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International perspectives on the development of research-guided practice in community-based arts in health
Mike White writes: Volume 3 Issue 3 of this international UNESCO e-journal is a special issue edited by Mike White and Sarah Atkinson of the Centre for Medical Humanities and Margret Meagher of Arts and Health Australia on international approaches … Continue reading
In and ‘out of focus’: IUAES conference, August 2013, with perspectives from 69 nations
Entering the foyer of the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester last week was an immersion into a world of multiple realities, cheek to cheek: expressed in the contrasting colours and cuts of clothing, and the colliding cross rhythms of numerous languages. … Continue reading
Posted in Arts in Health, Conferences, Ideas, Research Collaborations, Review
Tagged arts, arts in health, conference, film, flourishing, international collaborations
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King Lear in a Kelp Store: An Interdisciplinary Convivium on Papay Westray
Professor Jane Macnaughton writes: How was it that a group of ten philosophers, doctors, lawyers, a priest and an anthropologist, ended up playing Act 1 Scene 1 of King Lear in a renovated kelp (seaweed) store on the Island of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Russell, Beverly Clark, Body and Affect, Brendan Larvor, Clark Cunningham, Durham, education, ethics, flourishing, Georgia State University College of Law, Imperial College, Jane Macnaughton, Kevin Ilsley GP, literature and drama, medical anthropology, medical humanities, Mind, Oxford Brooks, philosophy of religion, policy, practice and practitioners, Roger Kneebone, Tony Gash, UEA, University of Herfordshire
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Madness Contested: Power and Practice (Review by Jonathan Gadsby)
Jonathan Gadsby, PhD candidate at Birmingham City University, reviews Steven Coles, Sarah Keenan and Bob Diamond, eds., Madness Contested: Power and Practice (Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books, 2013): It was impossible for me to read this new collection dispassionately and I will … Continue reading
Second International Conference Exploring the Multi-Dimensions of Well-Being (24-25 July, Birmingham)
Second International Conference Exploring the Multi-Dimensions of Well-Being 24 – 25 July Birmingham City University Well-being 2013 has a particular focus on examining how professions, practitioners, communities and individuals are reacting to the well-being agenda. The pursuit of high levels … Continue reading
Andy Burnham Headlines Shared Reading for The Reader Organisation’s Health Communities Conference 16 May 2013
Lizzie Cain, Communications Assistant for The Reader Organisation, writes: Andy Burnham MP, Shadow Health Secretary, will be discussing ‘The Books that Built Me’ at The Reader Organisation’s fourth annual national conference, Shared Reading for Healthy Communities, taking place at the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts in Health, Seminar
Tagged communities, flourishing, medical humanities, press release, The Reader Organisation, wellbeing
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Grimmer Up North? Health in An Age of Austerity (Debate, Durham University, 29 May 2013)
“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
Understanding Human Flourishing (A Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, Durham, 16 – 17 May 2013)
New! To see tweets from this conference, View the story “Understanding Human Flourishing” on Storify This two-day conference will bring together postgraduate researchers from a wide array of disciplines in order to explore interdisciplinary perspectives on, and ways of researching, … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, flourishing, imagination and creativity, medical humanities
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Longing for Sleep: Assessing the Place of Sleep in the 21st Century (Somatosphere Interview)
Somatosphere is a fabulous collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics. Over the last week they have published a series of posts on “The Longing for Sleep” introduced as follows: … Continue reading
Should universities teach well-being? asks Jules Evans
Jules Evans, philosopher, policy director at the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary, and author of the fabulous blog Philosophy for Life, visited Durham earlier this week. His just-published essay “Should Universities Teach Well-being?” addresses a question … Continue reading
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