Activities in the field of Literature and medicine
The following activities take place in the field of Literature and Medicine at VU Medical Center and the Free University.
Meetings
- Symposium VU Medical Center (Yearly)
- 20 doctors and a writer (4 times a year)
- Symposium about depression in fiction (15 september 2017)
- Poetry for and by doctors
Research
- PhD projects
- Euthanasia in novels and movies (2016)
- Depression in autobiographies (2018)
- Disease and creativity (starts July 1, 2017)
- Other projects
- Physician-writers
- The advantages of being ill.
Teaching
- Optional Course Literature and Medicine for medical master students (VU Medical Center) (NL)
- Literature and Medicine in the Higher Education for Elderly (Free University) (NL)
- Honours program VU and UVA: Illness, Image, and Metaphor: Cancer in Public Discourse. (Free University) (English)
- Honours program VU and UVA: Psychiatry in Literature. (Free University) (English)
- Courses on location
- Venice
- Vienna