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Medical Humanities at Umeå University, Sweden – a Special Issue of Kulturella Perspektiv (Cultural Perspectives)
Britta Lundgren is professor of Ethnology at the Department of Culture and Media Studies at Umeå University in Sweden. She is currently working with the project “Epidemics, Vaccination, and the Power of Narratives”, financed by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg … Continue reading
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Tagged Britta Lundgren, Kulturella Perspektiv, medical humanities, Umea
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Musings From The Day Room – Mike White Reflects On Chemotherapy, Lanterns, Austerity & Mortality
Mike White‘s diary entry reads: 9th.January. I am up the Northern Centre for Cancer Care this morning for my chemo breakfast, the Special K in my treatment plan. The day room is furnished like the lobby of a budget hotel … Continue reading
Posted in Arts in Health, Ideas
Tagged arts in health, austerity, cancer, chemotherapy, lanterns, Light, narrative, spirituality
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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
Out of Darkness Comes Light – mysteriously beautiful photographs from a bedbound sufferer
Out of Darkness Comes Light – mysteriously beautiful photographs from a bedbound sufferer By Penny Clare “I was mostly confined to bed in a dark room – for years, and years, and years. At some point, in this isolated sea, … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, arts in health, exhaustion, first person account, illness narrative, ME, photography, visual cultures
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Hitching Arts in Health on the Road to Nowhere
Mike White writes: The country road in Australia is mostly A to B straight on and can seem to traverse interplanetary distance. Crossing the aboriginal lands of ‘first nation’ people, however, it is a road to nowhere as highlighted in … Continue reading
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Tagged arts in health, film, ideas, indigenous, medical humanities, review
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Alternative Psychiatric Narratives: Exploring non-traditional texts, voices, and spaces
Alternative Psychiatric Narratives is a conference taking place at Birkbeck on 16-17 May 2014. One of its convenors, PhD candidate Janet Weston, considers some of its themes in relation to her own research. When I began my PhD research … Continue reading
“There’s no lights on the Xmas tree momma, they’re burnin’ an artist tonight!”
Mike White writes: There was a hatchet job in Sunday’s Independent on arts in hospitals based on perfunctory information extracted on NHS expenditure on art works (accessible here). Those of us who are driving the development of the National Alliance … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts in health, NHS, policy politics and the collective
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PhD Studentship – Community health and wellbeing in contemporary British fiction and culture – University of Leeds
A fully funded PhD studentship, to start in February, as part of an AHRC-ESRC funded project under the Connected Communities research programme has just been announced. Full details are available here. The student will work on a topic entitled ‘Community … Continue reading
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Tagged English Studies, LCMH, literature and medicine, medical humanities, PhD stundentship
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Whistle While You Work (For Nothing): Positive Affect as Coercive Strategy – The Case of Workfare
In this post, Lynne Friedli and Robert Stearn look at the role of psychological coercion, notably through the imposition of positive affect, in UK Government workfare programmes. There has been little or no debate about the recruitment of psychology/psychologists into monitoring, … Continue reading
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Tagged critical medical humanities, critical public health, ethics, Lynne Friedli, positive affect, psychology, Robert Stearn, work, Workfare
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Two Fantastic Resources for Medical Humanities Reseachers
Just a note of introduction to those who have not yet accessed the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine. Co-ordinated through Queen Mary’s The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, the Wellcome Witnesses aim “to develop and strengthen links between … Continue reading
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