Colloque – Dickens and Medicine
Royal Society of Medicine History of Medicine Section
Wednesday 15 June 2011 London, United Kingdom
Venue: 40 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ
The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
Gordon Museum, Hodgkin House, Guy’s Campus, GTK St Thomas’s Street, London, SE1 9RT
Morning at the Foundling Museum
9.40 am
Registration
10.00 am
Introduction and welcome
Dr Claire Elliott, President, History of Medicine Section 2010-2011, RSM
10.05 am
Dickens and doctors
Professor Andrew Sanders, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Durham, Past President of the Dickens Fellowship
10.55 am
Dickens readings
11.15 am
Tea and coffee break
11.30 am
Dickens and the Foundling Museum
Ms Jane King, The Foundling Museum
Three options: 11.50 am-1.00 pm
Option 1: Charles Dickens museum tour and visit then Foundling Museum visit
Option 2: Foundling museum visit and Charles Dickens museum tour and visit
Option 3: Walking tour of Bloomsbury
Led by Anthony Burton, Former Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, former Chair of Trustees at The Charles Dickens Museum
1.00 pm
Lunch at The Foundling Museum Café
2.00 pm
Travel to Guys Medical School, St Thomas’ Street
Afternoon at the Gordon Museum, Guys Medical School
2.30 pm
Dickens, disease and disability
Mrs Thelma Grove, Retired Speech Therapist, Honorary Life Member and former Joint Honorary General Secretary of The Dickens Fellowship
3.00 pm
Your very good health: Medical matters in Dickens’s journals
Dr Tony Williams, Associate Editor of The Dickensian, Honorary Research Fellow in Humanities at the University of Buckingham
3.30 pm
Dickens readings
Two options: 3.45 pm -5.00 pm
Option 1: Walking tour of Dickens and the borough
Option 2: Gordon museum tour and visit
5.00 pm
Close of meeting
Meeting ref: HSB07
Contact:
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Tags: Histoire, Littérature