7th Global Conference: Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore the processes by which we attempt to create meaning in health, illness and disease. The project will examine the models and metaphors we use to understand our experiences of health ...

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore the processes by which we attempt to create meaning in health, illness and disease. The project will examine the models and metaphors we use to understand our experiences of health and illness (looking particularly at perceptions of the body), and to evaluate the diversity of ways in which we creatively struggle to make sense of such experiences and express ourselves across a range of media.

While this is an open call for papers, papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on any of the following themes;

* the 'significance' of health, illness and disease for individuals and communities; the factors which influence our perceptions of health and illness experiences

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