Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Narrative Dimensions of Health and Illness
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3420-16-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 15/06/2016

Date and time	24.10.2016, at: 09:00 - 26.10.2016, at: 16:00
Regular seats	15
Course fee	4,680.00 kr.
Lecturers	Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox
ECTS credits	3.70

Contact person	Michelle Aagaard Larsen E-mail address: mila@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). Special rules apply for research year students enrolled at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: a. Insight into differing conceptions of embodiment, health and illness b. Explain the role of narratives in health care c. Analyse the relationality of teller and listener d. Demonstrate the use of creative writing in health and illness studies e. Access patients' experiences through their narratives Content “Narrative Dimensions of Health and Illness” explores two aspects of narrative theory and methods in relation to embodiment: 1) the narrative elements of a person’s relation to his or her body, health, illness, and health care; and 2) the dividends of narrative practice in clinical work, education, and research in health care. Since these two meta-themes are intricately related and co-constructed, they will be addressed in tandem in each of the three days of the seminar. The structure of the seminar enacts some of the foundational principles of narrative medicine as it informs intellectual, pedagogic, and investigative work in the field: - Day 1: Intersubjectivity & Relationality explores the obligatory and ethical contact between writer and reader, teller and listener, patient and clinician, subject and researcher. All of these relationships, if effective, are built on an intersubjective field of relation, one singular person with another singular person. Narrative clinical practice repeats these ethical and readerly dimensions of contact. The “narrative ethics” of literary theory and bioethics will be described and examined. - Day 2: Close Reading and Creative Writing displays the methods used both in the classroom and in clinical work. During this session, participants will perform close readings of a selection of literary or clinical texts and creative writing in the shadow of the text examined. The collaborative activities of becoming one another’s readers will set the stage for discussions of the discovery potential of writing, the narrative risks of exposure, and the requirement that the writer/teller have a reader/listener. - Day 3: Beyond Dualism: The Phenomenology of Embodiment brings the works of such phenomenologists as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gaston Bachelard, Richard Zaner, and Havi Carel to bear on narrative medicine work. Patients’ articulations of their lived experiences of illness provide the primary texts for considering both the challenge of fitting language to embodied states and the duty of clinicians to find access to patients’ experience, even if it exists outside of language. The chasms between patients’ and clinicians’ conceptions of illness will be discussed, as will narrative medicine means of bridging those chasms. The theoretical foundation of the course draws primarily on the work of Dr. Rita Charon. The readings for the seminar will be chosen from Charon's 2008 Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (Oxford Univ Press) and from the forth-coming The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford Univ Press). Additional readings from scholars and clinicians of narratology, literary theory, and clinical practice may be assigned as well. Participants Participants are PhD. students whose scholarly work explores embodiment, the phenomenology of health and illness, the narrative structures of illness narratives, or narrative perspectives on particular illnesses or patient groups. At the same time, PhD. students doing research in health/illness topics that adopt narrative research methods are also invited. Language English Form Lectures in the morning, student presentations and discussions in the afternoon. Course director Assistant professor Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (email: knox@sund.ku.dk) Teacher Dr. Rita Charon (MD & PhD), professor of clinical medicine and director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York City, USA Course secretary Michelle Aagaard Larsen (email: mila@sund.kudk) Dates October 24th-October 26th 2016 (three days in total) Course location CSS, Department of Public Health Section for Health Services Research Øster Farimagsgade 5 1014 Copenhagen K Registration: Please register before June 15st 2016 Admission to PhD students from Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the rules in force. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrollment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students) If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

Course title: 3420-16-00-00 Narrative Dimensions of Health and Illness

Date: 24.10.2016, at: 09:00 - 26.10.2016, at: 16:00

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