[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease (UK) (3/20/06; 7/12/06-7/15/06)

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From: Dr Rob Fisher <rf@inter-disciplinary.net>



Deadline extended:

5th Global Conference
Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease

Wednesday 12th July - Saturday 15th July 2006
Mansfield College, Oxford

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 examine the models and metaphors 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

Papers are also solicited for special sessions which will be held in 
common with
a second research project running at the same time entitled Making Sense Of:
Dying and Death. When submitting your abstract, please specify clearly 
whether
you would like your paper to be considered for a joint session presentation.
Papers submitted for joint sessions must be explicitly 
inter-/multi-disciplinary
in nature and/or show where the possibilities for inter-disciplinary 
research
and engagement could be developed.

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 Monday 20th March 2006. If selected for presentation, 8 
page draft
conference papers should be submitted by Friday 9th June 2006.

Papers should be submitted to the Joint Organising Chairs: these should 
be sent
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.

Joint Organising Chairs

Prof Peter L. Twohig
Canada Research Chair
c/o Gorsebrook Research Institute
Saint Mary's University
923 Robie Street
Halifax, NS Canada B3H 3C3

e-mail:  Peter.Twohig@SMU.CA


Dr Rob Fisher
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Priory House, 149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland Oxfordshire, OX29 8HR
United Kingdom

e-mail: rf@inter-disciplinary.net


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 a themed hard copy volume.

The conference is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net as part of the 
'Probing
the Boundaries' programme of research projects. It aims to bring 
together people
from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various
discussions which are innovative and exciting.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/hid/hid.htm

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/mso/hid/hid5/cfp.htm



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