Neil Vickers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Vickers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Vickers |
| SIGNATURE | VICKERS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0834-4284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Patrick Hayes, The Oxford History of Life-Writing, Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945–2020
This magnificent volume – the seventh to appear in the Oxford series under the general editorship of Zachary Leader – offers an interpretation of literary biographical writing from 1945 to 2020. It is, I think, best seen as a literary history of the period rather than a history of life writing strictu sensu: Patrick Hayes’s interests are unashamedly literary and his account of writing in which the biographical and autobiographical impulse appears…
Critique, critical theory and systems theory in the medical humanities: A history and a call to action
This article reconstructs the historical development and evolving conceptual architecture of the medical humanities since its emergence as a university subject in the 1960s. Originating in late 1960s US ‘values programmes’, the medical humanities initially deployed critique—philosophical, theological, psychoanalytical and sociological—to interrogate medicine’s epistemic authority, ethical commitments and social power. Yet, from the 1970s onwards,…
Entangled traditions: Philosophical and cultural foundations of the health humanities in France and the USA
This special issue of History of the Human Sciences offers a comparative exploration of the medical or health humanities in France and the United States, highlighting both convergences and divergences in their intellectual trajectories. While French thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem, and Paul Ricoeur are widely cited in Anglophone scholarship, the distinctively French traditions within the field remain underexplored. Conversely…
The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history
This article presents a comparative historical analysis of the development of the medical humanities in the United States and France. In the US, the field evolved through three major phases: an initial focus on human values and bioethics in the 1960s; a second phase from the 1980s emphasising culture, narrative, and transdisciplinary approaches influenced by the social anthropology of medicine and the biopsychosocial model; and a third phase, eme…
The narrative-based medical humanities, 1980–95
In this article, I consider the turn to narrative theory that swept through the medical humanities in the 1980s and 1990s. My primary goal is to offer what may be the first historical overview of the field in its decisive second phase (the first running roughly from 1960 to 1980). My focus will be on the efforts of scholars to mobilize ‘narrative’ and related terms to develop the medical humanities as a distinctive field of study. My approach wil…
Illness and femininity in Hilary Mantel's Giving Up the Ghost (2003)
(2003). The interest of the memoir derives from the fact that it provides an exceptionally rich picture of the impact of family life on a child's attitudes towards her own body. Mantel presents her bodily experiences as primitive, often unconscious, perceptions of the relationships within her family of origin. When she discovers new things about those relationships, she must register the change through her body in some way. Drawing on a range of …
The body in Martin Amis's Experience (2000)
This paper focuses on the presentation of the body in Martin Amis’s memoir Experience (2000) and compares Amis’s account of the growth of his mind and body with ideas put forward by writers in the phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions. Using the ideas of body schema, projective identification and idea of safety, it advances a new conceptual framework for the thinking about the contribution that the body makes to selfhood in autobiography
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
By Atul Gawande. Published by Profile Books in association with the Wellcome Collection, 2014, hardback, 288 pages. ISBN 978-1846685811, £15.99. This book is a jeremiad against the way Western society views mortality in general and old age in particular. We have tried to deal with mortality by treating it as a medical problem. “The prevailing fantasy”, Atul Gawande writes, “is that we can be ageless”. We bundle elderly people into nursing homes b…
At the end of life: True stories about how we die
Edited by Lee Gutkind. Published by Underland Press, 2012, paperback, 288 pages. ISBN 9781937163044, £10.99. This book is a collection of essays about dying. The essays were all first published in 2011 by a different publisher, the Southern Methodist University Press, under a different title, Twelve Breaths a Minute: End of Life Essays. They are reissued under the new title as part of ‘a series of narrative books on science and medicine supported…
Literary history and the history of neurology
Thomas Beddoes and the German psychological tradition
This paper considers Thomas Beddoes's role in disseminating German psychological ideas in Britain. It describes the German tradition as inaugurated by Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-93) and considers the chief differences between this tradition and the English one stemming from David Hartley. It is suggested that Beddoes found strong support for his convictions about human interiority in writings by Moritz and his followers. In particular, these enabl…
