Location: Lecture Theatre, The Richard Doll Building, 11 Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LF
Date: 9am – 2pm, 21st March 2018
“Illness and Language”* is a knowledge exchange event funded by Wellcome Trust, designed to promote dialogue between multi-faith chaplains working at Oxford University Hospitals and academics interested in religious themes within medical humanities.
Programme:
9-9:40 Professor Jane Macnaughton ‘Listening to what is not said: intersubjective relations in the clinical consultation’
9:50-10:30 Dr Neil Vickers ‘The Other as a metaphor for the self: stigma and illness’
10:40-11 Coffee
11-11:40 Dr Katherine Southwood ‘Job’s tortured body and the language of divine assault’
11:50-12:30 Dr Louise Lawrence ‘Blind Spots and Metaphors: Refiguring Sightless Characters in the Gospels’
12:30 Lunch
* CPD applied for. To secure your place on this event please email Katherine Southwood.