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Dear all,
The Leuven Centre for Health Humanities organises a yearly lecture series and we would love to invite you!
This year’s lecture series explores the entangled relations between nature and health. Bringing together perspectives from medical history, psychology, disability studies, colonial studies, and environmental humanities, the talks examine how ideas of nature have shaped — and have been shaped by — practices of care, control, and coexistence. Topics range from the rise of disposable medical technologies and their environmental costs, to colonial disease management at the cattle frontier, and from the ambivalent role of “nature” in the lives of people with disabilities to contemporary debates on the restorative effects of natural environments. The series also turns to the microbial world, challenging human exceptionalism and rethinking health as multispecies interdependence rather than biological mastery. Together, these lectures invite critical reflection on sustainability, vulnerability, and care, and offer new ways of imagining health in a world where human and nonhuman lives are profoundly interconnected.
Join us online and on campus, at KU Leuven, for a series of inspiring health humanities talks.
You can find more information about the lectures and how to register here:
Health Humanities Lecture Series 2025-2026 —
Leuven Centre for Health Humanities (LCH²)
Best wishes,
Lore Delahaye (she/her)
Administrative Support
KU Leuven
Doctoral School for Humanities and Social Sciences
Blijde Inkomstraat 5, box 3000
3000 Leuven
https://ghum.kuleuven.be/phd
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'Casey Commission tasked with producing plan for ‘national care service’ by 2026
Government remit also asks independent commission to consider services for older people and disabled adults separately and to ensure recommendations stick to government spending settlement
By Mithran Samuel on May 2, 2025 in Adults, Social work leaders
The Casey Commission has been tasked with producing a plan next year for delivering a “national care service” over the course of a decade.
The 2026 report will be followed by a further report, due by 2028, setting out longer-term recommendations for the sector, according to the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) terms of reference for the commission, published today.
The Independent Commission into Adult Social Care, headed by crossbench peer and renowned government troubleshooter Baroness (Louise) Casey, started its work this week.
The plan to set up the commission sparked criticism from social care organisations, after it was announced in January, due to its three-year timeframe being seen as far too long to develop a plan for a sector under under severe immediate pressures and facing significant future challenges.'
continued...https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/05/02/casey-commission-tasked-with-producing-plan-for-national-care-service-by-2026/
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https://www.thetimes.com/comment/letters-to-editor/article/sunday-times-letters-labours-national-care-service-proposal-ghx22kzt2
"'to a T' is an episodic 3D adventure game developed by Keita Takahashi and the uvula team, with a strong focus on character, interaction, story and exploration. Play as a teenager (Teen), with a unique posture just trying to live a normal life in a small coastal town. Explore the town along with the help of Teen’s loyal dog and loving mother. While going to school and contending with bullies, Teen discovers a new ability granted to them by their extraordinary posture, and they start to uncover more about their mysterious lineage."
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Developer - https://uvula.jp/
I have never been as far south as Rio de Janeiro. It would be marvellous to visit Tijuca National Park - Alto da Boa Vista, Rio de Janeiro - RJ.
But then ... 🌍🌎🌏🌐
My source: Tom Faber, In praise of gaming's auteurs. Financial Times, 11 June, 2025, p.18.
'Two new dramas which get inside the emotional realities of dealing with ethical dilemmas. When a confused young man with no I.D. and a Doctor Who fixation is brought into hospital, the staff have clear rules about how decisions can be made on his behalf. But when he starts to make his own wishes clear, are they right to listen?
Starring Gunnar Cauthery, Clare Perkins, Simon Bubb, and Carl Prekopp. With Peter Polycarpou, Gerard McDermott, Jonathan Forbes, James Lailey, Alex Tregear, Susie Riddell and Elaine Claxton. Script Consultant: Jim Blair, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust. Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting.'
My source:
Jim Blair @jimgblair - https://x.com/jimgblair/status/1906993515038429252
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POLITICAL disability^ |
^The Government are deploying AI to figure out:
deadline for submissions: 30th September 2024
I) Examinations of various philosophical perspectives and frameworks for understanding disability, including the social model, the cultural model, the relational model and the capabilities approach.Intersectional analyses, which explore how disability interacts with, and impacts, other social categories such as race, gender identity, sexuality, and class, would be greatly welcomed. Furthermore, contributions could cover a wide array of historical and geographical frameworks, from Ancient Philosophy towards Contemporary Philosophy – not only from a Western perspective.
