathy in the medical humanities, arguing the need for a more critical and more political understanding of the term. It will draw on a range of feminist theorists to indicate some potential starting points for articulating a version of empathy for the critical medical humanities.

About Our Speaker

Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University. Author of Trauma Fiction (2004) and Memory: New Critical Idiom (2008), she has more recently co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (2016) and her next monograph, Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction, is forthcoming in 2017.