Adaptation Critical Review: Bright Star (Campion, 2009)
(2009). Adaptation Critical Review: Bright Star (Campion, 2009) Studies in Australasian Cinema: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 321-324
Roger Money-Kyrle's Aspasia: The Future of Amorality (1932)
This paper describes Roger Money-Kyrle's contribution to the To-day and To-morrow series, Aspasia: the Future of Amorality. Although many contributions to the series mentioned psychoanalysis in passing, Money-Kyrle's alone attempted to describe the difference Freud's science might make to the future of human society. Money-Kyrle's overlapping connections with the Moral Sciences ambience of Cambridge in the early 1920s, British psychoanalytic anth…
Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau
Book Review| January 01 2008 Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to RousseauFarrell, John Neil Vickers Neil Vickers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (3): 393–395. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659671 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Neil Vickers; Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau. Comparati…
King's Dialogues: Literature and Medicine
King's Dialogues:Literature and Medicine Introduction Neil Vickers (bio) and Brian Hurwitz (bio) The King's Dialogues in the Humanities is a series of lectures held from time to time at King's College in the University of London. The lectures are generally given by internationally celebrated figures. Typically, a scholar who has crossed a disciplinary boundary—often against prevailing orthodoxies—explains why he or she did so, reflecting, perhaps…
Trends in colorectal cancer care in southern England, 1989-1993: Using HES data to inform cancer services reviews
The monitoring of site specific trends in admission, treatments, and procedures on a population basis should be a core requirement of health authorities to inform needs assessment, resource allocation, and service planning. The rise in admissions and chemotherapy treatments have implications for drug costs, laboratory and inpatient services, monitoring, and clinical audit
The narrative-based medical humanities, 1980–95
In this article, I consider the turn to narrative theory that swept through the medical humanities in the 1980s and 1990s. My primary goal is to offer what may be the first historical overview of the field in its decisive second phase (the first running roughly from 1960 to 1980). My focus will be on the efforts of scholars to mobilize ‘narrative’ and related terms to develop the medical humanities as a distinctive field of study. My approach wil…
At the end of life: True stories about how we die
Edited by Lee Gutkind. Published by Underland Press, 2012, paperback, 288 pages. ISBN 9781937163044, £10.99. This book is a collection of essays about dying. The essays were all first published in 2011 by a different publisher, the Southern Methodist University Press, under a different title, Twelve Breaths a Minute: End of Life Essays. They are reissued under the new title as part of ‘a series of narrative books on science and medicine supported…
Trends in colorectal cancer care in southern England, 1989-1993: Using HES data to inform cancer services reviews
The monitoring of site specific trends in admission, treatments, and procedures on a population basis should be a core requirement of health authorities to inform needs assessment, resource allocation, and service planning. The rise in admissions and chemotherapy treatments have implications for drug costs, laboratory and inpatient services, monitoring, and clinical audit
King's Dialogues: Literature and Medicine
King's Dialogues:Literature and Medicine Introduction Neil Vickers (bio) and Brian Hurwitz (bio) The King's Dialogues in the Humanities is a series of lectures held from time to time at King's College in the University of London. The lectures are generally given by internationally celebrated figures. Typically, a scholar who has crossed a disciplinary boundary—often against prevailing orthodoxies—explains why he or she did so, reflecting, perhaps…
Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau
Book Review| January 01 2008 Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to RousseauFarrell, John Neil Vickers Neil Vickers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2008) 45 (3): 393–395. https://doi.org/10.2307/25659671 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Neil Vickers; Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau. Comparati…
Thomas Beddoes and the German psychological tradition
This paper considers Thomas Beddoes's role in disseminating German psychological ideas in Britain. It describes the German tradition as inaugurated by Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-93) and considers the chief differences between this tradition and the English one stemming from David Hartley. It is suggested that Beddoes found strong support for his convictions about human interiority in writings by Moritz and his followers. In particular, these enabl…
Adaptation Critical Review: Bright Star (Campion, 2009)
(2009). Adaptation Critical Review: Bright Star (Campion, 2009) Studies in Australasian Cinema: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 321-324
