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Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine is a literary journal dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of narrative medicine, an interdisciplinary field that enhances healthcare through the effective communication, empathy and understanding between clinicians, caregivers and patients. Our name Intima has a specific resonance in the field: For us, narrative involves the intimate interface between people, who yield and gain from the experience of stories involving the clinical encounter.

 The word itself has an anatomical reality: intima is  the thin layer lining a blood vessel, speeding blood to the heart and brain, an apt analogy for the kind of narratives we publish that speak to the emotions and the intellect, the feelings and facts that engage the senses in stories with meaning and impact..

 

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	©The Art of Anatomy by Khalil Harbie. Intima, Fall 2013

Art - https://www.theintima.org/missionandvison also reminded of Escher and Byte Magazine.

My source: Intima list

Previously: 'creativity' : 'crossroads' : 'narrative'

How is your Odyssey (thus far ...)?

THE ODYSSEY

As a tool for lifelong learning Hodges' model must be capable of providing a structure through which a narrative can woven. A person's career, as in work, is another distinct example. And again the 'health career' through health, illness, physical and mental trials and tribulations is perhaps the prime example. As the example, it forms the basis of myth underpinning the world's cultures, pre- and ancient histories.

Tomorrow, is the day of "Two Odysseys". No: this is not 2001, 2010, 2061 or 3001.

One odyssey, heads off to the South West, to a place where the land ends, apparently. Memories to be made, a story to unfold.

The other, is based on a voyage: an incredible tale, an epic journey - the epic (in the west). This ODYSSEY will be found in the cinema (and not on a phone, TV, PC, laptop ...); and vitally also in an amazing book. Recounting, what was originally the oral tale of Odysseus on his fantastical 10-year journey home after the Trojan War.

Hodges' model provides a structure to weave this narrative, the twists and turns of patients, carers, students and personnel - all the narrative forms.

Image: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_odyssey_2026

See also: The Hero's Journey and Joseph Campbell

125 Years: 1899-2024 Free Issues at Liverpool University Press

2024 marks the 125th anniversary of LUP’s formation and we are pleased to bring you a new selection of free to read journal issues to celebrate.

With one complete issue of each journal available to read for free, this collection captures the breadth and scope of the research that our journals publish, and the growth of LUP from its formation in 1899. We hope that you enjoy reading them.

Visit our Free Issues page to read free content Indexing and Archiving.

Issues included this year

THE INDEXER

In this issue, 39.1, Paula Clarke Bain touches on the experience of reading during a pandemic in her review of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, alongside a final article from a series on active eBook indexes. Gord Ripley and Gordon Adshead offer a tour of their online index database, Libris Canadiana, whilst Peter Rooney discusses the creation of an index for the Mueller report, a highly anticipated US government document that was published without an index. Ælfwine Mischler also explains the complexities of indexing Arabic names, and Walter Greulich continues his series about how to create embedded indexes using Word and, Pilar Wyman reports on the project updating indexing standards in the US.

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ARCHIVES

In this issue, 56.1, C.R.J Currie article discusses tenants’ copies of court rolls in England and Wales before 1400 using research in 38 repositories to analyse 176 copies of seigneurial court rolls, whilst Rory MacLellan analyses a new set of First World War diaries for the Mesopotamia campaign. Mathodi Freddie Motsamayi looks at preserving South African community archives in a context of Ubuntu alongside book reviews by Russell E. Martin, J.P. Salley, Christine Jackson, Tracey Logan, Karen Mailley-Watt, and Arike Oke.

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COMMA

In this issue, 2019.1, discusses the remarkable work of Charles Kecskeméti, head of the secretariat of the International Council on Archives (ICA) for 41 years, from 1957 to 1998, alongside Mandy Banton who explores the problems and solutions of shared archival heritage, reporting on the EGSAH panel at the Yaounde Conference. Wang Xiangnyu and Han Jiabao also undertake research on celebrity archives held by provincial archives in China, whilst Joan Boadas i Raset discusses the management of photographic heritage.

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Alice Burns
alice.burns AT liverpool.ac.uk

On behalf of Liverpool University Press

My source:

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK 

Interactive Radio Drama Training - Theatre for a Change - Online

From: Ryan Borcherding

Learn how to produce Interactive Radio Drama (IRD) for a wide range of gender, SRHR, SGBV and COVID-19 behaviour change and advocacy objectives.

IRD is a unique social and behaviour change communication tool from Theatre for a Change. It has been used in multiple countries since 2010 to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights of marginalised and vulnerable women and girls, with documented results.

IRD enables audiences to call in to the radio station and replace the main character in the radio drama, to show what they could do differently to change the story for the better. It enables behaviour change and advocacy to happen on a large scale. In Malawi, we reach over 550,000 listeners through interactive broadcasts each week.

We are now offering online training in our IRD approach to enable other organisations to use IRD in their gender, SRHR, SGBV and COVID-19 behaviour change and advocacy work.

