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Dear Mary

Thank you so much for the copies of the photo. I apologise for giving  
you so much trouble. I now have a new photo  storage programme on my  
computer which numbers everything beautifully, even puts from 1 to 5  
stars on the storage version if required, and I am sorry it was not  
on the market in time for you.    How urgently do you need the black  
and white conversions? The new edition of photoshop is bursting on to  
the market on 20th April, and this ill make black and white  
conversion to the highest standard an absolute doddle, which it is  
not on the old programme.  So I am tempted to wait for this. But if  
any are urgent, please let me know, and I will do them at once.

I haven't written  back to performksocsci.  I am not sure of the  
precise meaning of  performative social  science. "Performative" is  
not in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, at least not my edition.  It  
sounds a bit like jargon to me   I saw something written about  
doctors using poetry and narrative, but no explanation.  I like Zoe's  
poem -  best so far -  she wants to be creative rather than just clever.

Much love

Camilla





On Apr 4, 2007, at 10:05, marysmail wrote:

> Yes its a dream.  But from the dream is birthed the reality.
>
> Dream on Zoe and congratulations.
>
> Mairs
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Vooght"  
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 9:13 AM
> Subject: Re: What Inspires me about performative social science...
>
>
> Zoë...
>
> It's a vision
> to inspire
> to nourish
> to energise
>
> thank you
>
> Elizabeth
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zo ë Fitzgerald-Pool"  
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 10:06 PM
> Subject: What Inspires me about performative social science...
>
>
> I am interested
> in approaches to enquiry that
> embody hearts and souls
> not numbers,
> sizes or
> units of meaning.
> I am interested in
> both-and
> not either-or.
> As a psychotherapist,
> working with people
> within relationship,
> my living intention
> is to seek to
> alleviate suffering.
> I am interested
> in connections
> between living souls
> as breathing… walking… dancing… singing…loving…
> laughing…living...dying...
> .... ... ... ... ...
> multidimensional beings.
>
> I will
> No longer
> pay homage to
> King Arcane or the
> Emperor Hegemony
> nor submit to
> their patriarchal armies
> in their
> own-most-potentiality-for-being-very-very-dead.
> The imperial discourse has withered.
> His harvest is in.
> Witness now the bitter fruits
> of the Grand Patriarch.
> His authority begat
> Defend and attack
> Win or Lose
> kill or be killed
> Witness now
> the logos world of the One God
> so long fashioned
> in the image of Man
> Witness now
> his logical harvest
> his harvest of knives
> as force begets force
> violence
> violence
> now
> children murder
> children
> die
> in their homes
> on the streets
> Everywhere
> Witness our world dying now
> Such a common occurrence...
> it is no longer news
> Witness now that
> peer reviews
> of  RCTs
> the number of papers in RAEs
> the quants
> the quals
> meta-syntheses
> and
> …all the king’s horses
> and all the king’s men
> ...and
> all the prozac in the
> kingdom….
> couldn’t put
> humpty together again.
> (His 10 year old brother had stabbed him and he bled to death on the
> pavement)
>
> I am interested
> now…
> in living breath for the future.
> I am interested
> in joining with others
> whose imaginations will
> generate new energies
> to transform our world
> our realities
> our relationships
> into a better place
> for all of us
> before it is
> too late.
>
> I am interested in creating
> new realities,
> new consciousness(es)
> I am interested in
> better communication
> not more information.
> I am interested in
> how
> we can
> develop creative ways
> of
> both communicating
> and understanding
> and celebrating
> and living
> differences.
> I am interested in dedicating
> attention and intention
> to developing a new equality
> of both thinking and understanding
> between male and female as the
> beginning of all differences
> I am interested in equalities not hierarchies.
> I am interested in developing new languages
> new forms…
> that can transform our lives…
> our living…
> our breathing…
> our souls…
> our ethics…
> our moralities…
> our spiritualities…
> new languages that are
> not
> any longer dependent upon the
> possessive
> patriarchal binary logic of forms
> that began long ago
> with the logos of the One
> (who-would-be-obeyed-in-his-ownmost-potentiality-for-believing- 
> himself-to-be-more-important-than-any-other)
> I am inspired by the brave pioneers
> who inspire hope for
> performing transformations
> together
> and
> who refuse to be invalidated by those
> Grand Narrators and Counters
> of the Units of Death....
>
> Is this a Utopian dream?
>
> Slainte
> Zoë Fitzgerald-Pool
>
>
>> From: Liz Done <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Performative Social Science <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: PERFORMSOCSCI Digest - 28 Mar 2007 to 30 Mar 2007  
>> (#2007-36)
>> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 06:21:41 +0100
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>   -----Original Message-----
>>   From: Performative Social Science  
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
>> Behalf Of Rakesh Biswas
>>   Sent: 01 April 2007 05:48
>>   To: [log in to unmask]
>>   Subject: Re: PERFORMSOCSCI Digest - 28 Mar 2007 to 30 Mar 2007  
>> (#2007-36)
>>
>>
>>   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
>>     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/autoethnography/
>>
>>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: Performative Social Science [mailto:  
>> [log in to unmask]]
>> On
>>     Behalf Of PERFORMSOCSCI automatic digest system
>>     Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:00 PM
>>     To: [log in to unmask]
>>     Subject: PERFORMSOCSCI Digest - 28 Mar 2007 to 30 Mar 2007  
>> (#2007-36)
>>
>>     There is 1 message totalling 160 lines in this issue.
>>
>>     Topics of the day:
>>
>>     1. Prof. Biswas in Malaysia
>>
>>      
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> -
>>
>>     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
>>     >>
>>     >
>>
>>     ------------------------------
>>
>>     End of PERFORMSOCSCI Digest - 28 Mar 2007 to 30 Mar 2007  
>> (#2007-36)
>>      
>> *******************************************************************
>>
>>
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