Join this fascinating meeting to study the background to the medical training and influences of poets, John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We will be assessing the formative influences this had on each and evaluating the extent to which the arts remain an integral part of exploring medicine and health.
This session will consist of two lectures by two renowned scholars, Professor Nicholas Roe and Professor Neil Vickers. They will be reviewing the lives of Keats and Coleridge to provide a better understanding of the influence of poetry on clinical practice.
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Biographer, Lecturer, Broadcaster and Professor of English, University of St Andrews
Professor Nichols Roe is a scholar of English literature and an academic, specialising in Romantic literature and culture. He is Wardlaw Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews, and Chair of the Keats Foundation. His biography, John Keats a New Life was published by Yale University Press in 2012.
Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities and Co-Director, Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London
Professor Neil Vickers is a Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities and co-director of the Centre for the Humanities and Health at Kings College London. He previously had a career in epidemiology and public health.
Viewing of medicine and literature exhibition in the library
Professor Sean Hughes, President, History of Medicine Society, Royal Society of Medicine
Professor Nicholas Roe, Biographer, Lecturer, Broadcaster and Professor of English, University of St Andrews
Professor Neil Vickers, Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities and Co-Director, Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London
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Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
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