Diseases of Modern Life

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Photograph of projection from Victorian Light Night

Podcast: Victorian Light Night, an interview with The Projection Studio

How do you turn five years of research into a spectacular light and sound show?

Title page of an old edition of Henry James's The Ambassadors

Tales of Two Jameses: Literature, science and medicine at the end of the nineteenth century

As a research assistant with Diseases of Modern Life, I will be looking at fin-de-siècle representations of mental illness and addiction, especially as these afflictions were conceived as being transferred among hereditary lines.

Edited photograph of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s image of a nerve cell. Originally taken by Irene Tobón and posted on Flickr commons. Some rights reserved.

Videos from Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health

See the videos from our conference, Mind Reading: Adolescence, Literature and Mental Health