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Damaging The Body: Medical and Social Concepts of Harm (Film Launch, 6 December 2012, London)

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Research Summary: Damaging the Body Seminar Series

Topic: Medical and social concepts of bodily harm; cultural narratives of erotic asphyxiation
Event Type: Interdisciplinary seminar with film screening and scholarly presentation
Organizing Institutions: UCL Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines; University of the West of England
Featured Speaker: Professor Lisa Downing on “Cultural Narratives of Erotic Asphyxiation”
Format: Four short films screened as part of ‘Extraordinary Eaters' special launch event
Date and Time: Thursday, 6 December 2012, 6:30–8:30 PM
Venue: St Bartholomew's Pathology Museum, London
Disciplinary Approach: Historical and psychological analysis of harm narratives within cultural and medical contexts

UCL Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines in conjunction with the University of the West of England presents as part of the Damaging the Body Seminar Series:

‘Extraordinary Eaters’: Film Launch
A special one-off seminar and screening of four short films.
Professor Lisa Downing will also speak on “Cultural Narratives of Erotic Asphyxiation”

Thursday 6th December 2012, 6.30 – 8:30pm
St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum, London

For all further details, see this page on the “Damaging the Body” website. Our Augmenting the Body: Work and the Posthuman (Seminar, Leeds, 27 April 2017) covers related research worth reviewing.

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