{"id":178,"date":"2010-07-30T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T12:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=178"},"modified":"2010-07-31T21:26:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:26:40","slug":"language-in-health-care-inspiring-or-dispiriting16th-17th-september-2010-woodbrooke-college-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2010\/07\/30\/language-in-health-care-inspiring-or-dispiriting16th-17th-september-2010-woodbrooke-college-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Language in Health Care: Inspiring or Dispiriting?&#8221;16th-17th September 2010, Woodbrooke College, Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a small, participative, interdisciplinary conference for users, professionals and academics\u00a0organised by Think About Health, a network committed to doing collaborative \u2018intellectual plumbing\u2019 in the NHS.\u00a0 Key note speakers include Femi Oyebode (poet and psychiatrist) and David Fuller (emeritus professor of English).\u00a0 Other contributions from Angus Clarke (clinical geneticist), Deb Lee (paediatrician), Martyn Evans (professor of medical humanities).<\/p>\n<p>It will explore the different languages, clinical, technical, managerial, political, colloquial and other, that flow around the NHS, and their effects and implications for health care and those who plan, offer and receive it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>What languages are used in the contemporary NHS and why? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Who uses which languages, in what contexts, and to what effect? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Are some languages more inspiring and helpful than others?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Are the various languages used compatible with each other, or do they represent different world views and life orientations?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Do some languages mislead and unhelpfully distort care and working life?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Does it matter whether the sorts of languages used are \u2018truthful\u2019 and \u2018beautiful\u2019?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Is there a need for new and different kinds of languages to be used?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Would aesthetically pleasing language produce better, more helpful care relationships? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Are language and health care directly, or only tangentially, related to each other?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Is there a place for non-instrumental and non-technical language in health care?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alongside plenary presentations, there will be structured, small group discussions around themes. Short contributions to the conference will be made by practitioners and users to ensure discussion is earthed in the everyday life of the NHS. \u00a0A final plenary will draw together the issues discussed, with a panel of leaders from academic disciplines and health care professions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Registration<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To ensure your place at the conference please apply before the 1st September 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About the Speakers and Contributors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Plenary speakers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Femi Oyebode <\/strong>is Professor of Psychiatry at University of Birmingham, Consultant Psychiatrist , National Centre for Mental Health, The Barberry, Birmingham, and Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist to Birmingham Women\u2019s Hospital and Birmingham Dental Hospital.\u00a0 He has also been a service director.\u00a0 In addition, he has a substantial interest in medical humanities and is a published poet.\u00a0 He recently edited <em>Mindreadings: Literature and Psychiatry<\/em> (London, RCPsych Publications, 2009). \u00a0So he is a skilful user of many different kinds of language.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Fuller <\/strong> is Emeritus Professor of English and former Chairman of the Department of English Studies in the University of Durham. From 2002 to 2007 he was also the University\u2019s Public Orator. He trained as a musicologist and has written on Jacobean stage music, on opera, and on ballet. His current research is on Marlowe and Shakespeare in modern performance.\u00a0 As a University manager, as well as being a user and critic of words, David has many insights into the ways that languages are used in institutions.\u00a0 He has lately become involved in the work of the Wellcome Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham.<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Other contributors and panellists will include<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Angus Clarke \u2013 clinical geneticist, Cardiff<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Edgar \u2013 philosopher at Cardiff University<\/p>\n<p>Martyn Evans \u2013 professor of humanities in medicine, Durham<\/p>\n<p>Deb Lee \u2013 consultant physician, Cumbria<\/p>\n<p>Jane Macnaughton \u2013 GP, medical and professor in medical humanities, Durham<\/p>\n<p>Richard Warner \u2013 nurse consultant, Gloucester<\/p>\n<p>For further details, application forms etc see: <a href=\"www.thinkabouthealth.org \">www.thinkabouthealth.org <\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a small, participative, interdisciplinary conference for users, professionals and academics\u00a0organised by Think About Health, a network committed to doing collaborative \u2018intellectual plumbing\u2019 in the NHS.\u00a0 Key note speakers include Femi Oyebode (poet and psychiatrist) and David Fuller (emeritus professor of English).\u00a0 Other contributions from Angus Clarke (clinical geneticist), Deb Lee (paediatrician), Martyn Evans [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2010\/07\/30\/language-in-health-care-inspiring-or-dispiriting16th-17th-september-2010-woodbrooke-college-birmingham\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-poetics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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