4th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine
Registration and abstract submission are open for
the
4th International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine to be
held on Saturday 18th May 2013 in London at the Wellcome
Collection rooms on the Euston Road. The symposium will include
poster sessions, lectures, round table discussions and poetry
readings (President of the Poetry Society 2013 Hippocrates Awards
judge Jo Shapcott) and the 2013 Hippocrates Awards will be
announced at the end of the Symposium.
The programme includes keynote lectures from Anne Hudson
Jones from Texas, USA and Hugues Marchal from Basel,
Switzerland.
Listen to these speakers discussing poetry and
medicine.
There will be sessions on historical and contemporary themes,
illness and poetry, poetry as therapy, poetry in the education of
medical students, nurses and doctors, and poetry as an aid to
health professionals. The programme of lectures, round table
discussions, poetry readings and the Hippocrates Awards Ceremony
will be published on the
Symposium website.