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Communicating Mental Health c1700-2013
Event Details
Time: September 16, 2013 at 10am to September 17, 2013 at 5pm
Location: University of Birmingham
City/Town: Birmingham
Website or Map: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/r…
Phone: r.i.wynter@bham.ac.uk
Event Type: conference
Organized By: Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Birmingham
Latest Activity: Feb 28, 2013
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Event Description
Building on the success of ‘Complaining about Medicine’ (11/2012), this two-day workshop seeks to broaden this important, but underdeveloped area: communicating medicine and health. The event will help consolidate a new group ‘Social Studies of Medicine’: disparate University of Birmingham scholars researching social aspects of health, with historical, ethical, policy-oriented or medical humanities approaches. Yet the clear aim of this workshop is to widen and deepen interdisciplinarity by exploring how diverse fields are impacting on the rich lineage of communicating mental health, and vice versa.
During the past months, the legislative shifts in health and social care have prompted a lively public debate involving the ‘coming out’ of those who have experienced mental distress. This workshop will consider how past and present experiences and discussions can in future inform everything from art to best medical practice and government policy. The main organiser Dr Jonathan Reinarz (Director, History of Medicine Unit), therefore intends the workshop to include and reflect such diversity: early-career and experienced scholars, service users and clinicians, working in history, ethics, law, philosophy, politics, policy, biography, medicine, psychiatry, literature, theatre, film and technology. The event will facilitate knowledge exchange and promote networks for future discourse across disciplines; in the first instance, it is anticipated to generate an edited collection, delivering a greater reach for the findings and provoking wider thinking about ways of communicating mental health.
Interest has been expressed by scholars from different colleges, including Professor Jean McHale, Law; Professor Lisa Downing, Modern Languages; Dr Jan Campbell, English; Professor Femi Oyebode, Psychiatry; Professors Max Birchwood and Chris Oliver, Psychology; and Ric Bowl, Applied Social Sciences. External speakers will include pioneers in the field, such as: Professor Hilary Marland (University of Warwick), Professor Joseph Melling (University of Exeter) and Dr David Healy (Cardiff University). We will also invite Baroness Elaine Murphy (crossbench peer, Trustee of Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Vice President of Alzheimer’s Society), Professor Mark S. Micale (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Mind and Rethink representatives. The workshop will feature c.22 speakers with a 50:50 balance between external and internal delegates. Further dialogue will be encouraged in an informal evening atmosphere, which proved so valuable to the November 2012 event.
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