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9th Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
Saturday 11th September Monday 13th September 2010
Oriel 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. In previous years, this
interdisciplinary conference has attracted
delegates from around the world, including
practising clinicians, academics from a variety of
disciplines, and persons involved in
community-based organizations.
At the beginning of the 21st Century, the world is
facing a plethora of health problems, some of
which could not have easily been predicted as
recently as the last two decades of the last
century. Globally, there are critical conditions
brought about by war, persecution, mass
migration, famine and gross social inequalities.
In the 'developed societies', a combination of
demographic and life-style factors is
putting increasing pressures on health-care
facilities that are in danger of fragmentation and
under-funding. For its part, the general
public is presenting practitioners with a
challenging contradiction: on the one hand, people
live longer than ever before and are, in some
respects, healthier but, on the other, the
burden of chronic disease and 'un-wellness' is
increasing, and so is the concern with
health-related matters on the part of the 'man and
woman in the street'. The wellness/illness profile
of to-day's communities renders prevention as
important as therapy which, in turn, implies
that prevailing social attitudes have a key role
in the dynamics of health, illness and health care
as an inter-related system.
The 2010 conference is extending a call for papers
on any aspect of this complex set of
circumstances. Because this is a very broad brief,
we particularly welcome papers that address the
following themes:
I. Health, Illness and Disease in a Globalised
World
* Health, human rights and social justice
* Health, disease and citizenship
* Health and place
* Diasporas and disease
* Health, disease and international medicine
II. Systemic Problems in Health Care
* Managerial vs clinical imperatives
* Professional hierarchies and internal conflicts
* The speed of innovation
* The contested nature of evidence-based medicine
* Patients or clients?
III. Beliefs about Health
* Positive thinking, tranquillity and mindfulness
* Faith in diets (including water), eg vegan,
low-carb, natural/organic
* Exercise, breathing
* Belief vs practice
* Fears: allergies, sensitivities, negative
thinking, stress, contamination
* Puritanism and health beliefs
* 'Healthism' as the new religion
IV. Attitudes to Medicine/Healing
* Medicine as science
* Alternative/non-western approaches: evidence or
ideology?
* Mistrust in 'the system' ('medicine/science
cannot explain everything')
* Mistrust in the practitioners (lack of
knowledge/competence/professionalism)
* Risk and trust in the medical encounter
(including hospital stays)
* Litigation in the context of health care; the
underlying complexities
V. Purveyors of information
* The media and the popularity of medical programs
* Personal networks
* Dr C. O. M. Puter the role of the Internet
* Reflexivity in the system how does public
information feed back into health care?
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
26th March 2010. If your paper is accepted for
presentation at the conference, an 8 page
draft paper should be submitted by Friday 13th
August 2010.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to both
Organising Chairs with the subject line HID9
Abstract Submission; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
author(s), affiliation, email address, title of
abstract, body of abstract
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using footnotes and any special formatting,
characters or emphasis (such as bold,
italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and
answer 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
Maria Vaccarella
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Kings College, London
United Kingdom
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, counselling, 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 this
conference will be eligible for publication in an
ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited
for development for publication in a themed hard
copy dialogic volume(s) 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/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/health-illness-and-disease/
For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/health-illness-and-disease/call-for-papers/
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