Health From Cradle to Grave: Birthing Chair to the Death Couch

An exhibition highlighting the work from English at Loughborough University's Health Humanities Research Network. The exhibition was curated by Sara Read and Jade French from the English Department within the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

The exhibition’s themes translate and distil high-quality research on health, society and culture across time and space into material objects, art, poetry, life writing, and literature. The work on display represents individual research endeavours and narrativises the sickness, health and wellbeing contexts across time and space. Representing periods from the early modern to the contemporary, the exhibition shows the transhistorical connections between objects and words.

There was a closing event with readings on Tuesday 23 April from 4-6pm in the exhibition space. During the event six members of the Health Humanities Research Group: Megan Constable, Jennifer Cooke, Tamarin Norwood, Rai Powell, Kerry Featherstone and Sara Read gave readings from their health humanities research-led creative writing.

Martin Hall Exhibition Space, Loughborough University, 27 March - 23 April 2024, 12:00-14:00.