'Attentive Writers': Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority. (360G-Wellcome-100717_Z_12_Z)

£5,000

The concept of 'attentiveness' - the emptying of one's self for attunement with the other, and, more broadly, a habit of mental openess and awareness - has rich implications in healthcare, creative writing, and literary, historical, and philosophical scholarship within the related fields of the Medical Humanities and Literature and Medicine . This conference adopts the term attentive writers as evocative of the multitude of both professional and non-professional caregivers - clinical and no n-clinical healthcare workers - whose attention to illness might take narrative form. By bringing the established field of inquiry on the physician as writer into dialogue with current calls for a more inclusive approach to the Medical Humanities, the conference aims to question the authoritative place of the Western - traditionally male - physician in our explorations of the health/humanities interface. The relationship between healthcare, authorship and authority will be addressed through three strands of enquiry: (1) an historical and literary examination of 'attentive writers'; (2) a more devolved interrogation of the field of Narrative Medicine; and (3) an examination of 'attentive writing' as creative practice. This international conference at Glasgow University, aims to stimulate and bring together research and practice (clinical and creative) on this exciting topic.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 5000
Applicant Surname Coyer
Approval Committee ERG11 Society and Ethics
Award Date 2013-01-18T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2012/13
Grant Programme: Title Small grant in H&SS
Internal ID 100717/Z/12/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Megan Coyer
Partnership Value 5000
Planned Dates: End Date 2014-05-22T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2013-08-23T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Scotland