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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Medical Humanities Synapsis Writers Retreat
DESCRIPTION:As a set of disciplines\, the humanities face the challenge o
 f how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy v
 erbal categorization such as illness\, pain\, and healing. The
  recent emergence of interdisciplinary frameworks such as na
 rrative medicine has offered a set of methodological approac
 hes to address these challenges. Conceptualizing a field of 
 medical and health humanities offers a broad umbrella under 
 which to study the influence of medico-scientific ideas and 
 practices on society.  Whether by incorporating material cu
 lture such as medical artefacts\, performing symptomatic read
 ings of poems and novels\, or excavating the implicit medical
  assumptions underlying auditory cultures\, the approaches th
 at emerge from a historiographical or interpretive framework
  are different from those coming from the physician’s blac
 k bag.\n\nThe Explorations in the Medical Humanities Series ex
 plores the enigma of how what we write relates back to the e
 xperience of bodies in different stages of health and diseas
 e. Our speakers consider how the medical and health humaniti
 es build on and revise earlier notions of the “medical art
 s.”  At stake are the problems of representation and the
  interpretation of cultural products from the past and prese
 nt through medical models\, and the challenge of establishing
  a set of humanistic competencies (observation\, attention\, j
 udgment\, narrative\, historical perspective\, ethics\, creativi
 ty) that can inform medical practice.
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