Collaboration

Networks

External Engagements

We cooperate with the health services, especially the Skåne University Hospital and Region Skåne, the joint public health services in Skåne (Scania). It’s our belief that collaboration with former students, as well as with associations for patients and their families, will help us focus on the right issues. Offering new perspectives, the Medical Humanities provide fresh opportunities to solve problems in healthcare.

Are you a colleague or student, or a possible external partner, keen to join us in shaping activities at our Centre? Send an e-mail to Asa [dot] Thormahlen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Asa[dot]Thormahlen[at]med[dot]lu[dot]se) 

The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities forms part of one of Lund University’s thematic collaboration initiatives. Researchers from four faculties and 14 external parties have come together under the theme of Existential resilience, aesthetics and shared humanity.

Current research projects with external partners

Thematic collaboration initiatives at Lund University

Professor Rita Charon at Columbia University (USA) became an Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, in May 2023 and an active advisor for the centre:

The Faculty of Medicine website on the Honorary Doctors of 2023

Interview with Rita Charon in connection with the Philip Sandblom Prize Lecture in October 2022

Networks

 There are ofcourse other centres for Medical Humanities in Sweden: University of Linköping and Uppsala University set up centres in 2020. The Swedish network for Medical Humanities currently includes researchers from 11 universities and university colleges.
The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities is coordinating the Nordic network for narratives in medicine, which is why the network has its own entrance on our website.

Webpages on the Nordic network for narratives in medicine

The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities collaborates with the Medical Humanities research node at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences. 

The Medical Humanities research node at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences

Bridging the Baltic is a network connecting History of Medicine scholars from several countries around the Baltic. The network arranges symposia and engenders publications, among them an anthology. 

Webpages on Bridging the Baltic Network

External engagements

One way of stimulating interest in the Medical Humanities among people and organisations we’d like to work with is to arrange outward-looking events of various kinds, adapted to dissimilar target groups. Our blog tells you about activities at the Centre.

The Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities Blog