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.1.8c)

Monday 9th July 2007
from 12.30
Registration

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

14.30
Keynote Talk
Chair: Asa Kasher

Can I be Ill and Happy?
Havi Carel

16.00
Tea

16.30
Session 1: Identity and Character in Health, Illness and Disease
Chair: Peter Twohig

"This Ever-transient Accidental Crossing of Momentums": On Alan Shapiro's Poem, "The Accident"
Harold Schweitzer

Coping with Lupus: Images of Illness in the Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor
Gretchen Dobrott

"I have epilepsy but it's not who I am." Making Sense of Epilepsy in Roy Robinson's Electricity
Maria Vaccarella

18.00
Wine Reception

19.00
Dinner

Tuesday 10th July 2007
09.00
Session 2: Health, Illness and Disease in Social Context
Chair: Harold Schweizer

Biophelia and Passionate Sociology: Tools for Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease
Maya Gislason

Multiculturalism and Health: Applied Anthropology and Migrant Communities in Barcelona
Hugo Valenzuela García

The Barretstown Experience: Communitas and Liminality
Peter Kearney

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 3: Narrative, Self and Health, Illness and Disease
Chair: Louise Penner

From Narrative to Rhetoric in the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Carlann Fox Scholl

Self, Narrative and Illness as Creative Invention
Monica Greco

The Everyday Body and Illness
Lucille Spurr

12.30
Lunch

14.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 4a: Art and the Representation of Health, Illness and Disease
Chair: Peter Schulz

Body and Pain: David Wojnarowicz’s Avant-Garde Remaking of the World
Bill Albertini

Re-thinking the ‘Clinical Gaze’: Art, Surgery and Tactility
Suzannah Biernoff

The Semantics of Physical Pain in Science Fiction
Barbara Korte

Session 4b: Explanatory Models
Chair: Gretchen Dobrott

Sense and Sensibility’ - Medical Pluralism in Postsocialist Croatia
Tanja Bukovcan

Indignation in a Cross-cultural Clinical Context
Nathalie Dinh

Explanatory Models of Mental Illness in Urban Tanzania
Samrad Ghane

15.30
Tea

16.00
Session 5a: Alternative Interpretations of Dependency Discourses
Chair: John Morra

Health, Alcohol Consumption and the Issue of Intoxication
Kieran Bonner

Evolution of the Meaning of Drug Dependence as a Disease in the Eighties and the Nineties under the Impact of AIDS in the United Kingdom
Hervé Hudebin

Session 5b: Seeking Care
Chair: Margo Milne

Can Medical and Lay Logic Meet? Enhancing Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Early Detection, Mortality Reduction
Lea Hagoel

Sorry For Any Delays
Jennifer Yiallouros and Nicki Thorogood

17.00
Sessions End

Wednesday 11th July 2007
09.00
Keynote Address
Chair: Rob Fisher

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN - End-of-Life Legislation and the Semiotics of the Female Body
Regis de Silva

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 6: Knowledge for Practice and the Practice of Knowledge
Chair: Kimmo Saaristo

Pathways to Pathologising: Does the Concept of Abnormality Differ Cross-Culturally?
Lauren Ban

Whose Meanings? Diffusing Sociology of Health Concepts to a Multicultural Medical Audience
Paula Feder-Bubis and Lea Hagoel

Internal versus External Health Information Sources: Behind Current Information Seeking Behaviour
Peter J. Schulz, Maria Caiata Zufferey

12.30
Lunch

14.00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 7a: Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease through Narratives
Chair: Maria Vaccarella

Making Sense of an “Illegitimate Illness”: Discourses of Illness and Health in Narratives of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
Penny Jaffray

Stories of Understanding
Noreen Kelly

Session 7b: Stress, Relocation and Reading Bodies
Chair: Bill Albertini

An Alternative to the Concept of Stress as the Linking Mechanism Between Work and Ill-health?
Helen Sampson

Relocating the Social: An Exploration into how Practioners and Therapists make Sense of Health and Healing in Alternative Contexts
Maxine Birch and Nina Nissen

15.00
Tea

15.30
Session 8a: Perceptions of 'Health'
Chair: Peter Kearney

Iranian Men’s Perceptions and Experiences about Early Detection of Prostate Cancer
Ali Taghipour

Tales of Healthy Men? From ‘Lebensborn’ to Semen Banks
Antje Kampf

Session 8b: Breast Cancer and Surgery: New Interpretations
Chair: Regis de Silva

The Creative Force of Words: An Analysis of Anger in Three Breast Cancer Narratives
Lizabeth Rand

More than Birth, Sex, and Death? The Personal and Social Significance of Breasts and Breast Surgery in Contemporary Britain
Jude Frankau

16.30
Sessions End

Thursday 12th July 2007
09.00
Session 9A: Health, Illness and Disease in Historical Perspective
Chair: Antje Kampf

Engaging the British Victorian Public: Florence Nightingale and the Madras Famine of 1876
Anna Louise Penner

Negotiating Hygiene on the Borders of Empires: The 1917 Sanitary ‘Crisis’ in the Manchurian Town of Andong
Robert Perrins

Session 9B: Camouflaging Bodies, Mapping Minds
Chair: Suzannah Biernoff

Portraying Psychiatry: An Analysis of Images of Mental Disorder in Print Advertising for Medical Journals
Carla Barton

The Art of Camouflage: Discourse, Health and the Military Body
Julie Ann Zabinski.

Reading Bodies, Reading India
Ananya Ghoshal

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 10: Perspectives on Illness, Wellness and Disability
Chair: Paula Feder-Bubis

Health, Wellbeing, Potential and Capability
Iain Law

Physically Disabled People's Attitudes to End-of-Life Issues: Preparing for Fieldwork
Margo Milne

Queering Illness: Issues of Stigma and Disclosure in Chronic Illness
Kimberly Myers

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 11: Consuming Bodies: Literary Representations of Health, Illness and Disease
Chair: Jude Frankau

Death, Illness, and Disability: The Crisis of Iraqi Masculinity in Betool Khedairi's Novel Ghayeb
Abir Hamdar

Bodily Decay, Disease and Death in Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman
Marta Cerezo Moreno

15.00
Tea

15.30
Development Meeting

16.00
Conference Close

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