Body Talk: whose language? AMH Conference

06/06/2019

Only 20 days left before our 2019 conference in Plymouth - do you have your tickets yet? https://bit.ly/2WjFwUf

Material Medicine: Objects and Bodies What is the force of clinical objects? What are the objects of care? How are they held? How have they been held through time? Clinicians, how do you warm your objects? How do patients see/imagine/experience clinical objects? What are the ethics of objects? Book....

14/05/2018

The preliminary programme for the conference in Sophia is now online. http://amh.ac.uk/amh-conference-2018-sofia-bulgaria/ …

06/03/2018

Good news the website for our forthcoming conference in Sophia, Bulgaria is now live - Look forward to seeing you all there. http://amh-bg.com

09/07/2016

The AMH 2016 Conference

08/07/2016

Chilling and watching David Grey do his sound check. A great end to a fab conference. It's like having our own private concert.

21/06/2016

Our press release is now live - tell all your friends!
http://bit.ly/28OnpP6

Putting the human touch into medicine: Body Talk conference Date of release: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 The human body, healthcare, illness and emotions are just some of the topics to be discussed by experts during a major international conference at the University of Greenwich next month.Body Talk, tak...

14/06/2016

After a huge amount of work the abstracts are now starting to appear online. http://tinyurl.com/h5nlzsj

13/04/2016

Great news - The conference has been approved for Royal College of Physicians UK CPD credits

13/04/2016

13/04/2016

Association of Medical Humanities Conference 2016 Earlybird registration extended until the 30th April http://tinyurl.com/bodytalk2016

The 2016 Association for Medical Humanities conference and first Student Conference (6th July am) will be hosted by The Faculty of Education and Health at The University of Greenwich, London.

12/04/2016

https://sites.google.com/site/listeningtopatients/home

12/04/2016

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/11/letting-patients-tell-their-stories/?_r=0

Doctors have many skills, but we often fail to appreciate people’s messy, beautiful lives.

09/02/2016

Some interesting points in this article and an excellent book.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/books/review/the-good-death-when-breath-becomes-air-and-more.html?_r=0

Five books explore the way we are shaped by our knowledge of mortality.

04/02/2016

Interesting piece in the Guardian. We have an invited workshop from and lively elderly pensioner who has been working in this field for many years. https://www.facebook.com/theguardian/posts/10153916295871323

They are not medical experts, but they work alongside NHS staff in hospices or the community to help patients take control over their final days

02/02/2016

Call for Papers

We invite you to participate in these exciting and innovative discussions on the site of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, created at the end of the 17th century, itself born out of particular considerations and views of welfare and healthcare provision.

We welcome abstract submissions for paper presentations (around 200 words), workshops, performances, interactive sessions and posters on the topic “Body Talk: whose language?” While we especially encourage papers reporting research findings and innovative practice, we also welcome those exploring new theories and new and exciting ideas. Papers are invited on, but not necessarily limited to, the following broad themes:

Body Talk: My body/your body – who is in the room? Narrative medicine and therapeutic relationship: visual and verbal representations and languages, movement, roles and performance. (Re)presenting , listening and interpreting being human, human body, future bodies, metaphors and symbols, critical dialogues in images, reproductions and languages of anatomy, physiology biochemistry and psychology, clinical encounters and diagnosis, gaming and virtual clinics. Professional practice in medicine and healthcare.

Body Talk: My body/your body - whose rights, whose theory? Politics, theories, differences and diversity. Issues of equity, sexuality, disability and the law in global, national, institutional, individual and personal service provision, education and treatment, personalised medicine. Social medicine in the past and present and specific groups of people: children’s healthcare and illness, women and health, mental health, sexual health, disabled health, ageing.Countercurrents in cultural and social representations, theories and histories of body.

Body Talk: My body/your body - whose language? Traditions, beliefs and world views. Encounters with global systems and indigenous cultures. Translations across languages and cultures, internationally and nationally. Different environments in healthcare and development: complementary medicine and holistic practice. Research in other worlds, ethnography, anthropology, geography and ethical medicine. New thinking for new worlds: genetic science, biomedicine and economics, psychoneuroimmunology, body ecology, economics and complexity, systems thinking.

02/02/2016

Themes

We welcome proposals for paper presentations, workshops, posters and interactive sessions that address aspects of the conference theme 'Body Talk: whose language?' Suggestions include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Clinical encounters: their narratives and representations
• Politics, institutions and individual treatments: personalising
treatment
• Critical dialogues: images, reproductions and languages of
anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and psychology
• Representations: body and illness in literature, art, philosophy
and history
• Diagnostic languages across disciplines
• Psychoneuroimmunology, systems and ecologies
• Countercurrents in cultural and social representation, theory
and history

Closing date for submissions is the 1st March 2016

02/02/2016

Student Conference 6th July 2016. 09:00 - 13:00
The student conference forms part of a two day international conference on Medical Humanities. It is directed at student health practitioners and health professionals and aims to:

• Encourage an understanding of the role and relevance of
medical humanities within
healthcare settings, and
• Explore how medical humanities can offer creative perspectives
in developing practice in health care settings.

The conference offers an opportunity to take part in Master classes with Professor Rita Charon, Professor Alan Beakley, Professor Zoë Playdon and Dr. Vassilka Nikolova.

Explore and share the experiences of colleagues who have used a medical humanities approach to inform and enhance their practice and reflect on the implications for their own current and future practice.

Poster presentations are invited with prizes of £50, £30 and three runners up of £15 each.

02/02/2016

Keynote Speakers;
Professor Rita Charon, Columbia University
Living in a Body: Mortality, Intersubjectivity,
and Creativity

Professor Lisa Blackman, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr Satendra Singh, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi
Professor Zoë Playdon, University of London
Cinzia Scorzon, University of Westminster
Dr Deepa Apté, Ayurveda Pura Academy
Professor Sandra Kemp, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Professor Gregory Sporton, University of Greenwich

02/02/2016

Body Talk: whose language?

Wednesday 6 July, 2016 – Friday 8 July, 2016

The University of Greenwich

The 2016 Association for Medical Humanities conference and first Student Conference (6th July am) will be hosted by The Faculty of Education and Health at The University of Greenwich, London.

The campus is located on a World Heritage Site on the banks of the river Thames, centered in magnificent Baroque buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren at the end of the 17th century. It is apt that these innovative discussions take place here, on the site of the Royal Hospital, itself born out of particular historical developments in welfare and healthcare provision.

This is the first time the Association has come to Greenwich and we look forward to warmly welcoming you to these events.