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Institute for Medical Humanities
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History

Medical humanities has had a dynamic institutional presence in Durham for more than twenty-five years.

Jane Macnaughton established the Centre for the Arts and Humanties in health and Medicine in 2000 and developed this into the Centre for Medical Humanities in 2008. In 2017 she led a team of researchers to secure major development funding from Wellcome, and in 2018 the Institute for Medical Humanities was launched at the Durham Town Hall. The Institute is currently led by Angela Woods, who has been in post as Director since December 2021.
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The Institute for Medical Humanities: 2018–2023

In the first 5 years of our Institute, our research into hidden experiences of health and illness spanned six interdisciplinary themes: Embodied Symptoms, Thinking, Feeling, Imagining, Fringe Cognition, Everyday Environment, The Science of Human Experience, and Critical Concepts.

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