Happily Ever After? Medical Humanities and the Happiness Agenda (ECR seminar, Durham, 20 February 2014)

  • Is happiness a helpful or meaningful concept in our work? What are its limitations?
  • What do our specific methodological, disciplinary and intellectual commitments bring to an understanding of happiness?
  • Does it make sense to speak of a distinctly medical humanities approach to happiness studies, and if so, what should this look like?
  • In a context in which studies of happiness turn evermore towards the economic and political sciences, what role might medical humanities – including philosophy, literature, ethics, and art – add to this discussion?
  • What takes place after happiness, and what should happiness scholars do with the profoundly unhappy, non-happy and more-than-happy?
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