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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

New: Stories

10th September 2015 by Dave Nicholls 1 Comment

For reasons I've never really understood, physiotherapists seem really reluctant to tell their work stories.  I'm not talking about the conversations we've all had with our partners, families and friends about interesting clinical problems we've faced or patients we've treated, but rather the kinds of things that give us pause to reflect on what we're doing, or make us think that there's a lesson here that others could share in. A long time ago, doctors, midwives, nurses and psychologists recognised the value of stories, giving birth to the whole idea of narrative-based medicine and the medical humanities.  But physiotherapists have been slow on the uptake. The latest edition of the … [Read more...] about New: Stories

Filed Under: 30 Days Tagged With: narratives, practice, qualitative, stories, writing

The construction of professional identity by physiotherapists: a qualitative study

11th June 2015 by Dave Nicholls Leave a Comment

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A new paper now available online from CPN members Ralph Hammond, Vinette Cross and Ann Moore Published Online: April 23, 2015 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physio.2015.04.002 Abstract The UK Frances Report and increasing societal expectations of healthcare have challenged physiotherapists to reconsider professionalism. Physiotherapy has viewed identity as a fixed entity emphasising coherence, continuity and distinctiveness. Socialisation has required the acquisition of a professional identity as one necessary ‘asset’ for novices. Yet how do physiotherapists come to be the physiotherapists they are? Design Qualitative study using Collective Memory Work. Eight physiotherapists in … [Read more...] about The construction of professional identity by physiotherapists: a qualitative study

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: ethics, health care, identity, morality, narratives, physiotherapy, professionalism

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