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Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 10:44:54
From: Anne-Mette Hermans [anna.hermans at kcl.ac.uk]
Subject: BAAL Health & Science Communication SIG

 
Full Title: BAAL Health & Science Communication SIG 

Date: 28-Nov-2016 - 28-Nov-2016
Location: Milton Keynes, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Zsófia Demjén
Meeting Email: zsofia.demjen at open.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

“Experiences of illness and death: learning from the discourses of realities
and fictions”

Hosted by the Faculty of Well-being, Education and Language Studies The Open
University, Milton Keynes

“Any serious illness is a medical event, but it is lived in narrative terms”
wrote Andrew

Solomon in a recent article for The Guardian. This workshop will focus on
these ‘lived’ and ‘narrative’ aspects of the experience of illness and death
from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Accounts of illness and dying by patients, carers and healthcare professionals
have been at the heart the medical humanities for several decades. They have
been called upon to better understand patients and to enable patient-centered
care, to improve training and empathy in healthcare professionals and to begin
to assist those who informally support and care for the ill. They have been
investigated from the perspectives of history, sociology, literature, the
visual arts and, more recently, linguistics. At the same time, these disparate
approaches and applications, have tended to leave the field somewhat
fragmented. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers of
different backgrounds who examine and use experiences of illness and death to
discuss and explore the methods and applications that allow us to get the most
out of these rich and powerful sources of evidence.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Dr Julie Ellis, University of Sheffield

(http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/staff/staff-profiles/julie-ellis)

Dr Jonathon Tomlinson, NHS The Lawson Practice

(https://abetternhs.wordpress.com/about/)


Call for Papers:

The BAAL Health & Science Communication SIG invites abstract proposals for
20-minute presentations addressing the themes of the workshop. We are
particularly interested in contributions that discuss what we can learn from
lived experience and first-person narratives, be they fictional or not, as
well as how we can make the most of them. We are also keen to build
theoretical and methodological bridges between the academic disciplines of
linguistics, medical humanities, and health and social care and healthcare
policy and practice, so encourage contributions that showcase different
methods of analysis and/or different contexts of application.

Submission details:

Deadline for abstract submissions: 19 September 2016

Abstracts should be no more than 300 words including references.

Please send abstracts to Zsófia Demjén: zsofia.demjen at open.ac.uk.




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