“The Ethics of Medical Photography Network”

Friday, January 31st on zoom • 12 Noon EST • 5pm BST

Event held via zoom • Registration Link

Photography Network membership is required to attend.

Broken glass plate, Salpêtrière glass plate collection, Countway Library. 5c (Negative: 02534) Box 386 (B3), Countway Library.

In this presentation, Dr Beatriz Pichel and Dr Katherine Rawling will talk about their project “The Ethics of Medical Photography: Past, Present and Future”, a multidisciplinary network supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK. We will introduce the main questions and aims of the network and reflect on early results and challenges we are starting to see after the organisation of the first network activities.

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Dr Beatriz Pichel (she/her) is the Principal Investigator of the project and Associate Professor at the Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University. She works at the intersection of photographic history, the history of medicine, medical humanities and the history of emotions.

Dr Katherine Rawling (she/her) is the Co-Investigator of the project and Lecturer in Nineteenth-century British History at the University of Leeds and a former Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow in the Medical Humanities. She specialises in the history of medical photography, particularly in psychiatric institutions of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century.