Thursday 3rd November 2011 Education Room, St Cuthbert’s Hospice Park House Road, Merryoaks, Durham DH1 3QF 6.00 pm light buffet 7.00-8.30 talks and discussion Should We Do More to Avoid Hospital Admissions? There are good reasons for avoiding hospital admissions: they risk secondary conditions, they are very expensive, they sometimes Read more…
Medicine Unboxed is a project which looks to engage the public and healthcare professionals jointly, on a view of medicine that is necessarily more than the technical – one informed by the humanities and demanding an appraisal of patient experience, clinical ethics and the goals of medicine. We see that Read more…
Obesity and the Rejection of Body Normativity Wednesday 18 May 2011 CMCI Work Room (formerly the Art Exhibition Room, on the ground floor of the South East Block), King’s College London, Strand Campus 17:30-19:00 followed by a wine reception Following our successful launch in 2010, GenderMatters@King’s, a research network of Read more…
2011 International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine Saturday 7th May 2011 Medical Teaching Centre, Building 37 University of Warwick Gibbet Hill Campus, CV4 7AL, UK From the symposium web site: “For the 2011 symposium and 2011 Hippocrates Prize awards, we draw on national and international perspectives on three major historical Read more…
How do we better understand, and change, people’s behaviour in relation to symptoms? Thursday 23rd June, Wolfson Research Institute, Queen’s Campus, Stockton The Durham Qualitative Health Research Group and ERDU present a half day workshop, comprising keynote speakers, break-out discussion sessions, and a plenary session focusing on ways forward and Read more…
On the 50th anniversary of Erving Goffman’s Asylums: “What would Goffman have made of today’s PFI asylums?” A Durham Qualitative Health Research Group Seminar by Dr Ian Spencer Wednesday 27th April, 12—2pm The Pennington Room, Grey College, Durham. A light buffet lunch will be provided at 12pm: please reply to Read more…
Mike White writes: In recent years the arts in health field has acquired the expertise to address a wide spectrum of medical, health and social care issues. It has the resilience and resourcefulness to weather the impending health service reforms in an era of austerity. But it will need to Read more…
Clive Parkinson, Director of Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University, continues his earlier posts: For me, this idea of a space between ‘anxiety and boredom’ is deeply interesting and to round off my seminar, I wanted to take this a step further and propose, that instead of striving for Read more…
The first of a series of three posts by Clive Parkinson, Director of Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University, based on his February 16 Seminar. Presenting my ideas to colleagues at Durham’s Centre for Medical Humanities was always going to be a little daunting, because the work they’re undertaking Read more…
The Durham Qualitative Health Research Group presents: Rose Barbour, Professor in Public Health and Primary Care, University of Dundee “Using focus groups in health research” Thursday 24th February, 12 noon – 2pm, Room F009, Wolfson Research Institute, Queen’s Campus, Stockton. A light buffet lunch will be provided, so please reply Read more…