Pollution and Safety: Exploring the 'dirty' side of women's health
Sheffield, June 14-15, 2004
The WICH Research Group, within the School of Nursing and
Midwifery at the University of Sheffield, is hosting this conference in
response to an increasing body of research on aspects of pollution
and women's health.
The development of modern health care and birthing practices has
been associated with emphasis upon safety and clinical cleanness
along with significant changes in roles and beliefs. Yet themes of
dirt recur, for instance, in research on practices within modern
labour wards, around sexually transmitted diseases and in many
medicalised aspects of women's health care as well as in
traditional settings.
The conference aims to examine aspects of 'dirty work' as well as
'feeling dirty', exploring concepts of pollution within personal
experience, work practices and organisations. The conference
brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of
disciplines and a number of countries.
PAPERS:
Monday 14 June
Plenary session - Dr Robbie Davis-Floyd, University of Texas, USA
Paper title to be confirmed
Trudy Stevens, Thames Valley University
Paper title to be confirmed
CROSS CULTURAL ISSUES
Professor Lesley Barclay, University of Technology, Sydney,
Australia
Language and Status: the disappearing and reappearing 'midwife'
Dr Simon Dyson, De Montfort University
Genetic traits as pollution: the case of 'White English' carriers of
sickle cell/thalassaemia traits
Kuldip Bharj, University of Leeds - Midwives: defiling women!
LEAKAGE AND LABELLING
Dr Joanne Jordan, Queen's University, Belfast
Containing the leaking body: female incontinence and formal
health care
Julia Frost, University of Bristol
Leaky bodies and boundaries: Older women and early miscarriage
Hilary Piercy, University of Sheffield
"I just felt really dirty": women's responses to a diagnosis of
chlamydial infection
Tuesday 15 June
MIDWIVES AND DIRT
Plenary session - Dr Helen Callaghan, John Hunter Hospital,
Newcastle, Australia
Birth Dirt
Mary Stewart, University of the West of England
'I'm just going to wash you down': the 'dirty' vaginal examination
Ruth Deery, University of Huddersfield and Professor Mavis
Kirkham, University of Sheffield - Drained and dumped on: the
generation and accumulation of emotional toxic waste in
community midwifery
HISTORY: CONTAINING BIRTH POLLUTION
Dr Pamela J Wood and Dr Maralyn Foureur, Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand
A clean front passage: Dirt, douches and disinfectants at St
Helen's Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand, 1907-1922.
Rachel Newell, University of Dundee
The Thanksgiving of women after childbirth: a blessing in
disguise?
DAIS
Plenary session - Janet Chawla, Matrika, New Delhi, India -
Rethinking 'pollution'-Understanding 'narak'
Subadhra Rai, University of Alberta, Canada - Dais' Work in
Gujarat, India
Margaret Chesney, University of Salford - The dirt has to come
away
NOTE: On Tuesday afternoon after the conference there will be a
meeting on collaborative research on the work of traditional
midwives.
VENUE:
Holiday Inn - Sheffield West, Manchester Road, Sheffield, South
Yorkshire, UK
CONFERENCE FEES:
Full conference £230
(Includes all sessions, lunches, refreshments,
conference dinner, bed and breakfast for one night, 14 June)
Both days only £145
(Includes all sessions on 14 and 15 June, lunches and
refreshments)
14th June only £ 80
(Includes all sessions on 14 June, lunch and refreshments)
15th June only £ 80
(Includes all sessions on 15 June, lunch and refreshments)
Conference dinner 14 June, 6.30pm £ 16
BOOKINGS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 14 MAY 2004.
Registration forms and further information will be available in
January from:
Jane Flint, Conference Administrator
WICH Research Group, School of Nursing and Midwifery
University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield S3 7ND UK
Tel: +44 (0)114 222 9707
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 9712
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http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/uni/projects/wich
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