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Dear all,
Unfortunately this event has had to be cancelled due to ill health. We
apologise for any disappointment and/or inconvenience this may cause. If
possible, the seminar will be rescheduled, and you will be notified if so.
Kind regards,
Natalie Warner
--On 14 May 2007 11:34 +0100 CSISP <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> REMINDER!
>
> The invention of health: creativity and the medical task
>
> a CSISP seminar
>
> Thursday 17 May
> 4.30-6.30 | Warmington Tower, Room 1204
> with Monica Greco | Sociology Department, Goldsmiths
>
>
> In recent years, an increasing number of medical educators have
> explicitly thematised the relevance of 'creativity' to the medical task.
> While this movement has gone some way towards addressing the relational
> dimensions of health, illness and medicine, it has tended to leave
> unchallenged a number of fundamental ontological assumptions. On the
> other hand, advocates of a 'successor paradigm' in medicine have
> explicitly addressed the need for a transformed understanding of the
> material substrate of health and disease processes, in such a way as to
> suggest that matter itself can be both creative and subjective.
> Typically, however, they have stopped short of considering relational
> constraints at the level of interpersonal and societal interaction. This
> paper will argue that evidence suggesting a link between health, illness,
> and creative process is abundant and yet 'anecdotal'. The anecdotal
> character of such evidence is not accidental, but must rather be regarded
> as symptomatic of the implications that a processual approach to the
> medical task would have to envisage as a specific challenge.
>
>
> Monica Greco joined Sociology at Goldsmiths in 1996 after completing her
> doctorate at the European University Institute (Florence). She has a long
> standing interest in how mind/body dualism has been problematised within
> medical discourse. Her book Illness as a Work of Thought (Routledge,
> 1998) offers a genealogical analysis of psychosomatic medicine. More
> recently, her work has turned to the emergence of medical humanities as a
> space of problematisation. She has published articles in Economy and
> Society, Health:, Theory, Culture and Society and Social Science and
> Medicine.
>
>
> Natalie Warner
> Research Administrator
> Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP)
> Department of Sociology
> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross
> London
> SE14 6NW
> Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7731
> Fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7713
> Web: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp
Natalie Warner
Research Administrator
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP)
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross
London
SE14 6NW
Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7731
Fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7713
Web: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp
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