Poetry and health
In our own words: Poetry and Young People's Health: Renee Liang, Aukland, New Zealand
Poetry in Health Spaces: Rogan Wolf, London, UK
State of emergency: Lise Day, Cape Town, South Africa and Giskin Day, Imperial College, London, UK
The soft cough of death”: traces of TB in the poetry of Norman Nicholson: Alan Beattie, University of Lancaster, UK
The plague of Thebes: an historical epidemic in Sophocles’ drama Oedipus Rex: Antonis A. Kousoulis, Imperial College, London, UK
The concept of syphilis in Greek poetry: retracing unique perspectives: Antonis A Kousoulis, University of Athens, Greece
The Apollo Project: Poetry in Cheltenham Hospital Oncology Unit: Brenda Read-Brown, Tewkesbury and Sam Guglani, Cheltenham
Writing the Memoir for Cancer Patients or Writing to Know Oneself Better: Wendy French, London, UK
Poetic Re-narration and Chemotherapy: Infusing Purpose and Meaning into the End of Life: Susan Sample, USA
The colour of cancer: poetry in palliative care: Wendy French, Raphael Shirley and Vikky Riley, University College Hospital London, UK
Using Poetry in Dementia Care: Simon Opher and Karen Hayes, Dursley, UK
Forgetfulness and ageing: what poetry has to say about it: Dean Gianakos, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
The Use of Poetry to Engage Echoic Memory with People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia: Gary Glazner, USA
Finding a voice for medical conditions: Joanna Sedgwick, UK (signing and deaf poetry) and Laura Salisbury, UK (aphasia)
Illuminating the present: poetry and dementia: Cheryl Moskowitz, London, UK
Matters of the heart: Wendy French and Cheryl Moskowitz, London, UK
De motu cordis. Allusions to poetry in the discovery of the circulation of the blood: John Riddington Young, Bideford, UK
Echo poems: Joseph Gascho, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Walking back to words: poetry from stroke survivors with aphasia: Andrew McMillan, John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Breaking and dealing with bad news: what poetry has to say about it. The Physician: Dean Gianakos, Lynchburg, Virginia, USA; The Patient: Clare Wilmot, Dartmouth, USA
Medicine and poetry: a husband and a lover: Eleni Theocharous MEP, Cyprus
Jealous Mistress: doctors as poets: Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham, UK
Medicine and health in medieval Arabic poetry: Rabie E Abdel-Halim, Liverpool, UK
Substance to symbol: toward the inclusion of great poetry in alcohol addiction recovery programs for the homeless: Robert Randolph, Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, USA
Sharing the journey: rediscovering a lost sense of self with poetry making: Sue Spencer, County Durham
Abortion in 1960s and 1970s American Poetry: Fran Bigman, USA
Mary Kennan Herbert’s Skin Man series: Dennis Linder, Graz, Austria
Show and tell - poetry and illness as “narratives of last resort”: Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, University of East Anglia, UK and Tromsø, Norway
Visualizing and Verbalizing Illness: a Window into the Full Patient Experience?Ryoko Hamaguchi, Johnathan Sataloff and Lisa New, USA
Poetry, metaphor and patient experience: Elisa New, USA; Angela O’Donnell, USA; Johnathan Sataloff, USA; Nora Segar, USA; Rafael Campo, Harvard Medical School, USA; Donald Singer, London, UK
Studies of benefits of poetry for patients: Donald Singer, London, UK
Show and tell - poetry and illness as “narratives of last resort”: Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, Tromsø, Norway
Elegy & Healing: The Poetics of Grief: Angela O’Donnell, USA
“Saturn hath the Left Eare, Jupiter the Right”: poetry and the place of astrology in medicine: John Riddington Young, Bideford, UK
Pills for the Muses: poetry and medical trade in the 19th century: Hugues Marchal, University of Basel, Switzerland
The wounded healer: mental health challenges in the medical profession: Ahmed Hankir, University of Manchester, UK
Refugee Poetics: Analogizing the Loss of Health and Homeland: Ryan Davis, USA
The Case For Ethnographic Poetry: Medical Anthropology and the Suffering of Refugees: Adrie Kusserow, USA
Towards a poetry of global health: Adrie Kusserow, USA; Ivana Viani, USA; Ryan Davis, USA; Maya Catherine Popa, New York City, USA
