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Notes from Galveston 2014: Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas
Back in Galveston! Invited again by the wonderful folk at the University of Texas Centre for Medical Humanities to spend another month working here on the Drawing Women’s Cancer project (drawingcancer.wordpress.com). I am delighted to be back on the island … Continue reading
Before and Since (the Wound) – Visualising the Experience of Pain
In painting the image of a child dying of hunger, my aim is not to make a re-presentation of a child dying of hunger, or to elicit or express what it feels like to watch a child dying of hunger. … Continue reading
Notes from Glaveston (Final Post): Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas
Week 9. This will be my final post in this series as my time in Galveston is coming to an end. My work in the anatomy department over the last couple of weeks reminded me however how much my visual … Continue reading
Notes from Galveston (Week 8): Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas
Week 8! Week 7 disappeared in a visit from a friend, complete with car, and an amazing (for an artist with a passion for the human form) voyage into the world of the University of Texas Medical Branch Anatomy Department! … Continue reading
Notes from Galveston (week 6), Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas
Scratch everything I said last week about 70,000 biking incomers to the island this week… word is that there were over 400,000 extra people here over this last weekend! It would not surprise me at all if this were indeed … Continue reading
Posted in Arts in Health, Ideas, Research Collaborations, Travelogue
Tagged arts, arts in health, history of medicine, illness, imagination and creativity, interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary, international collaborations, medical humanities, medicine, narrative, practice and the practitioner, Qualitative Health Research
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Notes from Galveston (week 5), Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas
Galveston is gearing up for this year’s Lone Star Rally which is a four day ‘bikers’ festival beginning on Thursday this week. Over 70,000 people are expected to roll into this small island and party all weekend. I love on … Continue reading
Posted in Arts in Health, Ideas, Research Collaborations, Travelogue
Tagged arts, arts in health, emotion, history of medicine, illness, imagination and creativity, interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary, international collaborations, medical humanities, philosophy, Qualitative Health Research
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Notes from Galveston (week 4): Jac Saorsa, Visiting Scholar, University of Texas
Just up from Murdoch’s on the Seawall is a structure that may at first seem strange to the uninitiated eye. It is the only piece that remains of the famous Balinese Room Pier. Four timber struts and a slatted roof … Continue reading
Notes from Galveston (Week 3): Jac Saorsa, Visiting scholar at the University of Texas
The air is cooler now in Galveston, there are clouds in the sky and the seabirds are not so bothered by swimmers and surfers in their territory. We even had rain the other day, hard, even torrential, somebody said we caught the … Continue reading
Notes from Galveston (Week 2): Jac Saorsa, Visiting scholar at the University of Texas
Each day I walk either along the shore, or past beautiful Victorian architecture in the nationally acclaimed ‘historic district’, to the office I have been assigned at the Institute of Medical Humanities. (To be fair, I actually have two offices… … Continue reading
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