Monday 4th July - Thursday 7th July 2005
Mansfield College, Oxford

Conference Programme, Abstracts & Papers

The 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 (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.1.7)

Monday 4th July 2005
from 12.30
Registration

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and Peter Twohig

14.15
Session 1: Metaphor, Narrative and the Meaning of Experience
Chair: Peter Twohig

Jasna Schwind
Finding Meaning through Metaphors: Following a Narrative Thread from Experience to Research to Classroom

Mary Didelot & Lisa Hollingsworth
Illness: The Redefinition of Self and Relationships

Teresa Gibert
Metaphors of Health, Illness and Disease in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction

15.45
Tea

16.15
Session 2: Identity, InterSubjectivity and Illness
Chair: Elisabeth Gedge

Amy Rutstein-Riley
Shifting Views of Self: Impact of Chronic Illness Diagnosis on Young Emerging Adult Women

Marlene Benjamin
Cancer & the Idea of the Self: Philosophy, Memoir, and Medical Trauma

Suzana Raluca Burlea
Suffering: Intersubjective and Narrative Experience

17.45
Notices Announcements

Wine Reception

Tuesday 5th July 2005

09.00
Session 3: Diagnosis and Dialogue
Chair: Stuart Oultram

Imre Bard
Methods of Diagnosis: The Path Towards Dialogue

Stella Howden, M Nicol, D Martin and D Jones
Living with Chronic Pain but not Talking about it: The Significance of Having the Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Robert Murphy
Grasping Smoke: An Exploration of Health Care Professionals’ Perceptions of the Concept of Spirituality as Applied to Palliative Care

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Patient Autonomy, Social Justice and Social Systems
Chair: Betty Bednarski

Laura K. Kerr
Disease in the Information Age

Sebastian Bechmann
The Discursive Production of ‘Solidarity’, ‘Health’ and ‘the Patient’ – The Case of the German Health Care System

Alison Roberts Miculan, Lisa Schwartz
On My Own?: Where Autonomy Ends and Justice Begins

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 5A: Body and Embodiment
Chair: Louise Penner

Naomi Adelson
The Fit of Health: The Embodiment of an Ideal and its Implications

Magdalena Gajewska
Human Body – A Social Track From Health to Illness and From Illness to Health

Iain Brassington
Some Thoughts on Physicians and Metaphysicians

Gillian Bendelow
Beyond Biomedicalisation: Mind/Body Models of Health & Illness

Session 5B: Health, Medicine and Media
Chair: Valerie Raoul

Inci Cinarli, Elgiz Yilmaz
The Media Manufacturing The Sense of Health, Illness and Disease: Health Coverage in Turkish Newspapers

Joe Grixti
Desirability and Its Discontents: Young People’s Responses to Media Images of Health, Beauty and Physical Perfection

Peter Washer
Representations of “Newly Emerging” Infectious Diseases in the British Newspapers

Donavan Rocher
Alcoholism: ‘Correction’ and the Changing Notions of ‘Recovery’

16.00
Tea

16.30
Session 6A: Donations Welcome
Chair: Mary Didelot

Susan Rogers
Selling the Social as Object: Online Donor Banking and the Standardization of Semen

Peter Schulz
How People Perceive Differently Organ Donation. The Case of Switzerland

Session 6B: The Social and Political Contexts of Health (1)
Chair: Robert Murphy

Ed Cohen
A Body Worth Defending: “Immunity” and the Bio-Politics of Bio-Medicine

Gloria Likupe, Laurie Lynn Kelly and Joyce Abonyo
Recruitment of African Nurses in the UK

17.30
Sessions End

Wednesday 6th July 2005

09.00
Session 7: Debating Disability
Chair: Amy Rutstein-Riley

Elisabeth Gedge
Genetics, Disability and Symbolic Harm

Valerie Raoul
Making Sense of Disease, Disability, and Trauma: Normative and Disruptive Stories

Stuart Oultram
Disability, Reproductive Interventions and Moral Consistency

10.30
Tea

11.00
Session 8: The Myths and Metaphors of Illness (1)
Chair: Lisa Hollingsworth

Louise Penner
Medicine and the Individual Patient in Nineteenth-Century British Realism

Christine Leiren Mower
Wasting Women and Sound Citizens: Health and Debility as National Identity in Turn-of-the-Twentieth Century US Writing

Betty Bednarski
Imagining the Doctor: Reflecting on the Medical Fictions of Jacques Ferron

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 9A: The Social and Political Contexts of Health (2)
Chair: Sebastian Bechman

Mari Nicholson-Preuss
A Jefferson Davis Problem: The 1958 Staphylococcus Aureus Epidemic at Houston’s Public Charity Hospital

Harris Ali and Roxana Salehi
The Social and Political Context of Disease Outbreaks: The Case of SARS in Toronto

Linsey McGoey
Debates over the Safety of SSRI

Session 9B: Communication in the Clinical Encounter
Chair: Laura Kerr

Christina Hahn
Botox Facial Treatment: Are There Specific Influences on Women’s Communication Process?

Ashley Morgan
Evaluating Risk and Pain in Elective Cosmetic Surgery

Paul James
Understanding the Phenomenon of Doctor Shopping

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 10A: Health and Ethics
Chair: Peter Schulz

Delphine Arweiler
Health and Ethical Choices in Economics

Michele Wates
Qualifying for the Right to Die - A Dubious Privilege: Assisted Dying for
the Terminally Ill

Glennys Godlovitch and Nina Preto
Reconciling Discretion, Jurisdiction and Equity: Funding of Health Services in Canada

Session 10B: Writing the Experiences of Illness 1
Chair: Isabelle Lange

Isabelle Meuret
Writing Size Zero Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures

Melinda Rosenberg
Empathic Witnessing in Patient Pathographies

Charlotte Baker
Writing Over the Illness: (Mis)interpreting Albinism

17.30
Sessions End

Thursday 7th July 2005

09.00
Session 11: The Myths and Metaphors of Illness (2)
Chair: Gillian Bendelow

Katarina Bernhardsson
Serpents, Devils, Zebras: Metaphors of Illness in Swedish Literature on Eating Disorders (1987-2005)

Katherine Byrne
Constructing a Consumptive Myth: Medical Discourse and the Representation of Tuberculosis

Gudrun M. Grabher
Final Exam with the Gargoyle: Cancer and Its Metaphors in Gail Godwin’s Novel The Good Husband

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 12: Writing the Experience of Illness (2)
Chair: Charlotte Baker

Thérèse Taylor
'"Beyond Description"- Seventeenth-Century Representations of Breast Cancer

Victoria M. Grace, Sara MacBride-Stewart
Metaphors of Injury: Making Sense of Visceral Pelvic Pain

Zoe Norridge
Perceptions of Pain in Contemporary Zimbawean literature - Personal and Public Narratives in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 13: Identity, Description and Representation
Chair: Michele Wates

Isabelle Lange
Surgery and Identity

Lisa Szczerba
The Aesthetics of Self-Representation in Pregnancy and Childbirth

15.00
Tea

15.30
Development Meeting
Rob Fisher and Peter Twohig

16.00
Conference Close