Place: Georg Sverdrups hus (University Library)
Conference site: Cultural Crossings of Care
Friday 26. October
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09.15 |
Registration and refreshments |
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10.00 |
Opening (Pro-Rector Gro Bjørnerud Mo) Welcome (Prof. Eivind Engebretsen & John Ødemark |
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Keynote lecture: “Clinical Cases and Anecdotes: Revaluing Damaged Goods”Prof. Brian Hurwitz (King’s College London) Read moreThe clinical case operates in the different ontological zones of culture and nature, the human and non human. Initially formulated in Hippocratic observations of external bodily appearances within an overall teleology of recovery or death, in the Christian era this binary came to be visualised as a contiguity of fleshly splendour and bodily decay. In the modern era, disease definition and diagnosis became the dominant themes worked out in medical cases, the sick person’s vicissitudes ‘merely variations on them.’[1] As Julia Epstein argues, ‘western medical discourse postulate[d] that illness can be, at least momentarily (long enough […] to study, classify, and pass judgment on it), dissociable from the ill person’.[2] In seeking to reformulate phenomena of illness in disease categories, the case has come to mediate what is subjectively experienced in local and cultural terms as problems to be understood in terms of nature and science. Correlatively, in contemporary case reporting, two sorts of histories come into play: ‘a superficial, overt, story presented by the patient […] and a deep, covert, and “true” history revealed by […] the physician’.[3] Despite its capacity to access worlds beyond the familiar within and outside of the body, and to assimilate the strange and offensive to its tasks, the high epistemic status previously enjoyed by the case as a heuristic tool in medical theory and practice has all but disappeared. Across the durée of the twentieth-century its influence diminished, sinking in the second half of the century to its lowest ebb when it became equated with, and collapsed into, the anecdote. This paper examines the continuing epistemic dependence of medicine on cases and anecdotes,[4] understood as quasi-objects and subjects straddling subject/object, voice/body, inside/outside, familiar/alien and individual/social. [5] [6] Though the contemporary case gives more attention to one component of these bifurcational dyads than to the other, the cross zone hybridity of the case remains a vital counterbalance to the grandeur of generality to which biomedicine aspires. [1]Lee T Pearcy, ‘Diagnosis as Narrative in Ancient Literature’, Am J Philology 1992 113(4) 595-616. [2]Julia Epstein, ‘Historiography, Diagnosis and Poetics’, Literature & Medicine 1992; 11(1): pp. 23e44 at 33. [3]Jonathan Gillis, ‘The History of the Patient History since 1850’, Bull Hist Med 2006; 80(3):490e512 at 512. [4]Brian Hurwitz, ‘Narrative Constructs in Modern Clinical Case Reporting’ Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 2017; 62: 65-73 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368117300717 |
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11.45 – 13.00 |
Lunch and concert |
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13.00 – 14.30 |
Parallel sessionsSession 1 (Undervisningsrom 2) Eszter Ureczky: East of the Magic Mountain: The crisis of care in Hungarian clinical film dystopias Session 2 (Auditorium 1) Alan Bleakley: The Medical Humanities: a therapeutic intervention for medicine’s inflation Session 3 (Undervisningsrom 3) Sietse Wieringa: Rethinking bias and truth in evidence‐based health care Session 4 (Grupperom 1) Katarina Båth: Trauma as literature – literature as therapy Session 5 (Undervisningsrom 1) Sylvie Fainzang: Patient responses to medicinal risks. The objective foundations of subjective knowledge Session 6 (Undervisningsrom 4) Jennifer Patterson: Measuring Truths: thinking with the uterus - Medical culture, magical thinking and migratory practices Session 7 (Auditorium 2) Marit Haldar: Technology for vulnerable elderly people “What’s the Problem represented to be?” approach |
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14.30 – 14.45 |
Break |
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14.45 – 17.45
