Projects

• Community Commons

• Culture and the Reproduction of Myths About Aging

  (King's College London)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute (University College London)

  (King's College London)

biography

Neil Vickers (PI), D.Phil, is Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities at Kings College London. He has been codirector of King's Centre for the Health Humanities since 2014, first with Brian Hurwitz and, following the latter's retirement in 2020, with Patrick ffrench and Martina Zimmermann. His most recent book, Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment, jointly authored with Derek Bolton, came out in 2024 with Reaktion Books (available in the US from the University of Chicago Press). During the academic year 2024-5 he was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust to research and write what he hopes will be the first book-length history of the medical/health humanities.

research interests

The history of the medical humanities; the medical humanities and the health sciences; the history of the Psy disciplines; methodological questions in the health humanities.