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Martina Zimmermann: "An Agenda for the Medical Humanities and Ageing" — 21 April 2026

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21 April, 5.00 p.m., HS 47.02 and online

 

Master's Module+ Introduction to Health Humanities

 

21 April 2026

17:00–18:30

HS 47.02

Online: https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/61723742495?pwd=ukXcrqS0bGa55Q3UYMEMIDygsCAxiW.1s

 

 

 

Martina Zimmermann

King’s College London

“An Agenda for the Medical Humanities and Ageing: A ‘Biological Turn’ in the Medical Humanities That Integrates Narrative and Empowers Policy” (Lecture in English)

 

Martina Zimmermann is a Reader in Health Humanities and Health Sciences in the Department of English at King’s College London. With a long-standing background in neuropharmacology (including a Habilitation in Pharmacology from Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and a second PhD in the Health Humanities, she has written two monographs on cultural and scientific narratives of dementia. She currently leads a research programme on ageing, The Sciences of Ageing and the Culture of Youth, funded by a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship.

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