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To Think is To Experiment: Postgraduate Research Conference at the Centre for Narrative Research

05/03/2019 by Dave Nicholls Leave a Comment

To Think is To Experiment: Postgraduate Research Conference at the Centre for Narrative Research 2nd May 2019, 10 am – 4 pm, University of East London, University Square, Stratford The Centre for Narrative Research (CNR) will organise To Think is to Experiment, the annual Postgraduate Research Conference on the 2nd May 2019. The event has been a space of in-depth conversations on various aspects of narrative-based research and postgraduate research experiences since 2003. This year, we invite papers focusing on the analysis of narratives, discussing and reflecting on the analytical decisions and experiences of researchers, including the ethical ones. We are interested in both broader … [Read more...] about To Think is To Experiment: Postgraduate Research Conference at the Centre for Narrative Research

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Keith Waldron – Rejecting Medical Humanism – 30DoS #29

29/09/2016 by Dave Nicholls Leave a Comment

In this post, physical therapist Keith Waldron Jeffrey Bishop's article Rejecting Medical Humanism. In this article, published in 2007, Dr. Bishop writes eloquently of the metaphysics of medicine, referencing the works of Nietzsche, Foucault, Heidegger, and Deleuze, and how they relate to today’s biopsychosociologisms. He puts forth a compelling argument against the use of the humanities and narrative medicine as an add-on, or a compensation for the mechanisation of medicine. He writes of a continued dualism that no longer distinguishes the body from the mind, but instead focuses on the dichotomy between meanings and mechanisms. Dr. Bishop reflects on the ever-increasing emphasis … [Read more...] about Keith Waldron – Rejecting Medical Humanism – 30DoS #29

Filed Under: 30 Days Tagged With: biopsychosocial, body, Deleuze, Foucault, Heidegger, humanities, medicine, mind, narrative, Nietzsche

Blaise Doran – Healing dramas and clinical plots – 30DoS #19

19/09/2016 by Dave Nicholls Leave a Comment

Healing dramas and clinical plots (1998) is an ethnographic account by anthropologist, Cheryl Mattingly, of occupational therapists’ work in rehabilitation settings during the mid-1980s. She uses diverse sources to support her ideas from literary and narrative theory, phenomenology and hermeneutics, and anthropological perspectives on ritual and narrative. In doing so, she presents the rehabilitation process, and its clinical interactions, as a form of drama, adhering to a socially constructed narrative plot. She proposes that, if narrative (as has been suggested) reflects the lived experience, it does so through narrative drama rather than narrative cohesion. As an undergraduate, I came … [Read more...] about Blaise Doran – Healing dramas and clinical plots – 30DoS #19

Filed Under: 30 Days Tagged With: anthropology, drama, ethnography, narrative, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, social construction

Critical physiotherapy research update

30/03/2015 by Dave Nicholls Leave a Comment

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Depression embodied: an ambiguous striving against fading Louise Danielsson and Susanne Rosberg Although depression is associated to physical discomfort, meanings of the body in depression are rarely addressed in clinical research. Drawing on the concept of the lived body, this study explores depression as an embodied phenomenon. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, the analysis of narrative-based interviews with 11 depressed adults discloses a thematic structure of an embodied process of an ambiguous striving against fading. Five subthemes elicit different dimensions of this process, interpreted as disabling or enabling: feeling estranged, feeling confined, feeling … [Read more...] about Critical physiotherapy research update

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