Tag Archives: practice and the practitioner

Connections and Communities in Health and Medicine (CfP, Conference, Canada, September 12-14 2013)

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

Manitoba-Northwest Ontario-Minnesota-Saskatchewan (MOMS) & Society for the Social History of Medicine Postgraduate/Early Career History of Medicine Conference September 12th-14th, 2013 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Connections and Communities in Health and Medicine In September 2013 the University of Saskatchewan will … Continue reading →

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Grimmer Up North? Health in An Age of Austerity (Debate, Durham University, 29 May 2013)

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

“Grimmer Up North? Health in An Age of Austerity,” an event jointly presented by the Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing and DEMOS. 5.30-8pm,Wednesday 29th May 2013. Lindisfarne Centre, St Aiden’s College, Windmill Hill, Durham University. DH1 3LJ This … Continue reading →

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Clinical Practice and the Value of Narrative (NHS Workshop, Leeds, April 24 2013)

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

I am delighted to have been invited by Stuart Murray to co-present at an upcoming workshop on narrative in clinical practice. Places are still available for this CPD-accredited course and bookings can be made here. Clinical Practice and the Value … Continue reading →

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Encounters with Medical Materialities at Medical Museion in Copenhagen

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

Arriving for this two day workshop entitled ‘Its Not What you Think: Communicating Medical Materialities’, my most visceral encounter was with the weather.  The sub-zero temperatures blowing directly from Russia turned Gothersgade into an easterly wind tunnel as I trudged … Continue reading →

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Two Medical Humanities Talks from the Institute of Arts and Ideas

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

Diagnoses of clinical depression are on the rise. Are we medicalising necessary emotions? In Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain, Consultant Psychiatrist, filmmaker and writer Mark Salter makes the case for the value of sadness. Even though the successes of … Continue reading →

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Listen Here: exploring the arts and health issues raised by Alice in Bed (Workshop: Newcastle, 28 February 2013)

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

LISTEN HERE is a day of talks and workshops exploring the arts and health issues raised by Tender Buttons’ Alice in Bed. Tender Buttons’ site specific production of Susan Sontag’s play Alice in Bed will take place at The Stephenson … Continue reading →

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Mike White on “Acting local, thinking global in arts and health”

Posted on February 4, 2013 by

Mike White, Senior Research Fellow in Arts and Health in the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University, sets out the case for community based arts and health in a recent article for ANIMATED – The Community Dance Magazine: “The … Continue reading →

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International Society of Critical Health Psychology (CfP,8th Biennial Conference, Bradford July 2013)

Posted on January 22, 2013 by

The 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP) will be held at the University of Bradford in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, 22nd-24th July 2013. This conference is being organised by a consortium comprising the universities of … Continue reading →

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Ethics Under Cover: Comics, Medicine and Society (CfP, 4th International Conference of Comics and Medicine, Brighton, July 2013)

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

4th International Conference of Comics and Medicine Ethics Under Cover: Comics, Medicine and Society 5th-7th July 2013 Brighton and Sussex Medical School Brighton and Sussex Medical School in collaboration with Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust and Graphic Medicine invites papers for … Continue reading →

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Common Knowledge: A New Consultancy Offering Best Practice in Arts in Health and Education

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

Common Knowledge assists project management, action research and learning development in arts in health. We offer an independent and competitively priced consultancy with practical support on: •Developing arts in health projects with communities and schools • Workforce learning programmes that … Continue reading →

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