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)

Wednesday 12th July 2006
from 12.00
Registration and Coffee

14.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher, Peter Twohig and Asa Kasher

14.15
Keynote Paper
Harold Schweizer,
On Waiting and Hoping in Raymond Carver's A Small, Good Thing

15.45
Tea

16.15
Session 2: The Dying Patient
Joint Session
Chair: Regis A. De Silva

Asa Kasher
The Dying Patient: A New Israeli Law

Marlene Benjamin
The Discovered Self: Catastrophic Illness, Dying, and Death in the Shaping of Character

Rob Fisher
The Evils of Making Sense of Death

Katherine Powis
Can the Dying Mourn?

18.15
Notices and Announcements

Wine Reception

19.00
Dinner

Thursday 13th July 2006
Session 3 - Recovering Voices: Narratives of Disease, Illness and Pain
Chair: Peter Schulz

Elizabeth Toon
'She Demanded to Have the Breast Removed': Medical Case Reports and Women's Experiences of Cancer in Mid 20th-century Britain

Julie Anderson
'Spare Your Tears': Representing and Narrating Blind Bodies in Britain, 1915-1925

Ana Carden-Coyne
Men in Pain: Narratives, Agency and Military Medicine

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4A - Wounded Storytellers: Patient and Provider Perspectives
Chair: Rob Fisher

Fay Bound Alberti
Emotions and the Heart in Nineteenth-Century England: The Framing of Angina Pectoris

Andrew Estefan
Cool, Calm and Collected: Narratives of Gay Men's Self-Harm

Jennifer Driscoll
'The Wounded storyteller': Practitioner as Patient Postmodern Analysis of Life-Writing

Session 4B - Workshop
Culturally Sensitive Healthcare: A Multidisciplinary Workshop
Beatrice Sofaer

12.30
Lunch

14.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5A - Literary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease
Chair: Vera Kalitzkus

Patty Kelly
Trauma Narratives in Canadian Fiction: A Chronotopic Analysis of Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost

Maria Vaccarella
"You're the foreign body now": Making sense of leukaemia in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body

Eleftheria Kavazi
'The Body at Various Stages of Decline: Health, Illness, Disease and Disability in Samuel Beckett's Drama'

Session 5B - Health Services and Research: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Chair: Leeat Granek

Jeremy Howick
Placebo Controls: Epistemic Virtue or Vice?

Gloria Likupe
Is Informed Consent an Adequate and Necessary Protection for Research Subjects?

15.30
Tea

16.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 6A - Ethnographic Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease
Chair: Angela Fenwick

Mamata Mishra
llness Representations: An Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Belief in the Supernatural in the Tribal Context of Orissa

Stefanie Granado
Palu: A Metaphor in Peoples' Everyday Life in Abidjan

Janina Kehr
The Politics and Poetics of Immigrant Tuberculosis: Making Sense of a "Social Disease" in Contemporary France

Session 6B - Chronic Pain, Caregivers and the Illness Community
Chair: Sherah Wells

Amanda Nettelbeck
The Illness Community: Definitions and Uses of Community in Australian Illness Memoirs, Survivor Accounts and Support Group Resources

Dorothy Lander and John R. Graham-Pole
Love Medicine for the Dying and their Caregivers: The Body of Evidence

Beatrice Sofaer
The Lived Experience of Older People who Suffer Chronic Pain

17.30
Sessions End

Friday 14th July 2006
09.00
Session 7 - Nature, Health, Illness and Disease
Chair: Peter Twohig

Ann Novogradec
The Examination of the Causes of Cancer through an Environmental Lens

Andrew Goffey
At War with Ourselves: Immunology between Nature and Culture

Keely Macarow
You Have Cancer

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8 - Social Perspectives on Alcohol and other Drugs
Chair: Marlene Benjamin

Kimmo Saaristo
Addiction as a Disease; Identity and Normality

Maria Caiata Zufferey
"I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict". How Heroin and Cocaine Users make Sense of their Practice as a Healthy Behaviour

Andy Ruddock
Innocent Bystanders: Reading Alcohol and Violence in Liverpool

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Sessions
Session 9A - At Risk? Social Perspectives on Health and Health Promotion
Chair: Katherine Powis

Kate Coleman
Personal and Communal Reactions to Cancer: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Beliefs held by charedi Jewish Breast Cancer Patients

B. Wiitavaara, et al.
Health as Balance: Illness and Wellness among persons with Musculoskeletal Disorders

Han-Rog Kang
Understanding the Doctrine of the Five Periods and Six Qi in the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon

Session 9B - Social Perspectives on Different Bodies
Chair: Elizabeth Toon

Sofie Vandamme
The Obesity Debate: A Story of Sloth and Gluttony with a Moral Ending…

Fiona Dykes
'Under the Microscope': Transgressing the Boundaries of 'Correct' Infant Feeding

Timothy Harfield
The Monster Without: Red Dragon, the Cleft-Lip, and the Politics of Recognition

15.30
Tea

16.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 10A - Bodies: Disability, Significance and Tension
Chair: Patty Kelly

Dawn Berry
Between Defect and Disability? Problematizing Cleft Lip and Palates.

Leah McClimans
The Body's Significance to Health and Disease Cochlear Implants, Quality of Life Measures, Functional Understandings of the Body

Angela Fenwick
Medical Students' Use of the Body: Challenges and Tensions

Session 10B - Gendering Health, Illness and Disease
Chair: Andy Ruddock

Adina Keryn Batnitzky
Carrying the Weight of Disease: Female Obesity in Morocco.

Marjo Taivalantti
Gendered Distress in Women's Narratives about Cardiac Artery Disease in Kainuu, Finland

Julie Doyle and Irmi Karl
Shame on You: Discourses of Health, Class and Gender in the Promotion of Cosmetic Surgery Within Popular Media

17.30
Sessions End

Saturday 15th July 2006
09.00
Session 11 - Exploring Health, Illness and Disease through Literature
Chair: Julie Anderson

Sherah Wells
Strand by Strand: Untying the Knots of Mental and Physical Illness in the Correspondence and Diaries of Antonia White and Emily Coleman

Peggy Yoon
Narratives of Illness in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

Jennifer Cooke
Writing Plague: Transforming Narrative, Witnessing, and History

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 12 - Knowledge, Message and Communication
Chair: Timothy Harfield

Peter Schulz and Kent Nakamoto
"Health Literacy"

Marta Csabai and Katalin Szili
The Iinterdependent Roles of Expert and Lay Knowledges in Making Sense of Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Charlotte Humphrey
Ways of Seeing: Biomedical Perspectives on the Social World

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 13 - Health, Illness and Disease: Private, Public and Social Views
Chair: Andrew Goffey

Leeat Granek
What's Love got to do with it? The Relational Nature of Depressive Experiences

M. Brown
Women as Mysterious Machine: Female Sexual Dysfunction and the Impossible Journey into Female Pleasure

Stephan van Erp
Suffering: Rediscovering Religion in Medicine

16.30
Tea and Development Meeting

17.00
Conference Close