Prof Ruth Richardson

About

Dr Ruth Richardson is an interdisciplinary historian, Writer in Residence at the Gordon Museum of Pathology at Guy’s and a Past President of the Dickens Society. For several years, Dr Richardson was Visiting Professor in Humanities & Medicine at Hong Kong University and an Affiliated Scholar in the History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK. She is the author of Death, Dissection & the Destitute (Chicago University Press, 2000); Vintage Papers from The Lancet (Elsevier 2006); The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Dickens & the Workhouse (Oxford University Press 2012). She is the co-editor two books on Medical Humanities published by the Royal College of Physicians of London, and has published numerous papers in a wide range of journals, including The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, Dickens Quarterly, and the Notes & Records of the Royal Society.

Session

Topic: Post Humans Beyond the Slab: A Fable
Date: 18 October, Saturday | Time: 13:00 - 14:00 | Venue: Academia Auditorium