Conference Programme and Abstracts
The draft programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Draft Programme - 17/06/02

Monday 24th June

Keynote Address - ‘Treating Wellness': How Clown-Doctors Help to Humanise Healthcare and Promote Good Health
Professor Bernie Warren

Tea

Session 1: Suffering, Meaning & Literature
Rob Fisher - Redeeming the Memory of Suffering
Susanna Gilbert - "Blood Brother": Care-taking and the Fear of Falling in Paul Monette's Borrowed Time
Harold Schweizer - The Question of Meaning in Suffering

Wine Reception

Dinner

Session 2: Workshop: Healing Pieces: Creating Performance through Physical Awareness
Robin Gordon

Session 3a: Religion, Spirituality and Illness
Catherine Garrett - Making Sense of Healing: Meaning and Spirituality in Narratives of Chronic Illness
John Swinton - Making Sense of Dementia: Spiritual Perspectives on Forgotten Worlds
Barbra Wall - ‘Sacred Moments': the Meaning of Sickness, Healing and & Death in the Catholic Tradition

Session 3b: Doctors, Bodies and Medicines
Thomas Acton & Jiang Xue-Quing - Mainstream & Alternative Marketing Strategies for Traditional Chinese Medicine in London
Margie Pignataro - PHARMAKON and Past, Present, and Future Doctors
Eeva Sointu - Glowing Health is Flowing Health: Exploring Ideas of Well-being in Alternative and Complementary Health Practices

Coffee

Session 4a: Narratives, Resonance & Identity
Margaret Byrne - Echoes of Heartsongs: the Use and Power of Resonance in Health and Healing
Marisa Coelho - Narrative, Illness and Personal Identity
Sofie Vandamme - Myths and Metaphors of Illness Reconsidered

Session 4b: Health, Wellness & Enjoyment
Gwen Bingle - Under the Sign of the Body: Making Sense of Wellness in Germany
Norma Daykin - Creativity, Work and Health; the Experiences of Musicians in Self-Regulated Employment
Tatiana Ryba - ‘Keep the Feeling as Long as it'll Last' or ‘Cartwheels on Ice'; Phenomenology of Skating Enjoyment

Lunch

Session 5a: Acting, Entertaining, Performing
Azra Francis - Heuristic Acting as Performing Art Therapy
Emma Govan - Entertaining Illness
Mary Richards - Ron Athey, AIDS and the Politics of Pain

Session 5b: The Language of Bodies
Jayanta Bhattacharya - The Body: Epistemological and Colonial Encounters in India
Marjorie Levine-Clark - It ‘Very Nearly Killed Her': Poor Women and Cultures of Healing in Early Victorian London
Louise Penner - Florence Nightingale's Sensational Narratives of Contagion and Contamination

Coffee

Session 6a: Ethics, Research & Chronic Pain
Jane Appleton - Ethical Issues in Undertaking Narrative Research in Palliative Care
Kay Price - Talking the Talk - Chronic Pain
Susan Mills - The Paradox of Health within Illness: Perspectives on Living Well with Chronic Conditions

Session 6b: Language, Perspective & Practice
Karen Henwood - Male Embodiment and the Transition to Fatherhood: A Study in Healthy Citizenship?
Colleen Heenan - ‘Why Spend your Life Fighting when Momentarily it's Good?'
James Swan Tuite - Alcoholism, Addiction and the Metaxu of Affliction

Dinner

Session 7a: Workshop: A World Without Bodies
Sharon Snyder & David Mitchell

Session 7b: Workshop: The Performance of Doctoring
Susan Massad

Wednesday 26th June

Session 8a: Disability, Scholarship and Inclusion
David Mitchell & Sharon Snyder - Out of the Ashes of Eugenics: The Making of a Disability Minority in the US 1848-1930
Gloria Onyeoziri-Miller - The Scholarship of Blindness and the Blindness of Scholarship

Session 8b: Defining Parameters & the Contexts of Practice
Jarmilla Mildorf - Narratives of Domestic Violence Cases: GP's Defining their Professional Role
Peter Twohig - Evidence, Identity and Family Practice; A Qualitative Inquiry

Coffee

Session 9: Making Sense of Medicine
Betty Bednarski - Writing to ‘Make Sense' of Medicine: the Case of Physician-Writer, Jacques Ferron
Bob Leckridge - The Art of Medicine and the Science of Medicine
Susan Massad - What do Health Care Professionals Need? They Need to Philosophize

Lunch

Session 10: Broken Bodies and the Art of Caring
Celia Bandman - The Medical Humanist: A Pilot Programme in the Cancer Center Setting
Vera Kalitzkus - Life ‘In Limbo': Donor Families, Organ Recipients and their Experience in Germany
Emma Sayers - Angst Among Cancer Survivors

Tea

Brief Development Meeting
a) e-mail discussion group
b) publication process
c) e-journal
d) next conference
e) any other items

Conference Closes