A conference on the Diseases of Modern Life to be held at St Annes College, Oxford.

What: Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century

When and Where: 10th – 11th September 2016; St Annes College, Oxford, England

Deadline for Abstracts: Friday 4th of December, 2015

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Representations of ‘modern’ disorders and neuroses in literature and the medical press
• Defining modernity and its problems in the nineteenth century
• Medical and psychiatric constructions of modern life
• Social and mental health and welfare
• Diseases from pollution and changing nineteenth-century environments
• Diseases from worry, overwork, and mental or physical strain
• Diseases from excess, self-abuse, stimulants, and narcotics
• The role of machinery and technology in causing or curing disease
• Changing relationships between doctors and patients
• Emerging medical specialisms
• Global modernities