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Subject: 7th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
> 7th Global Conference
> Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
>
> Wednesday 9th July - Saturday 12th July 2008
> Mansfield College, Oxford
>
> Call for Papers
> 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.
>
> While this is an open call for papers, 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 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 concept of the 'well' person; 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
> * health, illness, disease human rights and social justice; health
> and citizenship
> * health, illness and disease in a globalized world; global threats
> to human health
> * health and place.
> * health and identity; the effects on our sense of identity; our
> relationship with our own body; how others perceive us - family,
> friends, strangers, doctors, nurses, care givers
> * 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 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
> * The contested nature of evidence-based health care and evidence-based
> policy
>
> Papers are also solicited for special sessions which will be held in
> common with a second research project running at the same time entitled
> Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship. 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.
>
> 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st February 2008. If
> your paper is accepted for presentation at the conference, an 8 page
> draft paper should be submitted by Friday 6th June 2008.
>
> 300 word abstracts should be submitted to both Organising Chairs;
> abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this
> order:
> author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract
>
> We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If
> you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did
> not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest,
> then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
>
> 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]
>
> Dr Rob Fisher
> Inter-Disciplinary.Net
> Priory House, Wroslyn Road, Freeland
> Oxfordshire, OX29 8HR
> United Kingdom
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> 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
>
> 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/hid7/cfp.htm
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