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Parallel sessionsThere will be a short break with snacks between 16.15-16.45 Session 8 (Auditorium 1) Emmanuel Delille: Searching for the cultural factors of care and mental health: The history of the first international network in transcultural psychiatry (McGill University, 1955) Session 9 (Auditorium 2) Mathias Gillebo: Singing Reality. To Sing as Ethical Demand and Public Discourse. Session 10 (Undervisningsrom 1) Hafsa Ayaz: The body in medicine: object or subject? Session 11 (Undervisningsrom 2) Kari Nyheim Solbrække and Birgitta Haga Gripsrud: Scientific supremacy as an obstacle to establishing and sustaining interdisciplinary dialogue across knowledge paradigms in health and medicine. Session 12 (Grupperom 1) Renata Kokanovic and Meredith Stone: (E)stranged Relations: Coercion and care in narratives of supported decision-making in mental health care Session 13 (Undervisningsrom 3) Alice Cavanagh: Embodied Difference, Eating Disorders & the Cultural Production of Corporeality Session 14 (Undervisningsrom 4) Chisomo Kalinga: Ulimbaso (You Will Be Strong Again): Addressing the Positive and Negative Connotations of ‘Strong Black Woman’ Trope in Malawian Health Narratives |
| 17.45 – 18.00 | Break |
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Honorary lecture: “A tragedy and a dream: disability revisited”Prof. Julia Kristeva (Univ. Paris Diderot) Commentary: “Welcoming the Unexpected: Toward a Humanistic Understanding of Disability Conservation”Prof. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University) |
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20.15 |
Reception |
Saturday 27. October
| 09.00 – 10.00 |
Keynote lecture: “Transcultural issues for children and parents in a changing world”Prof. Marie Rose Moro (Univ. Paris Descartes) |
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Keynote lecture: “Medical humanities - the best hope for global grand challenges?”Prof. Trisha Greenhalgh (Oxford University) Read moreAbstract: It is widely assumed that solutions to global grand challenges such as reducing damage from climate change, meeting the healthcare needs of an ageing population and harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence will come from science and technology. This lecture will argue that whilst scientific insights and new technologies are important, addressing grand challenges are also about moral choices, political arguments, social movements, collective stories and cultural symbols. Indeed, in recent years scientific and technological progress has outstripped our ability to engage at a human level with the vast challenges facing the planet. Accordingly, now more than ever is the time we should look to the humanities. |
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Roundtable: Barriers to InclusionWith Julia Kristeva, Marie Rose Moro, Trisha Greenhalgh and Brian Hurwitz (chaired by BMJ MedHum EIC Brandy Schillace) Read moreDr. Brandy Schillace, EIC of BMJ's Medical Humanities journal, presents a closing roundtable on the topic of barriers to inclusion. MH has expanded its mission to include underrepresented voices, particularly from the Global South. And yet, even as we invite these submissions, we are faced with the reality that our evaluative systems are predicated on Western models and privilege Western methods, ideas, and ideals. We are navigating these barriers to cross-cultural dialogue, and looking for solutions. But barriers are prevalent in all aspects of our work, from class, race, and gender to other issues of access, ableism, and social justice. In this roundtable discussion, the keynote speakers will make up a panel to discuss barriers to inclusion from different perspectives. The panel discussion will be followed by small group discussion and an open roundtable between and among participants. We want cultural crossing of care--what are the problems and solutions of this ideal in practice? |
| 12.00 – 12.45 | Lunch |
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Parallel sessionsSession 15 (Undervisningsrom 1) Vanessa Bartlett, Chloe Watson, Bec Dean, Katherine Boydell, Lizzie Muller, Lynn Froggett and Jill Bennett: Cura/tor: transdisciplinary art-science research as a practice of curatorial care Session 16 (Auditorium 2) Flora Smyth Zahra: Different epistemologies and the false dichotomy in the Health professions. To deliver values based practice and person centred care then we need to re-embed the Humanities in clinical education programmes Session 17 (Undervisningsrom 2) Helene Scott-Fordsmand: Reversing the medical humanities – the implicit reciprocity within the field Session 18 (Undervisningsrom 3) Vanbasten Noronha de Araujo: Unsettling clinical encounters: the entanglement between bodies, affects, and pain in Fibromyalgia treatment Session 19 (Undervisningsrom 4) Samar Albarghouthi: “Please do not tell the patient!”: Between truth-telling and truth-making: Palestinian oncologists moral and cultural dilemmas regarding disclosure Session 20 (Auditorium 1) Jo Winning: Learning to think-with: feminist epistemology and the practice-based medical humanities Session 21 (Grupperom 1) Charlotte Wu: Cultures of the ‘Other’, biomedicine and epistemic injustice |
| Closing (Prof. Eivind Engebretsen & John Ødemark) |