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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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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
The Mental Health Recovery Archive, The Wellcome Trust – review of its ‘soft launch’ (9 December 2013)
Roz Oates, a doctoral student in Durham’s Centre for Medical Humanities and Department of Geography, who is also part of the Hearing the Voice research team, writes: The Mental Health Recovery Archive at the Wellcome Trust On Monday 9 December, … Continue reading
Transspecies Entanglements: Animal Assistants in Narratives about the Intellectually Disabled – David Herman (Seminar, Durham, 10th December 2013)
A seminar presented by the Centre for Medical Humanities to be held at Williams Library, St Chad’s College, 5.15—7pm. After surveying work on the definition, history, possible mechanisms, and relative efficacy of Animal-Assisted Activities (AAA) and Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT), this … 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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Narrative Knowing/ Récit et Savoir (CfP, Conference, University of Paris Diderot, 23-27 June, 2014)
Narrative Matters 2014, the 7th Narrative Matters conference, will be held from 23rd June to 27th June 2014 at the University of Paris Diderot and the American University of Paris. The conference will address the theme of Narrative Knowing/Récit et Savoir. This … Continue reading
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Tagged CFP, conference, literature and medicine, medical humanities, narrative, narrative medicine, philosophy
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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
Roundtable on Science and Storytelling (University of Reading, 6 November 2013)
A public roundtable on Science and Storytelling will be held at the University of Reading to launch a new University-wide research theme on Interdisciplinary Research into the Humanities and Science. Climate change expert Professor Tim Wheeler and Dickens expert Dr … Continue reading
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Tagged BSLS, interdisciplinarity, narrative, roundtable, science and literature, Storytelling
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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
Centre for Culture & Disability Studies Seminar Series: The Voice of Disability (2013–2014 academic year, Liverpool)
The last Centre for Culture & Disability Studies (CCDS) seminar series ran at Liverpool Hope University over a number of years and culminated in Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies, an edited book that … Continue reading
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Tagged disability, disability studies, medical humanities, narrative, Voice
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