2nd Global Conference:
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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.
Final Programme
Monday 14th July
2.00pm
Opening Words
Rob Fisher
2.15pm
Keynote Address
Jon Cutler
Ars Morendi: The Lost Art of Dying
3.30pm
Tea
4.00pm
Session 1: Narratives, Fragments and Researching
the Illness Experience
Chair: Harold Schweizer
Karen Christopher
Using Patient Narrative Videos to Understand Better the Illness Experience
Jarmilla Mildorf
Narrativising the Body: Fragmentation and Unification in Jed Mercurio’s
Bodies
Sue Ziebland
DIPEx (personal experiences of health and illness) Narratives: a Resource
for Collaborative Research
5.30pm
Session Ends
6.00pm
Wine Reception
6.30pm
Dinner
8.00pm
Session 2: Practical Workshop
Bernie Warren
Balancing the Three Treasures : Staying Healthy Through Simple Breathing
Exercises
9.30pm
Session Ends
Tuesday 15th July
9.00am
Session 3: Values, Perspectives and the
Ground of Conflicts
Chair: Mitzi Waltz
Mike Rayner
Can Discourse Analysis Help to Identify Values in a National Service Framework?
Katherine Baverstock
Controlling Medicines – Moral Tales from the Australian Print Media
Philippa Spoel & Susan James
Making Sense of Ideological Conflicts in Midwifery Healthcare
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 4: Communication, Health and the
Workplace
Chair: Milorad Sokolovic
Vera Kalitzkus
Salutogenesis in General Practice: How to use the Potential of Doctor-Patient-Communication
to Promote Health
Peter Kelly
Workplace Change & the Care of the Self: Health & Wellbeing as
a Professional Duty of Care?
Bernie Warren
Bring Me Sunshine: the Effects of Clown-Doctors on the Mood and Attitudes
of Healthcare Staff
12.30pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 5a: Literature and Medical Possibilities
Chair: Caroline Ellis-Hill
Betty Bednarski
The Possibilities of Story:Jacques Ferron's "Little William"and
the Teaching of Obstetrics.
Margaret Crosby
The Medical Case as Literary Text in Paula by Isabel Allende
Jennifer Takhar
Autopsy of the Africaine in the works of Calixthe Beyala
Session 5b: Perspectives on Knowledge
and Education
Chair: Alan Petersen
Paul Elliott
Health, Illness and Hand Hygiene: A Psychosocial Perspective
Angie Hart
The Internet, HRT and Viagra: Transformations in ‘Information Seeking’
Practices?
Denise Jillons
Making Sense of Genetic Information
3.30pm
Tea
4.00pm
Concurrent Session
Session 6a: Models of the Female Body
Chair: Andrea Thain Liptak
Maya Lavie
Representations of Presence and Absence of Orgasm
Judith Macdonald
The Hidden Bits': Understanding Cervical Screening
Tania Pastrana
The Pregnant Body in Columbia - a Cultural-Sociological Analysis
Session 6b: History and the Drive to Understand
Disease
Chair: Stephen Tyreman
Jayanta Bhattacharya
Semiotics of Medical Hegemony: An Exploration into Colonial India
Susan Burns
Making Illness into Identity: Writing “Leprosy Literature”
in Modern Japan
5.30pm
Session Ends
6.30pm Dinner
8.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7a: Agency and Marginalisation
Chair: Jane Shultz
Hannele Harjunen
Obesity as a Marginalized and Liminal Experience
Wendy Stainton Rogers
Naughty but Nice! Authenticity, Agency and Action
Session 7b: Complementary Approaches to Health,
Illness and Disease
Chair: Bernie Warren
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Explaining and Managing the Body in Complementary Therapy: a Thematic
Analysis of Experiencing Chronic Illness and Complementary Treatments
Barbara Newton
Mental Journeys in Hypnosis to Alleviate Chronic Pain and Suffering
After the session ends, Barbara is willing to hold an additional session for any one wanting to experience what a hypnosis session seeks to achieve.
