Consultation visit for Medical Humanities by Professor Jane Schultz (April 16-20, 2012)

poster Professor Jane Schultz will be visiting the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine during April 16 to 20, 2012 as the External Advisor to the Medical Humanities (MH) curriculum.

Professor Jane E. Schultz is Professor of English and the Medical Humanities, and Director of Literature at Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis. She comes to the medical humanities by way of an interest in narrative forms and the hospital as a site of social and political interaction. “Women at the Front” (University of North Carolina, 2004), her study of gender and relief work in American Civil War military hospitals, was a finalist for the 2005 Lincoln Prize, awarded for the best book on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era. In 2010 Professor Schultz published “This Birth Place of Souls” (Oxford), an annotated edition of one of the last extant nursing diaries from the Civil War.

Professor Schultz is also the editor of “Cancer Stories”, a special issue of Literature and Medicine [29.2 (Fall 2009)] devoted to framing the field of critical cancer studies. Currently she is at work on a project that seeks to understand the interplay of physicians and patients in cancer diagnosis.


You are welcome to attend the following Medical Humanities Seminar and Workshops at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine:
 
Lunchtime Seminar (For all staff and students of HKU):
 
Title: "Reading the Body, Seeking the Text: Narrative Practice and the Art of Diagnosis"
Date: April 16, 2012 (Monday)
Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm
Venue: Seminar Room 2, G/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Hong Kong 
(Light lunch will be provided)
 
Abstract: ( http://www.med.hku.hk/files/Lunchtime%20Seminar.doc )
 
Online registration: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?UEID=18923 (registration deadline: April 12, 2012 noon)
 
 
Workshop (For all staff of HKU only):
 
Title: "Integrating the Medical Humanities into a Science-Based Curriculum: Tapping Student Creativity to Enhance the Practice of Medicine"
Date: April 17, 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:30 - 5:30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 4, G/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Hong Kong   
 
Abstract: ( http://www.med.hku.hk/files/workshop%20I.doc )
 
Online registration:  http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?UEID=18924 (registration deadline: April 16, 2012)
 
 
Workshop (For all staff of HKU only):
 
Title: "Evaluating Narrative Competence in the Medical Humanities: The Verbal and the Visual"
Date: April 19, 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: Faculty Board Room B, 6/F, William MW Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Hong Kong
 
Abstract: ( http://www.med.hku.hk/files/workshop%20II.doc )
Online registration: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?UEID=18924 (registration deadline: April 16, 2012)
 
 
ALL are WELCOME.
 
For enquiries, please email pnlyu@hku.hk or ssypang@hku.hk or xsliu@hku.hk.