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

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