9.00pm
Sessions End
Wednesday 16th July
9.00am
Session 8: Disability and the Attempt to Reconstruct
the Self
Chair: Rob Fisher
Margaret Byron
An Exploration of the Words Medical Students Associate with the Term “disability”
Brett Smith
Becoming Disabled through Sport: Embodied Metaphors and the Reconstruction
of the Self
Jill Stewart
Discrimination in Access to Healthcare for Disabled People
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 9: Cancer, Advocacy, and Hope
Chair: Jan Keenan
Robin Rohrer
Childhood Cancer in Modern Society: Treatment, “Cure” and
a Model of Illness
Emma Sayers
While There’s Life…Hope and Cancer Illness
Jane Schultz
A Calculus of Advocacy: A Patient, Positionality, and Chronic Illness
12.30pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 10a: Beautiful Bodies and the Medical
Humanities
Chair: Peter Kelly
Steve Allender
Governing the Corporate Athlete: Constructing knowledge, self and power
through workplace Health
Richard Ingram
Beyond the Body Beautiful
Anna Louise Penner
Exploring the Boundaries of “Medical Humanities”
Session 10b: Art as Therapy
Chair: Betty Bednarski
Nieves Pascual
Cancer Art: Matuschka’s and Jo Spence´s Therapeutic Narratives
Harold Schweizer
The Art of Dying: Hodler's Cycle of Paintings of Valentine Gode-Darel
Diane Waller
Interactive Art Therapy as an Agent for Change Report of Research in a
Centre for the Treatment of Drug Abuse IN ROME
3.30pm
Tea
4.00pm
Concurrent Sessions
Session 11a: Metaphors and Constructions
of the Body
Chair: Emma Sayers
Marian Pitts
Understanding the positive experience: Research with People Living with
HIV/AIDS
Emma Rich
Exploring Constructions of The Body, (Ill)health and Identity in Schools:
The Case of Anorexia Nervosa
Mitzi Waltz
Metaphors of Autism, and Autism as Metaphor: An Exploration of Representation
Session 11b: Making Sense of Women’s
Health
Chair: Philippa Spoel
Marsha Hurst
Women’s Illness Narratives and the Humanization of the Health Professional
Beverly Leipert
Probing the Boundaries: Making Sense of Women's Health in Northern Canada
Andrea Thain Liptak
An Investigation of Body Image and its Relationship to Occupational Status
for Adult Women
5.30pm
Sessions End
6.30pm
Dinner
8.00pm
Session 12: Religion, Spirituality and
Well Being
Chair: Jon Cutler
Katherine Ballam
Constructions Of Health, Healing And Well Being In The New Age: A Qualitative
Study Exploring The Understanding Held By Spiritual Healers
Walter Bruchhausen
Illness as Initiation: Female Spirit Mediums as Healers in South-eastern
Tanzania
Ruth Groenhout and Kendra Hotz
Embodiment, Nursing Practice, and ReligiousFaith: A Perspective from One
Tradition
Michael Weingarten
The Sanctity of Life or The Sanctification of Life? A critical re-assessment
of Jewish medical ethics
10.00pm
Session Ends
Thursday 17th July
9.00am
Concurrent Sessions
Session 13a: Illness, Narrative and Unpredictability
Chair: Katherine Baverstock
Caroline Ellis-Hill
Traditional and Narrative Life History Approaches to Healthcare
Peter Twohig
Birth Stroies: Narratives of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Barry Taylor
Prognosis and Narrative Undecidability in the Experience of Multiple Sclerosis
Session 13b: Bodies and Legitimation
Chair: Walter Bruchhausen
Tracey Collett
Making sense of M.E./C.F.S - embodied experience, non legitimate illness,
and the moral career
Jan Keenan
Illness Behaviour in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Samantha Regan de Bere
The anatomy of anatomy: the significance of not using cadavers in medical
education
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 14: Madness, Irrationality and
Image
Chair: Beverly Leipert
Elisa Galgut
Illness and Irrationality: The Symptom as Disruption of the Concept of
Self
Nicola Goc
Mothers and Madness - The Media Representation of Postpartum Psychosis
and Infanticide
Lucia Mennel
Play fool to catch wise
12.30pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Session 15: Embodiment, Persons and Health
Care
Chair: Sue Ziebland
Faith Budge & Chris Harris
Embodiment As Behavioural Plasticity
James Marcum
Mechanized Bodies or Embodied Persons? Alternative Models of the Patient's
Body in Modern Medicine
Stephen Tyreman
Illness as the Primary Concept in Health Care: Appreciating the rôle
of Human Agency
3.30pm
Tea
4.00pm
Project Development Meeting
4.30pm
Conference Close