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AMH 2011 Conference ‘ The Drama of Medicine’ Parallel papers programme
Parallel 1 Tuesday 12 July 10.30 – 12.00
1a Dramatis Personae: Under the Spotlight
Chair: David Gelipter Ashcroft Room 5
10.30 Mary-Ann Lund University of Leicester
The Physician-Patient encounter in John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
11.00 Allister Neher Dawson College, Montreal
William Clift’s Portrait of Executed Murderers
11.30 Penny Campling & John Ballatt Leicestershire Partnership Trust & The Openings Consultancy
Intelligent Kindness – an alternative narrative in healthcare reform
1b Plays and Plots: Monologues and dialogues
Chair: Paul Dakin Rothley Room
10.30 David Fuller University of Durham
Jean Cocteau, La voix humaine (1930); Francis Poulenc , La voix humaine (1958)
11.00 Ashley Barnes Sheffield Hallam University and Dead Earnest – Applied Theatre Specialists
‘Clearing the air’ and the meaning of forum theatre
11.30 Louise Younie and Catherine Lamont-Robinson University of Bristol
Patient and student voice – dialoguing through the arts 2
1c The stage: 2D or not 2D?
Chair: Sally Dux Ashcroft Room 6
10.30 Bruce Edhouse Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
‘Movies for Medics’: Taking psychiatric medical education to the movies
11.00 Emily Maile and James Akajioyi University of Leicester
‘Movies for Medics’ – student reflections
11.30 Lisetta Lovett Keele University
Special Study Components (SSCs) in the Medical Humanities at Keele Medical School
1d The Stage: Beside Theatre
Chair: Oonagh Walsh Oakham Room
10.30 Rita Wilder-Craig Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto
Poetry in Motion: Stories of Hope and Resistance from the Front Lines
11.00 Leah Salter
“Show me, don’t tell me” (J Moreno) Using drama as a medium for “talking” about mental
health
11.30 Persephone Sextou and Claire Smith Newman University College Birmingham
Applied Drama in Health and Well-being: Beside theatre for sick children (a pilot study) 3
Parallel 2 Tuesday 12th July 14.30 -16.00
2a Dramatis personae: Operating Theatre
Chair: Victoria Tischler Oakham Room
14.30 Catherine Jones University of Aberdeen
“The Philadelphia phlebotomist”: Benjamin Rush, the Yellow Fever and the Rise of Physician
Autobiography
15.00 Philip Shaw University of Leicester
Charles Bell: Surgery, Sentiment and the Drama of War
15.30 Jen Cochrane
Sex and the surgeon: Emotional distance and intimacy in modern medicine and the medical
drama
2b Plays and Plots: Audience participation
Chair: Louise Younie Ashcroft Room 5
14.30 Ashley Barnes Sheffield Hallam University and Dead Earnest – Applied Theatre Specialists
‘Every Interaction Counts’ with patient opinion
15.00 Jenny Stephens
The Drama of Science: The Speckled Monster: Doctors as adventurers in the eradication of
smallpox.
15.30 Anna Sadler University College Falmouth
Artist as Patient: A journey into the Camera as Probe
2c The Stage: The Stage Classroom
Chair: Alan Bleakley Rothley Room 4
14.30 Leo Scrimshaw and Dan Murphy Peninsula Medical School
Prescribing Art in Mental Health
15.00 Claire Elliot University College London
The Medical Past in today’s Practice
15.30 Linda Turner University of Southampton
Medical Humanities in the early undergraduate curriculum at University of Southampton
Faculty of Medicine
2d The Stage: The Healing Theatre
Chair: Ann Borsay Senior Common Room
14.30 Sarah Atkinson, Durham University and Karen Scott, University of Newcastle
Dancing the Curriculum: reconfiguring spaces, literacies and well-beings
15.00 Kirsty Stansfield and Steven Anderson
“Her head is turned towards the window”
15.30 Dan Murphy and Leo Scrimshaw
Enhancing communication skills in alternative settings: medicinal tours of the Eden Project 5
Parallel 3 Wednesday 13th July 10.30 – 12.00 (12.30)
3a Dramatis personae: Practice makes perfect
Chair: Sally Dux Senior Common Room
10.30 Anne Borsay Swansea University
Drunk and disorderly?: Revising the mythology of British hospital nursing c. 1700-1830
11.00 Sian Beasley and Mark Harper Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Progress in medicine: views on medical practice a century apart
11.30 Joanne Winning Birkbeck College London
Speaking the part: towards and understanding of communication in the clinical encounter
3b Dramatis personae: Heroes and villains
Chair: Tony Dux Rothley Room
10.30 Kim Price University of Leicester
‘Divided loyalties’: poor law doctors and medical negligence in the late-nineteenth century
11.00 Radhika Mehr Kings College London
Southey's Warning: Exploring Robert Southey's 'The Surgeon's Warning' as a caveat for
medical practice today
11.30 Nicola Dickson and Mark Harper Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Crossing countries and cultural borders
12.00 Puja Patel Kings College London
The role of literature in understanding how to achieve the status of a good doctor
3c Plays and Plots: First person singular
Chair: Sarah Atkinson Oakham Room
10.30 Corinne Saunders University of Durham
The Drama of affect in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde 6
11.00 Nicola Cooper-Moss Keele University
Cancer between the lines: the representation of cancer in modern poetry
11.30 Esther Cole University of Liverpool
Limitations of Narrative: Informing future narrative approaches to healthcare
12.00 Elizabeth Lowe and Mark Harper Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Once you’re in bed, you’re dead
3d The Stage: Stage expression
Chair: Linda Turner Ashcroft Room 6
10.30 Angela Woods and Bethan Evans Durham University
On the radical potential of the medical humanities
11.00 Alannah Tomkins Keele University
Post Script – the dramatic potential of the medical suicide note
11.30 Aoife Moran and Anne Scott Dublin City University
Living with anxiety: Patients’ experiences of haemodialysis therapy
12.00 Sam Regan de Bere & Richard Ayres Peninsula college of Medicine and Dentistry
Developing clinical sensibility and sensitivity through drama: a view from two curricula 7
Parallel 4 Wednesday 13th July 13.15 - 14.45
4a Plays and Plots: Once upon a time
Chair: Laurie Maguire Senior Common Room
13.15 Zoe Playdon Kent Surrey and Sussex Postgraduate Medical Deanery
Medicine’s original psychodrama: the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
13.45 Anoja Fernando Columbo, Sri Lanka
The Buddhist Jataka stories as a source for psychotherapy and medical humanities
4b Plays and Plots: Rules and Censorship
Chair: Oonagh Walsh Rothley Room
13.15 Tracey Elliott University of Leicester
The ‘best interests’ of incapacitated adults: shifting narratives in medical law
13.45 Esther Stronge University of Aberdeen
A Narrative Approach to Medical Ethics: from theory to practice
14.15 Alex Hillman University of Leicester / Kings College London
Autonomy and compulsory treatment
4c The Stage: Producers and Impresarios
Chair: Jo Winning Oakham Room
13.15 Delia Muir, University of Leeds, and Penny Morris, London Deanery
Co-producing a new story: actors changing roles
13.45 Evette Hunkins-Hutchinson
Deconstruction of the Self: False Reality –Understanding mental illness through African
participatory popular theatre
14.15 Taylor Donnelly
Dreams, Divisions and Delusions: The evolution of madness in musical theatre