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The Medicalization of Old Age (Participatory Event, Lancaster, 28 November 2013)
Lancaster University Centre for Ageing Research Ageing and Health: Breaking Down Boundaries The Medicalization of Old Age Thursday November 28th 2013 This participatory event engages with Keynote speakers: Paul Higgs, Professor of the Sociology of Ageing, University College London Dr Joao Pedro … Continue reading
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Tagged ageing, Health Policy, interdisciplinary, medical humanities, medicalisation, old age, participatory, policy
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Winter Fires
Mike White writes: No-one understands participatory arts practice better than Francois Matarasso and he has just published a pocket-size reflection on art and agency in old age entitled Winter Fires. This slim volume is cogent, congenially illustrated and available free … Continue reading
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Tagged arts in health, Francois Matarasso, old age, participatory arts
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What is Old Age? New perspectives from the humanities (CfP, Conference, Warwick, 23 Feb 2013)
Abstracts are invited from scholars from any area of the humanities, for this one-day interdisciplinary conference, taking place on Saturday 23 February 2013 at the University of Warwick. This one-day conference will draw on the expertise of scholars from across the humanities to offer new … Continue reading
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Tagged gerontology, humanities, interdisciplinary, old age
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What Kind of Old Would You Like to Be? Mike White on Art and Older People
“What kind of old would you like to be? Exergetic, enthusiastic and vibrant, or lonely, reclusive and bored? We want to be the best, but how? The answer is art, says Mike White, a senior research fellow in arts in … Continue reading
Pain and Old Age: Three Centuries of Suffering in Silence? (CFP, Conference, Birkbeck, 27 October 2012)
PAIN AND OLD AGE: THREE CENTURIES OF SUFFERING IN SILENCE? Public Conference: 27 October 2012 Call for Papers The Birkbeck Pain Project and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. Organised by Visiting Fellow to the Birkbeck Pain … Continue reading
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Tagged ageing, bodies, conference, history of medicine, medical humanities, old age, pain
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Pain and Old Age: 3 Centuries of Suffering in Silence? (CFP, Conference, Birkbeck, October 2012)
PAIN AND OLD AGE: 3 CENTURIES OF SUFFERING IN SILENCE? Public Conference: 27 October 2012 The Birkbeck Pain Project and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Birkbeck College, University Organised by Visiting Fellow to the Birkbeck Pain Project, Prof. Lynn … Continue reading
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Tagged CFP, conference, history of medicine, medical humanities, medicine, old age, pain
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