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Tag Archives: illness narrative
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
Posted in Ideas, Reblog
Tagged arts, arts in health, exhaustion, first person account, illness narrative, ME, photography, visual cultures
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The Malady and Mortality Conference: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture (19-20 September 2013, Falmouth University)
Falmouth University will be hosting the Malady and Mortality Conference: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture on Thursday 19 Sept: a unique series of talks and lectures bringing together academics and specialists in the exploration of disease … Continue reading
Rethinking Approaches to Illness Narratives (Special Issue of the Journal of Literature & Science)
We are delighted to reproduce with permission Keir Waddington and Martin Willis’s introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Literature and Science on “Rethinking Approaches to Illness Narratives.” The special issue in part arose from Off Sick: Narratives … Continue reading
The Gothic & Medical Humanities (CFP, Special Issue of Gothic Studies)
The Gothic and Medical Humanities Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Gothic Studies Proposals are invited for a special issue of Gothic Studies exploring intersections between the Gothic and medical humanities. Gothic studies has long grappled with suffering bodies, and … Continue reading
“Illness – Stories & Experience: Arthur Frank & Havi Carel in Dialogue” (Seminar, London, 6 June 2013)
Illness – Stories and Experience: Arthur Frank and Havi Carel in dialogue Part of Goldsmiths’ Centre of the Body programme of events – ‘Exploring the Body: Interdisciplinarity in Practice’ supported by the Wellcome Trust Arthur Frank has been writing about … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Seminar
Tagged body, illness, illness narrative, interdisciplinary, medical humanities, phenomenology
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Narrative Medicine, Illness & Caregiving / Reading from Woolf’s “On Being Ill” (Talk, New York, 23 April 2013)
Please join Carol Gilligan, Jane Marcus, and Rita Charon as they discuss Virginia Woolf, Julia Stephen, Narrative Medicine, illness, and care giving, and read from Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen, Virginia Woolf’s … Continue reading
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Tagged care, Carol Gilligan, illness, illness narrative, medical humanities, narrative medicine, Rita Charon, Virginia Woolf
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“Alice in Bed” by Susan Sontag (Play, Newcastle, 27 Feb – 3 March 2013)
“Alice in Bed” is a raucous, joyful play based on the life and diaries of Alice James (1848-92), sharp witted sister to Henry and William James. In it we accompany Alice and her brilliant imagination on a captivating and ultimately transformative … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements
Tagged Alice James, illness narrative, medical humanities, Susan Sontag, theatre
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A Narrative Future for Health Care (Conference CfP and International Network Launch, London June 19-21, 2013)
A Narrative Future for Health Care Launch of the International Network for Narrative Medicine Co-Sponsored by the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London and The Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University, New York June 19-21, 2013 … Continue reading
Deepening the Discussion: Arts, humanities & the social sciences in the education of health professionals (CFP, Symposium, Québec City, 19-20 April 2013)
Creating Space III: Deepening the Discussion Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Education of Health Professionals The AHSSM (Art, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Medicine) Educational Interest Group is pleased to announce that a symposium will be held … Continue reading