Dr Christopher Sirrs, CHM Research Fellow, will be speaking at the Thackray Museum's prestigious Annual Insights Lecture Series, on the topic Insights: Hazardous Health through History on Saturday, 5 November at 10:00am.

He will be exploring the history of patient safety in the NHS, explaining why a systemic focus on the prevention of harm to patients – despite the ethical injunction for clinicians to ‘do no harm’ – only evolved surprisingly recently in the history of medicine.

Please click here to find out more information and to sign up to attend.

CHM will be holding a 2-day conference, ‘Situating Medicine: New Directions’ at the University of Warwick. It will be a major event to present findings at the end of CHM's most recent 5 year Wellcome Trust Strategic Award, and to discuss future trends in Medical Humanities. There will be a mixture of invited and bookable places available. More information to follow on the Events page.

Podcasts are now available via Warwick's Knowledge Centre for the 'Understanding Parenting: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives ' Conference; organised by Dr Angela Davis and Dr Laura King

Podcasts - Parenting in Modern Britain: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/knowledge/culture/understandingparenting/)

Conference Page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/events/conferences_workshops/parenting