"Phobia: Constructing the phenomenology of chronic fear, 1789 to the present" to be held at Cardiff on 8-9 May 2009 (360G-Wellcome-088886_Z_09_Z)

£958

By examining shifts in the constructions of fear and anxiety disorders from 1789 to the present, this interdisciplinary conference investigates the social and cultural appropriations of medical knowledge. It aims to show 1) that changes in the cultural perception of phobias were reconsidered and redefined during periods of change and tension (during the long nineteenth century, at the fin de siecle, during the Cold War, in post-modernity), and 2) that this particular pathological .configuration was enthusiastically adopted, developed and transformed by literary writers, cultural theorists and the media. While the understanding of phobias was historically conditioned, the conference explores in what ways cultural representations of fear and anxiety disorders actively assisted in first disseminating and then transforming medical knowledge and scholarship. The cultural history of phobias is a multidisciplinary one. This conference therefore brings together scholars working in different fields of the medical humanities. It aims to generate a fruitful debate on the interfaces between the social history of medicine, science, literature and popular culture.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 958
Applicant Surname Plock
Approval Committee Medical History and Humanities Funding Committee
Award Date 2009-02-18T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2008/09
Grant Programme: Title Small grant in H&SS
Internal ID 088886/Z/09/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Vike Plock
Partnership Value 958
Planned Dates: End Date 2009-06-07T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2009-05-08T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Wales