A Conference

Phenomenology and the Vulnerable Body: the Experience of Illness

Workshop 6th 7th May 2010

University of Hull, Staff House

Sponsors:



AHRC (as part of: The Concepts of Health Illness and Disease, Research Network



http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/courses/philosophy/ahrc_chid_network.shtml)



Faculty of Health University of Hull



Hull York Medical School (HYMS)



Department of Humanities University of Hull







This workshop brings together an interdisciplinary set of speakers to look at the experience of bodily vulnerability and consider its implications for the understanding of embodiment and selfhood. The resources of phenomenology will be put into conversation with accounts of the lived experiences of those living with illness, pain or other kinds of bodily vulnerability. Contributions will be made from, philosophers, health practitioners, medics and others.







To register:



Please email Dr Minae Inahara (M.Inahara@hull.ac.uk) to reserve a place for this workshop



(There is no registration fee.)







There are some postgraduate bursaries available for this conference . Please contact



Havi Carel [Havi.Carel@uwe.ac.uk]







Programme: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/humanities/philosophy/research/centre-for-research-into-embod/workshops-and-conferences/phenomenology-of-ilness-may.aspx











Papers



Fredrik Svenaeus Illness as unhomelike being-in-the world: Heidegger and the phenomenology of medicine



Katherine J. Morris Living the ambiguity of diagnosis: a case study



Matthew Ratcliffe Phenomenology of Depression



Lisa Folkmarson Käll Pain Embodied in Expressive Space



Havi Carel The Phenomenology of Illness



Deborah Padfield Bodies in Pain (including slides of her work)



Jack Wilson Sartre: illness and the experience of the body



Carol Eastwood Towards a Phenomenology of Endometriosis



Minae Inahara The Sound of Pain: Embodied Subjectivity and Onomatopoeic Expressions in Japanese



Patricia McGettigan Falling: from the perspective of patients



Julie Jomeen Women's lived experience of their pregnant bodies



Michael Gillan Peckitt Limping After Leder and House



Annabel Howe “I’ve been playing in the house of ages”: Dementia, Advance Decisions and Embodied Experience



Lesley Jones & Robin Bunton Wounded or Warriors , deafness, technology and the body



Diane Pitt The Role of Phenomenology in Clinical Diagnostics: the Experience of Women with Heart Disease



Anthony Wilde Levinas and the Vulnerable Body



Stephen Burwood Torture







For maps and directions:



http://www2.hull.ac.uk/the_university/directions_to_the_university/directions_to_hull.aspx



http://www2.hull.ac.uk/pdf/2D_hullcampus_2009.pdf



(Staff House is indicated by the number 53 on the campus map)