Dissecting the Page: Medical Paratexts Conference. (360G-Wellcome-109050_Z_15_Z)

'Dissecting the Page' is the first conference on medical paratexts, to be held on 11 September 2015, University of Glasgow. Understanding paratext as the apparatus of graphic communication (titles, prefaces, illustrations, marginalia, etc.), the conference will combine periodic and disciplinary approaches to the paratextual study of medicine, from medieval medical manuscripts to contemporary graphic novels. It will draw together academics, archivists, and creative and medical practitioners inter ested in graphic representations of medicine. By focusing on medical paratexts across multiple periods, we hope to establish a multidisciplinary network of scholars, combining material, textual, and graphic approaches to medical history and practice. We have three keynote speakers: Professor Graham Caie, Professorial Research Fellow, University of Glasgow; Dr Deborah Thorpe, postdoctoral scholar, University of York; Dr Ian Williams, physician, artist and writer. All three speakers have expres sed interest in our conference. Prof. Caie will draw on his extensive knowledge of the Hunterian Collection. Dr Thorpe will speak on neurodegenerative disorders and medieval scribes. Finally, Dr Williams will discuss the creative and medical practices that influence his art, drawing on 'Graphic Medicine' and 'The Bad Doctor'. We will host fifty delegates, and intend to publish an edited collection from the conference proceedings.