II) Ethical considerations concerning disability, such as questions related to autonomy, dignity, justice, violence, and the ethics of care.
III) Epistemology inquiries into how disability affects knowledge, perception, and cognition.
IV) Explorations of disability's influence on art, aesthetics, and the perception of beauty.
V) Discussions on disability rights, social policies, and disabled people’s participation or exclusion from citizenship.
VI) Phenomenological analyses of lived experiences, that include the embodiment of disability and the material encounters with the world. Philosophers’ first-person experiences and accounts would also be positively valued in this regard.
VII) Analyses of the role of disability in language, in the discursive realm, in the creation of meaning, and in the construction of metaphors, including the investigation of how philosophical language and theorization could contribute to ableism, disablism, and disabled’s people exclusion.
VIII) Investigation of disability through the lens of humanism and/or its critical stances (Anti-Humanism, Philosophical Posthumanism, Transhumanism, New Materialisms, and so on).
Information
Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2024
Publication of the Special Issue: July 2025
We anticipate that submissions will come both through solicitations and this open Call. Papers should be between 8000 and 10,000 words (including abstracts, footnotes, and references). Only papers in English will be accepted. For further information do not hesitate to contact the editors (brunella.casalini[at]unifi.it; chiara.montalti[at]unisalento.it).
World Health Day 2024
Around the world, the right to health of millions is increasingly coming under threat.
Diseases and disasters loom large as causes of death and disability.
Conflicts are devastating lives, causing death, pain, hunger and psychological distress.
The burning of fossil fuels is simultaneously driving the climate crisis and taking away our right to breathe clean air, with indoor and outdoor air pollution claiming a life every 5 seconds.
The WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has found that at least 140 countries recognize health as a human right in their constitution. Yet countries are not passing and putting into practice laws to ensure their populations are entitled to access health services. This underpins the fact that at least 4.5 billion people — more than half of the world’s population — were not fully covered by essential health services in 2021.
To address these types of challenges, the theme for World Health Day 2024 is 'My health, my right’. ...
"A work by artist Jason Wilsher-Mills is displayed at the Wellcome Collection ahead of the opening of a solo exhibition at the London museum. "Jason and the adventure of 254" reimagines the gallery space as a hospital ward and features huge sculptures, illustrations and interactive dioramas that draw on the artist's experience of becoming disabled at the age of 11.
The exhibition's title alludes to 2.54pm at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, on August 1 1980, when Wilsher-Mills watched from his hospital bed as his parents were told he was suffering from an autoimmune condition brought on by a bout of chicken pox.
The free exhibition opens tomorrow (21st March) and runs until January." p.2.
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Review of the documentary 'Super/Man' at Sundance 2024: Christopher Reeve's life and activism showed beautifully. From playing Superman to his disability, a life journey that brings tears. https://t.co/V8pkd3hqNO #Disability #Accessibility #axschat@JudgeWren @kurtyaeger pic.twitter.com/KrUZkAai3l
— Antonio Vieira Santos (@AkwyZ) January 22, 2024
When the nursing process was introduced in the UK in the late 1970s - early 1980s, the change was resisted to a degree with concern that patients were at risk of being 'processed': assessed, care planned, interventions delivered then evaluated, discharged or re-assessed. ...
play my quality of lifemy quality of care Emotional, Health and Care Plans Teaching Assistant provision continuity of care 'demand' | time my quality of life my quality of care self-care - feeding 23% rise in demand for school transport Human geography 'supply' |
families 'informal carers' needs that can (supposedly) be met at home Government funding crisis social inclusion social capital Care in the community 'demand' | £4bn overall funding gap in children's services Children and Families Act Index of Multiple Deprivation Needs-based funding? Children with special educational needs and disabilites (SEND) Parental resort to specialist tribunal courts: 96% legal challenges successful (2022) National / local taxation 'supply' 'broken' social care market - "dysfunctional" |
"The costs are rising inexorably," he said. "Children are very often being processed rather than looked after."
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"Watch our story
Without big changes to the way we think about social care, we and the people we care about face losing control of our lives and contact with the people and things that make our lives worthwhile. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Watch our new film, narrated by actress, comedian, broadcaster and international disability rights activist Liz Carr and directed by multi-award winning filmmaker Yoav Segal.
