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3rd Global Conference
Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease
Monday 5th July - Friday 9th July 2004
St Catherine's College, Oxford
Conference Programme, Abstract & Papers
The final 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 (v.4)
Monday 5th July
from 12.30pm
Registration
2.00pm
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher
2.15pm
Keynote Address
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease: The Case
of Diabetes
Peter L. Twohig
3.15pm
Tea
3.45pm
Session 1: Wrestling with Disease, Illness and Culture
Chair: Bernie Warren
Jonathan Simon
The Ontology of Disease
Vera Kalitzkus
Biomedicine and Culture: The Cultural Basis of Modern Medicine and its
Implications for Practice
James Davies
Illness Aetiologies
5.15pm
Notices and Announcements
Wine Reception
6.00pm
Session 2: Art and Health, Illness and Disease
Chair: Vera Kalitzkus
Caryl Sibbett
Liminality: Living and Practising at the Threshold
Norma Daykin
The Role of Music in Qualitative Inquiry
7.00pm
Dinner
Tuesday 6th July
9.00am
Session 3: Bodies, Minds and Devices
Chair: Peter Twohig
Griet Scheldeman
Insulin Pumps Incorporated in Young People’s Bodies and Lives:
Existential Dynamics of a Medical Device
Michael Calnan
Negotiating the Boundaries between Physical and Mental Health Problems:
Patient and Practitioner Perspectives on Upper Limb Pain
Bindhulakshmi
When the Diagnosed Talk: Ethnographic Narratives on Mental Illness
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 4: Making Choices: Three Views
Chair: Glenys Godlovitch
Claire Balmer
The Information Requirements of People With Cancer: Where to After the ‘Patient
Information Leaflet’?
Philippa Spoel
Exploring the Meaning and Ethics of “Informed Choice” in
Midwifery Healthcare
Samantha Gottlieb
Challenging Notions of Risk and Rational Choice in Public Health: An
Ethnographic Perspective on Interventions and Families
12.45pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Session 5: Constructions of Illness and Disease
Chair: Peter Colosi
Matthew McGrattan
The Social Construction of Disease: Why Homosexuality isn’t like
Cancer
Aaron Goodfellow
Public health, STDs and Oral Histories of Care
Kath MacDonald
Getting By: The Lived Experience of Waiting for Transplants
3.30pm
Tea
4.00pm
Session 6: Special Event - The Physician Writing: A Literary Reading
Betty Bednarski
5.00pm
Sessions End
7.00pm
Dinner
Wednesday 7th July
9.00am
Session 7: Suffering, Hope, Prognosis
Chair: Kath MacDonald
Peter Colosi
John Paul II and Christian Personalism vs Peter Singer and Utilitarianism:
Two Radically Opposed Conceptions of the Nature and Meaning of Suffering
Stephen Neff
The Inspiration of Hope
Glenys Godlovitch
Mental Health, Refusing Mediciation: Rethinking Competence
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 8: Metaphor, Grief and Living with Disease
Chair: Aaron Goodfellow
Susan Speraw
Healing Through Metaphor and Private Rituals in Response to Miscarriage:
4 Families
Betania Allen
The Experience and Meaning of a Newly Chronic Disease in a Middle-Income
Country: An Ethnographic Study on Mexican Women Living with HIV/AIDS
Tomasz Spiewak
St. Wyspianski (1869-1907): The Last Self-Portrait of the Syphilitic
Artist
12.45pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Session 9: Health, Illness and Disease in Historical Perspective
Chair: Bindhulakshmi
Anne Pierce
1918 Influenza Epidemic
Jayanta Bhattacharya
Anatomical Knowledge and the Anatomy of Medical Knowledge: Some (Post)colonial
Indian Inquiries
Ian Tucker
The ‘Body’ in Psychopathology
3.30pm
Coffee
4.00pm
Session 10
Special Event - Sit, Breathe and Smile
Bernie Warren
5.00pm
Sessions End
7.00pm
Dinner
Thursday 8th July
9.00am
Session 11: Constructing and De-constructing
Women’s Bodies
Chair: Philippa Spoel
Katherine Angel
Green Fingers or Pink
Viagra: Female Sexual Dysfunction and Medicalisation in Contemporary
Medical Discourse
Hannele Harjunen & Emma Rich
“Normal gone bad” – Exploring Discourses of Health and
the Female Body in Schools
Dóradjamila Mester
The Construction of Women’s Subjectivity Through Gynecological
Experiences
10.30am
Coffee
11.00am
Session 12: Consultation and Approaches
Chair: Caryl Sibbett
Peter Schulz
Prognosis versus Diagnosis. Two Different Categories Underlying Doctor-Patient
Consultation
Ioana Todor
Making Sense of Depression: A Psycholinguistic Approach
12.00am
Development Meeting
12.30pm
Lunch
Conference Close