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Human Identity and Biotechnologies: special issue just published

Alberto Giubilini, Andrew Moeller Crossposted from the TORCH Medical Humanities blog In 2024, the TORCH Medical Humanities Hub, in collaboration with the Stanford Boundaries of Humanity project and the Uehiro Oxford Institute, organized a conference on Biotechnology and Human Identity.  The conference inspired a special issue of the journal Bioethics edited by the conference co-organizers… Read More »Human Identity and Biotechnologies: special issue just published

Some reflections on Elena Conis’ lecture “Contextualising the Modern Era of Vaccination”

By Alberto Giubilini (Cross-posted from the TORCH Medical Humanities blogpost) It was a pleasure to host Professor Elena Conis (UC Berkeley) to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Medical Humanities program “Immunity and the Humanities”, supported by the Uehiro Oxford Institute. Elena Conis is one of the most prominent historians of medicine and the author, among other things, of Vaccine Nation.… Read More »Some reflections on Elena Conis’ lecture “Contextualising the Modern Era of Vaccination”

Equity in Global Health: reflections from the Humanities

Authors: Alberto Giubilini (philosophy), Caesar Atuire (philosophy), Sloan Mahone (history), Ann Kelly (anthropology), Tolulope Osayomi (medical geography) Report of the Medical Humanities workshop held on 7th November 2025 at the University of Oxford This interdisciplinary workshop wanted to explore the contribution that the humanities can make to global health, and indeed emphasize their necessary role… Read More »Equity in Global Health: reflections from the Humanities

Cross-post: Roundtable discussion “From Covid-19 to MPox: Lessons from The Humanities?”

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by Tolulope Osayomi and Mofeyisara Omobowale / first published 25th November on Torch News The roundtable discussion “From Covid-19 to MPox: Lessons from The Humanities? “, organized by Medical Humanities Hub at TORCH and the Uehiro Oxford Institute, featured four panelists with diverse disciplinary approaches to public health crises.  Two of the panelists were Oxford-based scholars in… Read More »Cross-post: Roundtable discussion “From Covid-19 to MPox: Lessons from The Humanities?”

(artwork and pictures by Anna Dumitriu)

Communication, Narratives and Antimicrobial Resistance

by Alberto Giubilini,  Sally Frampton,  Tess Johnson,  Will Matlock  Originally published one the TORCH Medical Humanities website The conference Communication, Narratives and Antimicrobial Resistance took place on the 16th of May at Merton College, Oxford, as part of the TORCH Medical Humanities programme and with the generous contribution of the John Fell Fund and the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical… Read More »Communication, Narratives and Antimicrobial Resistance

(Bio)technologies, human identity, and the Medical Humanities

Introducing two journal special issues and a conference Written by Alberto Giubilini Two special issues of the journals Bioethics and Monash Bioethics Review will be devoted to, respectively, “New (Bio)technology and Human Identity” and “Medical Humanities in the 21st Century” (academic readers, please consider submitting an article). Here I would like to briefly explain why… Read More »(Bio)technologies, human identity, and the Medical Humanities