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13th July 2017 by Dave Nicholls Leave a Comment

This post is the first from a new blogger on the site.  Cath Cruse-Drew's first post explores the use of categories in physiotherapy.  There's some more information about Cath at the bottom of this post. I have often wondered why Physios, Physio educators and Physio managers align our profession with the categorisation of illness and disability.  Thomas Sydenham started the diagnostic ball rolling in his ‘Observationes Medicae’ in 1676, his ‘carving nature at its joints’ was thought to be a methodically sound and scientific approach that matched the ideas of the biological sciences of the day in the classification of plants and animals. Thus, the idea of difference in medicine began. … [Read more...] about Categories

Filed Under: Editorial Tagged With: categories, ICF, lived experience, protocols, uncertainty

Stories of Illness / Disability in Literature and Comics – Berlin, October 27-28 2017

5th May 2017 by Dave Nicholls Leave a Comment

From October 27-28, 2017, this two-day academic conference at the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité examines the ways in which knowledge and experience of illness and disability circulate within the realms of medicine, art, the personal and the cultural. We invite papers that address this question from a variety of different perspectives, including literary scholarship, comics studies, media studies, disability studies, and health humanities/ sociology/ geography. Keynote speaker: Leigh Gilmore (Wellesley College), Author of The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (2001) and Tainted Witness: Why we doubt what women say about their lives (2017). The PathoGraphics … [Read more...] about Stories of Illness / Disability in Literature and Comics – Berlin, October 27-28 2017

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: comics, disability, literature, lived experience, narratives, normalisation, storying

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