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> 5th Global Conference
> Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
>
> Wednesday 12th July - Saturday 15th July 2006
> Mansfield College, Oxford
>
> Call for Papers
> (please cross post where appropriate)
>
> This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
> project aims to explore the processes by which we
> attempt to create meaning in health, illness and
> disease. The project will examine the models and
> metaphors we use to understand our experiences of
> health and illness (looking particularly at
> perceptions of the body), and to evaluate the
> diversity of ways in which we creatively struggle
> to make sense of such experiences and express
> ourselves across a range of media.
>
> Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are
> invited on any of the following themes:
>
> * the 'significance' of health, illness and
> disease for individuals and communities; the
> factors which influence our perceptions of health
> and illness experiences
>
> * the concept of the 'well' person; the
> preoccupation with health; the attitudes of the
> 'well' to the 'ill'; perceptions of 'impairment'
> and disability; the challenges posed when
> confronted by illness and disease; the
> notion of being 'cured'; chronic illness; terminal
> illness; attitudes to death
>
> * how we perceive of and conduct ourselves through
> the experiences of health and illness; the effects
> on our sense of identity; our relationship with
> our own body; how others perceive us - family,
> friends, strangers, doctors, nurses, care
> givers
>
> * 'models' of the body; the body in pain;
> biological and medical views of illness; the
> ambiguous relationship with 'alternative' medicine
> and therapies; the doctor-patient relationship;
> the 'clinical gaze'; the body as machine and
> the role of technology; the rise of genetics;
> manipulation of the body - transplantation,
> surgery; the body as resource; 'artificial'
> bodies; the impact of body 'models' on the person
>
> * the impact of health, illness and disease on
> biology, economics, government, medicine,
> politics, social sciences; the changing
> relationship between society and medical
> development; the potential influences of gender,
> ethnicity, and class; health care, service
> providers, and public policy
>
> * the nature and role of 'metaphors' in expressing
> the experiences of health, illness and disease -
> for example, illness as 'another country'; the
> role of narrative and narrative interpretation in
> making sense of the 'journey' from health through
> illness, diagnosis, and treatment; the importance
> of story telling; dealing with chronic and
> terminal illness; the 'myths' surrounding
> health, illness and disease
>
> * the relationship between creative work and
> illness and disease: the work of artists,
> musicians, poets, writers. Illness and the
> literary imagination - studies of writers and
> literature which take health, disability, illness
> and disease as a central theme
>
> Papers are also solicited for special sessions
> which will be held in common with a second
> research project running at the same time entitled
> Making Sense Of: Dying and Death. When submitting
> your abstract, please specify clearly whether
> you would like your paper to be considered for a
> joint session presentation. Papers submitted for
> joint sessions must be explicitly
> inter-/multi-disciplinary in nature and/or show
> where the possibilities for inter-disciplinary
> research and engagement could be developed.
>
> Perspectives are sought from those engaged in;
>
> * art and art therapy, creative writing, English
> literature, history of medicine, media studies,
> the performing arts (dance, music, theatre),
> philosophy and ethics, psychology and social
> psychology, social sciences, sociology and
> socio-biology, theology and religious studies
>
> * anatomy, child care nursing, clinical
> psychology, counseling, gerontology, health
> education, health services, hospital
> administration, immunology, medical and surgical
> nursing, medicine and the medical sciences,
> pharmaceutical sciences, public health care
>
> * practitioners in health care fields - doctors,
> GP's, surgeons, health care workers, care givers,
> hospice workers
>
> Papers will be considered on any related theme.
> 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Monday
> 20th March 2006. If selected for presentation, 8
> page draft conference papers should be submitted
> by Friday 9th June 2006.
>
> Papers should be submitted to the Joint Organising
> Chairs: these should be sent as an email
> attachment in Word or WordPerfect; abstracts can
> also be submitted in the body of the email text
> rather than as an attachment.
>
> Joint Organising Chairs
>
> Prof Peter L. Twohig
> Canada Research Chair
> c/o Gorsebrook Research Institute
> Saint Mary's University
> 923 Robie Street
> Halifax, NS Canada B3H 3C3
> e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
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> Dr Rob Fisher
> Inter-Disciplinary.Net
> Priory House, 149B Wroslyn Road
> Freeland Oxfordshire, OX29 8HR
> United Kingdom
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> All papers accepted for and presented at the
> conference will be published in an ISBN eBook.
> Selected papers accepted for and presented at the
> conference will be published in a themed hard copy
> volume.
>
> The conference is sponsored by
> Inter-Disciplinary.Net as part of the 'Probing
> the Boundaries' programme of research projects. It
> aims to bring together people from different areas
> and interests to share ideas and explore various
> discussions which are innovative and exciting.
>
> For further details about the project please visit:
> http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/hid/hid.htm
>
> For further details about the conference please visit:
> http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/hid/hid5/cfp.htm
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