Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
14 to 17 July 2003, St Hilda's College, Oxford, United
Kingdom
Call For Papers
(Please cross post where appropriate)
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
also examine the models 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.
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 concept of the 'well' person; the preoccupation with
health; 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
* how we perceive of and conduct ourselves through the
experiences of health and illness; the effects on our
sense of identity; our relationship with our own body; how
others perceive us - family, friends, strangers, doctors,
nurses, care givers
* 'models' of the body; 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 impact of health, illness and disease on biology,
economics, government, medicine, politics, social
sciences; the changing relationship between society and
medical development; the potential influences of gender,
ethnicity, and class; health care, service providers, and
public policy
* 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 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.
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
Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300
word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 11th April
2003. 8 page conference papers should be submitted by
Friday 20th June 2003.
A themed volume arising from the work of the first
conference is presently in preparation. 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 one or more themed volumes.
Papers should be submitted to Dr Rob Fisher at
[log in to unmask] as an email attachment in Word
or WordPerfect; abstracts can also be submitted in the
body of the email text rather than as an attachment.
Further details and information about the "Making Sense
of:" series of projects can be found at
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso.htm
For specific information about the conference, please go
to
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/hid03cfp.htm
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