View accessible versions, including BSL, subtitles and comic book."
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“Hannah Hodgson takes us to the paradoxical heart of poetry itself: to be held inside a pain both intensified and soothed by the sheer brilliant presence of the poet’s mind.” – Caroline Bird
Hannah Hodgon is an award-winning poet and a palliative care patient. In her compelling debut collection 163 Days, she uses a panoply of medical, legal, and personal vocabularies to explore what illness, death and dying does to a person as both patient and witness.
163 Days is the length of Hannah’s longest period of hospitalisation to date. In this long poem, she probes various truths, personal and medical; truths which clash like a tray of dropped instruments in a silent operating theatre.
The speaker is a teenager on the cusp of adulthood. Doctors struggle to diagnose her complex conditions. Through daily, diary-like poems we see the children’s ward through Hannah’s eyes. It is decked out in primary colours. Volunteer clowns visit. At seventeen she is ‘too old’ to be here, ‘too young’ to move to the adult ward.
The mundanity of hospital life is marbled by a changing landscape of mood, hope and loss. Her symptoms are painful. She has numerous tests and procedures to keep her alive long enough to figure out what’s wrong. A gap yawns between the person she is, and the person in her medical notes.
In ‘Aftercare’, Hannah navigates the worlds of both nightclubs and hospice care as she embarks on a new version of her life as a disabled adult. 163 Days is an important collection, in which Hodgson’s true voice takes poetry into difficult places.
Listen to the BBC radio play adaptation of 163 Days on the New Creatives website here.
My source:
Hannah's book in Kirkby Lonsdale, The Book Lounge 17th February 2023.
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Assistive Technologies for a More Accessible and Inclusive Society is the special theme of ERCIM News No.130, just published at https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/
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The Conference will be hosted by the International Centre for Evidence in Disability
Date: 14 - 17 March 2022
Time: 10am – 12pm GMT each day
Venue: Virtual
COVID-19 has dominated global discourse for the last 18 months as the pandemic impacts everyone, everywhere. There is growing evidence that people with disabilities and their families are particularly at risk during the pandemic, in terms of:
The Conference seeks to bring together people to discuss and debate Disability and COVID-19. The focus will be on new research findings, methodologies and tools and implications of evidence for policy and practice. The focus will include both low-, middle- and high-income settings as well as humanitarian contexts.
Who should attend? All those with a strong interest in disability and COVID-19 are very welcome to attend, and this may include researchers, policy activists, decision- makers and practitioners. People with disabilities are particularly encouraged to submit abstracts and attend.
Please visit our event page for more information
and for more details about abstract submission.
Deadline for submissions: 10th February 2022
International sign language interpreters and live captioning will be available at the event.
If other access needs are required, please email disabilitycentre AT lshtm.ac.uk.
Dear colleagues,
The first issue of the South Sudan Medical Journal for 2022 is on our website here and the contents are listed below.
In it, you will find articles covering seats for disabled people using
pit latrines in Uganda, Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome in
Ethiopia, extra-pulmonary TB in South Sudan, case reports on the double
uterus, ossifying fibroma of the mandible, and our second Back-to-Basics
paper on fever.
See also the Appeal for the Al Sabah Children’s Hospital Resource Centre.
Please share this issue with your social networks; encourage colleagues to join our mailing list and to submit manuscripts to southsudanmedicaljournal AT gmail.com.
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We thank everyone who contributes to SSMJ including our editors
and, especially, our anonymous peer reviewers. Let us know if you are
willing to review or edit articles.
Visit our website to get covid-19 updates for South Sudan and to see our new Guidelines for preparing tables for SSMJ manuscripts.
You can follow us on Twitter@SSMedJournal and our Facebook Group, and find previous SSMJ articles on our website and at African Journals Online (AJOL) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
EDITORIAL
Kind regards,
The SSMJ team
Email: southsudanmedicaljournal AT gmail.com
n.b. I have reduced the number of links from the original email. PJ
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
PG Cert. Ed.
BA(Joint Hons.) Computing and Philosophy - BIHE - Bolton
PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
MRES. e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster Univ.
Live and work in NW England - seeking a global perspective.
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