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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
Posted in Announcements, Seminar
Tagged care, Carol Gilligan, illness, illness narrative, medical humanities, narrative medicine, Rita Charon, Virginia Woolf
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