Are you familiar with papers by Macnaughton, R.J.? She is based at the
Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (University of Durham,
U.K.) and has written about incorporating patient narrative into medical
practice. A list of publications and contact details can be found at:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/cahhm/ Liz Done
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From: Performative Social Science [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
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Sent: 01 April 2007 05:48
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Thanks Carolyn and Jeff,
I am aware of Rita Charon's inspiring work (from Annals of Internal
Medicine and NEJM) and have also come across other various narrative
interested physicians in journals. I haven't really been able to discuss
with them how to incorporate it in our day to day medical decision making
(although the journal articles are definitely an inspiration). I wish more
narrative interested physicians were a part of this and the autoethnography
list.
I too have submitted a paper for the KL september Qualitative conference
and hope to meet you (Carolyn) there. I was presenting a paper on a
qualitative approach to EBM in the Apr 20 conference on Oualitative Inquiry
in Illinois (which I guess you too shall be attending) but have asked my
friend and co-author to present it instead.
Hope to keep learning from you on how to utilize the daily
performance-narratives (that I see on my ward rounds and outpatient clinic)
in medical decision making to continue helping our patients.
At the moment I am writing a project for answering informational needs in
Malaysian diabetics utilizing mobile phones and it has a quantitative and a
strong qualitative component (which aims to build an online learning
community of diabetics utilizing web based thought partner matching after
automated or manual matching of their E-logs).
Do let me know if anyone is working on similar lines.
rakesh
On 4/1/07, Carolyn Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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
To join our autoethnography list, subscribe at
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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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