NARRATIVE MEDICINE IN NEW YORK
May, 2003
Friday and Saturday, May 2-3: NARRATIVE MEDICINE
A colloquium presented by the Program in Narrative Medicine of Columbia
University and the Center for the Study of Science and Religion of Columbia
University
Sunday, May 4: NARRATIVE COMPETENCE AS A CLINICAL SKILL
A workshop on teaching narrative competence to clinicians
presented by the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society, Stony
Brook University School of Medicine, and the SUNY Conversations in the
Disciplines Program.
DAYS 1 & 2:
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NARRATIVE MEDICINE: A COLLOQIUM
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Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3, 2003
Columbia University
Kellogg Conference Center
International Affairs Building, 15th Floor
420 W. 118th Street
New York, NY
The care of the sick often unfolds without attention to narrative, yet
patients enact the urgency of telling of illness and the necessity of being
heard. Medicine is learning to develop the narrative competence to
recognize, absorb, interpret, and honor the narratives of patients and
their care-givers. Narrative medicine, or medicine practiced with narrative
competence, can understand the complexities of stories, their agents, and
their listeners, thereby growing in empathy, ethicality, and effectiveness.
The colloquium, Narrative Medicine, will convene practitioners of
literature and medicine with scholars of narratology, autobiographical
studies, and trauma studies to probe the consequences of adopting narrative
practices and literary training in health care. The more deeply we
understand how these approaches work, the more powerfully will we be able
to deploy them.
PROGRAM:
Friday, May 2:
Welcome and Introduction
Rita Charon, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University
Writing and Healing
Charles Anderson, Professor of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Arkansas
Reconstructing Illness
Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Professor of Humanities, Penn State College of
Medicine
Memory, the Body, and the Self
James Olney, Voorhies Professor of English, Louisiana State University
The Clinical Imagination
Abraham Verghese, Professor of Medicine, University of Texas
Saturday, May 3:
Illness and Narrative Identity
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Illness Is Biocultural
David Morris, University Professor, University of Virginia
The Consequences of Witnessing Trauma
Dominick LaCapra, Professor of History, Cornell University
There is no fee for conference attendance, but advance registration is
required. To register, contact the Program in Narrative Medicine at
212-305-4975 or [log in to unmask]
The following hotels will extend a conference discount to delegates:
· Mayflower Hotel, 15 Central Park West at 61st St., 212-865-0600,
www.mayflowerhotel.com
· Hotel Beacon, 2130 Broadway at 75th St., 212-787-1100 x.623,
www.beaconhotel.com
· The Lucerne, 201 79th St. at Broadway/Amsterdam, 212-875-1000 x80,
www.newyorkhotel.com
· Hotel Newton, 2528 Broadway at 96th St., 212-678-6500,
www.newyorkhotel.com
Please specify 'Columbia University Narrative Medicine Conference' when you
book. Please identify yourself as a participant in the Narrative Medicine
Colloquium of Columbia University when making your reservations. For any
questions or information, please contact Kirsten Denker at 212-305-4975.
Sponsored by
the John Templeton Foundation and the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels
Foundation
For more information about the Program in Narrative Medicine, please visit:
http://www.narrativemedicine.org
DAY 3:
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NARRATIVE COMPETENCE AS A CLINICAL SKILL
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Sunday, May 4th, 2003
Stony Brook Manhattan, 401 Park Avenue South, New York, New York
What is the role of narrative in health care? To what extent are health
care professionals trained in narrative competence, the ability to
recognize, understand, and treat narratives, and to make use of narrative
epistemologies (thinking or knowing with stories) in clinical practice and
other aspects of their professional work?
The workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and
educators to explore the proposition that narrative competence is a skill
essential to clinical practice. Our work will have a double focus: the
theoretical and methodological aspects of the proposition, and its
application in the clinic and in the education of clinicians.
Participants are encouraged to come prepared to contribute to a
conversation that builds on the work presented by our keynote speakers,
Rita Charon and David Morris, and produces new frameworks for original
scholarly research. We will circulate a reading list of some of the major
published material in the area to registrants in advance of the symposium.
Apart from the two keynote addresses, one at the beginning of the day and
one after lunch, and a final report back / planning session, the symposium
will consist of small-group seminar-type sessions, organized by topic once
we have established the participants' particular interests and areas of
expertise.
PROGRAM
Continental breakfast
"Non-Narrative Narrative: Illness, the Unsaid, and the Unsayable"
David Morris, University Professor, University of Virginia
Workshop Session 1: Theories: Narrative, Illness, and Health Care
Working Lunch
"How to Teach Narrative Competence to Clinicians: Nuts, Bolts, and Texts"
Rita Charon,
Seminar Session 2: Practice: Teaching Narrative Competence to Clinicians
Evening: All symposium participants are invited to a reception and reading
celebrating the spring 2003 issue of the Bellevue Literary Review, a short
walk away, in the Bellevue Rotunda, First Avenue at 27th Street.
Sponsored by the Conversations in the Disciplines Program of the State
University of New York, the Office of Continuing Medical Education/School
of Medicine, and the Continuing Education Program/ School of Nursing at
Stony Brook University.
For more information, including registration forms and hotel details, go to
our website:
http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/prevmed/mns/cid/cidindex.html
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Catherine Belling, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine
Associate Director, Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society
HSC L3-086
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Stony Brook, New York 11794-8036
Tel: 631- 444-8029 Fax: 631-444-9744
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