Monday 9th July – Thursday 12th July 2007
Mansfield College, Oxford
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
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