Workshop: Disability and Chronic Illness

DISABILITY AND CHRONIC ILLNESS WORKSHOP

UWE, Bristol
The Box, St Matthias Campus
Friday 30 January 2009

9.30-10.00  Coffee
10.00-11.00 Gideon Calder (Newport), 'Capability, Disability and the
Medical and Social Models'
11.00-12.00 Philip Cole (Newport), 'The Body Politic: Theorising
Disability and Impairment'
Donna Reeve (Lancaster), 'Sick or disabled?: A discussion of the interaction between chronic illness and disablism in the lives of two women with MS'
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00-2.00 Tessa Sanderson (UWE), 'Capturing the Personal Impact of Chronic
Illness'
2.00-3.00 Vicky Long (Warwick), 'Blossoming into 'Real People'? Framing
Schizophrenia as Chronic Illness or Disability in the Context of Social and Economic Rehabilitation, 1945-1980'
 David Turner (Swansea), 'Disability History before "Disability":
Conceptualising Impairment and Chronic Illness in Early Modern England'
3.00-3.30 Coffee
3.30-4.30 Markus Schrenk (Nottingham), 'Can and shall the concept of
disability differ from the concept of chronic illness?'
 Andrew McGettigan (Central Saint Martins, UAL), 'CFS/ME: Can a Phenomenological Approach help?'
4.30-5.30 Julie Anderson (Manchester), 'Constructions and Frameworks;
Historical Reflections on the Nature of Disability and Chronic Illness'

To register:
Please email Dr Havi Carel (havi.carel@uwe.ac.uk) to reserve a place for this workshop (there is no registration fee).

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Dr Julie Anderson
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Manchester Room 2.69 2nd Floor Simon Building Brunswick Street Manchester
M13 9PL
UK
Tel: (44) 0161 275 5947
Fax: (44) 0161 275 5699

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