Body and Mind Hub
Description
The "Body and Mind" research hub strives to contextualise the human body and mind within geographical, political, social, and historical dimensions. The hub reflects on the definitions and evolving symbolism of 'the body' and 'the mind'.
Key themes include the concept of 'disability' and its interplay with various identities and contexts, the historical evolution of emotions, from broad 'emotional distress' to targeted 'emotional honesty', and the social context of suicide. The hub also investigates disease categories, intoxication concepts, and scientific practices.
The hub's activities include a reading group, where seminal works like Judith Butler's "Bodies that Matter" and Lyndal Roper's "Oedipus and the Devil" are discussed. It has also housed projects such as Julie Gottlieb's 'Suicide Society and Crisis'. Presentations at the History Department Seminars have featured work from recent Sheffield PhDs on diverse topics including health and addiction in early modern England, tobacco consumption in seventeenth-century England, the rethinking of war disability in Francoist Spain, and the expert knowledge on liver and approaches to alcohol and health.
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
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Western Bank
Sheffield
S10 2TN
United Kingdom
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Sheffield
S10 2TN
Last modified:
2025-01-16 16:28:31