Tremor: a biography of Parkinson’s Disease with Professor Dorothy Porter
- Professor Sally Sheard
- Suitable for: Anybody interested in the topic including university staff and students and members of the public.
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The Frances Ivens lecture for medical humanities and social science. - Tremor: A Biography of Parkinson ’s Disease from the Shaking Palsy to the Neurobiology of Compulsion
Estimates suggest four million people are affected worldwide by Parkinson’s Disease, a condition in which parts of the brain become progressively damaged over many years. In the United States one million people live with Parkinson’s and a further 60,000 are diagnosed each year. In Britain a new person is diagnosed every hour.
This talk explores how and why transformations have taken place in the material, cultural and experiential history of the disease from the time of its first description by James Parkinson as The Shaking Palsy in 1817. However, while this will include examining changing scientific explanations of its causes and in its cultural meaning, the analysis will also focus on the experiences of patients.
This talk will concentrate on the relationship of Parkinson’s patients to creativity and emergent, contested theories about a neurologically determined behavioral profile of the Parkinson’s personality. It examines a range of creatively expressive patients, including Wilhelm von Humboldt, Mervyn Peake, John Betjeman and contemporary artists such as Johanne Vermette.
The lecture will take place 5.30-6.30pm followed by a drinks reception with canapes. If you wish to attend the two-course dinner after the drinks reception, please book via the LMI Admin office: admin@lmi.org.uk (£20 per person, cheques in the post, made payable to the Liverpool Medical Institution, or by telephone).
Estimates suggest four million people are affected worldwide by Parkinson’s Disease, a condition in which parts of the brain become progressively damaged over many years. In the United States one million people live with Parkinson’s and a further 60,000 are diagnosed each year. In Britain a new person is diagnosed every hour.
This talk explores how and why transformations have taken place in the material, cultural and experiential history of the disease from the time of its first description by James Parkinson as The Shaking Palsy in 1817. However, while this will include examining changing scientific explanations of its causes and in its cultural meaning, the analysis will also focus on the experiences of patients.
This talk will concentrate on the relationship of Parkinson’s patients to creativity and emergent, contested theories about a neurologically determined behavioral profile of the Parkinson’s personality. It examines a range of creatively expressive patients, including Wilhelm von Humboldt, Mervyn Peake, John Betjeman and contemporary artists such as Johanne Vermette.
The lecture will take place 5.30-6.30pm followed by a drinks reception with canapes. If you wish to attend the two-course dinner after the drinks reception, please book via the LMI Admin office: admin@lmi.org.uk (£20 per person, cheques in the post, made payable to the Liverpool Medical Institution, or by telephone).