Medieval and Early Modern Research Group, Newcastle University, United Kingdom 05-06 July 2013
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/readingandhealth.htm

This symposium will explore how early modern texts engage with the regulation of the body and mind through reading. It will investigate the connections between reading and health and consider how reading was understood as an embodied practice in the period with profound implications for both personal well being and conception of the healthy body politic.

Historical Perspectives on Work and Occupational Therapy: An International Research Symposium

Oxford, 26 – 27 June 2013

This conference aims to provide a platform for exchange to scholars who are working on varied aspects of labour and occupation in relation to the history of health and medicine broadly conceived. The idea is to encourage critical engagement with the various medical, social and political factors implicated in how work and occupational therapy developed within specific national and clinical contexts and at different periods.

25-27 March, 2013
University of Surrey, Guildford

"DSM: The History,Theory, and Politics of Diagnosis"

Keynote Speaker: Professor Ian Parker

2013 marks the 40-year anniversary of the vote by the members of the American Psychiatric Association to remove ?homosexuality? from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). 2013 is also the publication
date of the fifth edition of the DSM.

To mark this anniversary and this event, the History and Philosophy Section have themed the 2013 conference 'DSM: The History,Theory, and Politics of Diagnosis.'

At Cardiff University and the University of Glamorgan.

The British Society for Literature and Science invites proposals for papers and panels to be delivered at its eighth annual conference to be held in Cardiff, 11-13 April 2013.

Civilising Bodies: Literature, rhetoric and image 1700—present day

25-26 April 2013, University of Exeter.

The Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter is holding an interdisciplinary conference open to postgraduates and academics at any level.

The narratives, discourses, and imagery of bodies and their relationship with civilisation have affected a diverse range of media, from novels, poetry, and political tracts to art and film, and the conference organisers are eager for submissions examining a wide a range of sources from 1700 to the present day.