Dear Prof. Biswas, Professor Rita Charon is a physician and a professor who
incorporates stories/narrative and medicine. There are a number of others in
the US.
I will be in Kuala Lumpur in September 2007 at a qualitative methods
conference speaking on related issues. If that is close to you, perhaps you
could join us. Carolyn
Carolyn Ellis, Prof. of Communication and Sociology
Department of Communication
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CIS1040
Tampa, Fl. 33620-7800
Phone: 813-974-3626
Fax: 813-974-6817
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:58:30 -0400
From: Jeff Friedman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Prof. Biswas in Malaysia
Prof. Biswas,
Thanks for your intriguing introduction to the list-serve.
I briefly wanted to mention that there is an existing group of medical
professionals, at least in the U.S., that are engaged in "narrative
medicine." That is, they use their experiences as medical professionals
to support a wide variety of fiction/poetic writing practices.
I only know this because I crashed their conference while attending
another meeting at the same facility near Washington D.C. in 2001. I'm
not sure of their official name or organizational entity, but I thought
you might be interested...
best wishes,
Jeff Friedman
Department of Dance
Rutgers University
> Thanks to Ben and the group for having initiated this interesting
> discussion:
>
> Who am I?
> I am Rakesh Biswas presently an associate professor in Medicine, Manipal
> University, Melaka Manipal Medical College, Malaysia. I am chiefly engaged
> in medical problem solving in my hospital based practice and try to
> combine
> this activity with medical education. I have worked before this in
> teaching
> hospitals in Pokhara, Nepal and Bangalore, India.
>
> What Does Performative Social Science Mean To You?
>
> It means a new way of presenting medical information that blends so called
> unsystematic, qualitative non structured data along with dry structured
> data
> to inject meaning into it. It means living medicine to the fullest such
> that
> it becomes inseparable from day to day living. To my mind all humans are
> born physicians/healers although all may not be formally trained. All
> humans
> need to awaken the healer within them not only to heal others but also
> themselves. We are daily performers in an evolving social milieu and need
> to
> take stock of our day to day functional acting that may help to create a
> difference in the lives of people around us.
>
> How Am I Incorporating Performative Social Science into my work?
>
> I always had this uncomfortable feeling about taking lecture classes but
> being in an academic career there was no way I could escape taking them
> although I still prefer small group learning sessions. At present I feel
> I may have solved the lecture class problem to a certain extent by
> incoporating performative narratives that describe disease and stimulate
> enquiry (and prevent student somnolence).
>
> Other than this in my day to day dealing with patients I keep reminding
> myself of the performance that is taking place in the bedside, procedure
> rooms, waiting ques and the meaning that is generated. Most of us perform
> daily without an audience and while some of us would like to treasure our
> performative privacy some revel in sharing it.
>
> I wish to build a network of shared performances in day to day medical
> practice at all levels, patient, medical student, health professionals
> etc primarily to supplement tacit learning in medical practice alongside
> the
> present day dominant quantitative evidence based approach. Evidence based
> medicine supplies average data but fails to optimally satisfy
> patient/health
> professional information needs.
>
> Would love to hear and learn more from this list.
>
> rakesh
>
>
>
> Rakesh Biswas MD
> Associate professor,
> Department of Medicine,
> Melaka-Manipal Medical College
> 75150 Melaka, Malaysia
> Phone: 60-6-2925851-extn 1151 (office) and 2001 (residence)
> Fax: 60-6-2817977/60-6-2925852
> Mobile: 60-16-6434253
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.manipal.edu/melaka/departments/departments.htm
>
> On 3/28/07, marysmail <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Performative Social Science Group
>>
>> I welcome Ben's invitation to put faces to the e group and thank you for
>> this initiative. It was also interesting to have Kip's stats for who is
>> in
>> the group which was interesting.
>>
>> Putting Faces to a Mailing List & How Am I Incorporating Performative
>> Social Science into my work?
>>
>>
>> Who am I?
>> My name is Mary Smail (Mairs). I am the Director of a charity named The
>> Sesame Institute for Drama and Movement Therapy.
>> www.sesame-institute.org
>> The "Sesame" bit comes from the "Open Sesame" in the ancient Ali Baba
>> story
>> which opens a closed cave door and so reveals inner treasure. This
>> simple
>> metaphor describes how Drama and Movement works through inner symbols
>> which
>> emerge from inside through story, drama, movement and sound allowing a
>> person's narrative to be met indirectly and gradually transformed into
>> integration to the every day. I am the Myths trainer on the MA
>> Dramatherapy
>> course at Central School of Speech and Drama, London. I also am a
>> registered psychotherapist having trained in psychosynthesis.
>>
>>
>>
>> What Does Performative Social Science Mean To You?
>> Hmmm! Good question! My good friend Zoe Fitzgerald Pool, who is
>> studying
>> at Bournemouth university, introduced me to the masterclasses at the uni
>> and
>> the PSS ideas. I attended the "Visual Ways of Knowing" day and am
>> coming
>> to the next one.
>>
>> Reading the emails that go round this group and coming on the day has
>> been
>> like a light going on. I have long been looking for a way to "assess"
>> my
>> therapy work and have been deeply frustrated by the options available -
>> my
>> question has been - how do I measure the invisible - how can you weigh
>> soul
>> precepts? I think I am on the edge of finding ways through performance.
>>
>>
>> How Am I Incorporating Performative Social Science into my work?
>> That is the question for the future of my work. Watch this space!
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing from others and thanks again to Thomas for
>> setting this up.
>>
>> Mairs Smail
>>
>
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