Roger Money-Kyrle's Aspasia: The Future of Amorality (1932)
This paper describes Roger Money-Kyrle's contribution to the To-day and To-morrow series, Aspasia: the Future of Amorality. Although many contributions to the series mentioned psychoanalysis in passing, Money-Kyrle's alone attempted to describe the difference Freud's science might make to the future of human society. Money-Kyrle's overlapping connections with the Moral Sciences ambience of Cambridge in the early 1920s, British psychoanalytic anth…
Literary history and the history of neurology
At the end of life: True stories about how we die
Edited by Lee Gutkind. Published by Underland Press, 2012, paperback, 288 pages. ISBN 9781937163044, £10.99. This book is a collection of essays about dying. The essays were all first published in 2011 by a different publisher, the Southern Methodist University Press, under a different title, Twelve Breaths a Minute: End of Life Essays. They are reissued under the new title as part of ‘a series of narrative books on science and medicine supported…
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
By Atul Gawande. Published by Profile Books in association with the Wellcome Collection, 2014, hardback, 288 pages. ISBN 978-1846685811, £15.99. This book is a jeremiad against the way Western society views mortality in general and old age in particular. We have tried to deal with mortality by treating it as a medical problem. “The prevailing fantasy”, Atul Gawande writes, “is that we can be ageless”. We bundle elderly people into nursing homes b…
The body in Martin Amis's Experience (2000)
This paper focuses on the presentation of the body in Martin Amis’s memoir Experience (2000) and compares Amis’s account of the growth of his mind and body with ideas put forward by writers in the phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions. Using the ideas of body schema, projective identification and idea of safety, it advances a new conceptual framework for the thinking about the contribution that the body makes to selfhood in autobiography
Illness and femininity in Hilary Mantel's Giving Up the Ghost (2003)
(2003). The interest of the memoir derives from the fact that it provides an exceptionally rich picture of the impact of family life on a child's attitudes towards her own body. Mantel presents her bodily experiences as primitive, often unconscious, perceptions of the relationships within her family of origin. When she discovers new things about those relationships, she must register the change through her body in some way. Drawing on a range of …
The medical humanities in the USA and France: Towards a comparative history
This article presents a comparative historical analysis of the development of the medical humanities in the United States and France. In the US, the field evolved through three major phases: an initial focus on human values and bioethics in the 1960s; a second phase from the 1980s emphasising culture, narrative, and transdisciplinary approaches influenced by the social anthropology of medicine and the biopsychosocial model; and a third phase, eme…
The narrative-based medical humanities, 1980–95
In this article, I consider the turn to narrative theory that swept through the medical humanities in the 1980s and 1990s. My primary goal is to offer what may be the first historical overview of the field in its decisive second phase (the first running roughly from 1960 to 1980). My focus will be on the efforts of scholars to mobilize ‘narrative’ and related terms to develop the medical humanities as a distinctive field of study. My approach wil…
Patrick Hayes, The Oxford History of Life-Writing, Volume 7: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945–2020
This magnificent volume – the seventh to appear in the Oxford series under the general editorship of Zachary Leader – offers an interpretation of literary biographical writing from 1945 to 2020. It is, I think, best seen as a literary history of the period rather than a history of life writing strictu sensu: Patrick Hayes’s interests are unashamedly literary and his account of writing in which the biographical and autobiographical impulse appears…
Critique, critical theory and systems theory in the medical humanities: A history and a call to action
This article reconstructs the historical development and evolving conceptual architecture of the medical humanities since its emergence as a university subject in the 1960s. Originating in late 1960s US ‘values programmes’, the medical humanities initially deployed critique—philosophical, theological, psychoanalytical and sociological—to interrogate medicine’s epistemic authority, ethical commitments and social power. Yet, from the 1970s onwards,…
Entangled traditions: Philosophical and cultural foundations of the health humanities in France and the USA
This special issue of History of the Human Sciences offers a comparative exploration of the medical or health humanities in France and the United States, highlighting both convergences and divergences in their intellectual trajectories. While French thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Georges Canguilhem, and Paul Ricoeur are widely cited in Anglophone scholarship, the distinctively French traditions within the field remain underexplored. Conversely…
Psychology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Law (4 works)