To view the full course outline, including eligibility requirements, please see www.tfacafrica.com/online-training

For more information, please contact Ryan Borcherding on ryan.borcherding AT tfacafrica.com

Ryan Borcherding

My source:

The Communication Initiative Network

Unheard stories of women - monologues: An opportunity

Would be interested to know if any theatres or creatives would be interested in working with me in giving voice to the untold and often unheard stories of women through a series of monologues? 🥰❤️🌈 #actorswanted #savetheatre #theatre #theater #submissions #monologues pic.twitter.com/g48heZR4OT

— Natascha Graham (@SomeOfHerParts) November 1, 2020

Psyche: Amid the Mind and Stars

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"The Greek origin of the word psyche (breath) is well known but psyche also referred to life as action or as soul, some special force or spirit which entered living creatures. ... It was natural that when psychology and and medical psychology became established with institutions, they would wish for armorial bearings and it was logical that some representation of psyche should be incorporated. ... Some psychiatrists would consider mind to be an epiphenomenon of brain function, many of whose mysteries will eventually yield to scientific and clinical investigation and most would consider the emergent subjective experiences as important in determining behaviour. The current motto "Let Wisdom Guide" is certainly suitable whatever interpretation or meaning is given to Psyche and whatever direction psychiatry may take in the future." p.429,431. James, F.E. (July 1991). "Psyche". Psychiatric Bulletin. 15 (7): 429–31. doi:10.1192/pb.15.7.429

Artist's concept of the asteroid 16 Psyche which is thought to be a stripped planetary core. Image credit: Maxar/ASU/P. Rubin/NASA/JPL-Caltech

Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss  Antonio CANOVA (1757 – 1822) Marble - H. 1.55 m; L. 1.68 m; D. 1.01 mMR 1777 Paris, Musée du Louvre © 2010 Musée du Louvre / Raphaël Chipault

Political mythology: Government pronouncements on psyche?

Mercury: Care in Transit or Transformation?

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Hermes (Mercury) - the messenger Mercury Abducting Psyche © Musée du Louvre/P Philibert.
Public understanding of Science Social Media (or Political)? Patient engagement in clinical records	Data, Information, Knowledge (Wisdom)? Data, Information Law & Regulation Information Governance & Accountability

How to Safely Observe the Sun (Infographic)
https://www.space.com/15614-sun-observing-safety-tips-infographic.html

See also:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/last-transit-of-mercury-until-2032-how-to-watch-livestream/

Jones, P. (2008) Exploring Serres’ Atlas, Hodges’ Knowledge Domains and the Fusion of Informatics and Cultural Horizons, IN Kidd, T., Chen, I. (Eds.) Social Information Technology Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 7, pp. 96-109.

Book: Narrative Economics - "Happy Care-day to me!"

"Stories matter. It's a truism for journalists, but not much for economists. Robert Shiller, the Yale professor and Nobel laureate who predicted the housing crisis and also put behavioural economics on the map, aims to change that in a book dedicated to the thriving field of narrative economics."

Narrative Economics:
How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

narrative medicine

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(My) mental health (My) narrative	(My) physical health "While many economists are still busy creating mathematical formulas to decode and contextualise our supposedly "rational" behaviour -
... people's actions are more often based on human interest stories than hard data." narrative behavioural	(Who owns your story?) economics economics

"Novelty often catches on - Shiller explains how the "Happy birthday" song, which used the same tune as an earlier piece of music, was much more successful because it allows us to place our own name in the lyrics."

Just imagine if there was a tool in health care, social care, education - formative, professional and lifelong learning, that was generic and suited to personalisation whatever the context - whatever the name and story?

My life chances - my health career ...

Rana Foroohar, Stories of value, FT Weekend. Life&Arts, 2-3 November 2019, p.10.

Critique Issue 6: The Wartime Quartet Special Issue, 2019

(Elizabeth Anscombe Iris Murdoch Mary Midgley Philippa Foot)

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Elizabeth Anscombe Iris Murdoch Mary Midgley Philippa Foot	Time
Voices -	Wartime

In June 2019, Durham University Philosophy Society’s journal, Critique, will publish a special edition on the Wartime Quartet – Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Philippa Foot – all of whom were peers and friends at Oxford during the Second World War, going on to become extraordinary philosophers in their own right. Midgley records in her memoir that when the men left for the war, the Quartet were free from the conventions of traditionally male-dominated philosophy. She attributed the Quartet members’ later success to this sudden amplification of their voices.

The members of the Quartet continued to associate, work, and live together long after their undergraduate years. In the thanks, dedications and references of each member’s work you are certain to find the other members too!

2019 will mark the centenary of the group and sees a series of lectures on the Quartet delivered at the Royal Institute of Philosophy – these can be viewed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEQRhXQwUe-1ZKIJmnBvHsw

In consideration of this, the theme for this edition of Critique is the Wartime Quartet. [Up to 26th of May 2019] submissions were sought based on a range of topics on the Quartet, including, but not limited to:

• The work of individual members of the Quartet (e.g. the relevance of Anscombe’s critiques of ‘modern moral philosophy’). 
• The relations between the Quartet’s work (e.g. their shared rejections of the separation between fact and value). 
• The ways in which the Quartet’s work manifests in contemporary moral philosophy, and lasting effects that the Quartet’s scholarship had on the discipline.

This edition of Critique is particularly poignant due to the recent passing of Mary Midgley and will be dedicated in her memory.

Durham is one of the institutional homes of the In Parenthesis project which has a vibrant community of student researchers and interns. For more information see www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk

If you have any questions about the submission process, please feel to get in touch by emailing us at du.critique AT gmail.com or its editor, Sebastián Sánchez-Schilling, at sebastian.a.sanchez-schilling AT durham.ac.uk

n.b. With some editing as submission closed. PJ

My source:
Philos-L "The Liverpool List"
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l
https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL
@PhilosL
@LiverpoolPhilos

Book: The Heartland - Finding and Losing Schizophrenia

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The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia	The Heartland - Finding and Losing Schizophrenia

See also:
https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2019/01/book-review-i-critical-mh-nursing.html


My source: Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London, 31st May 2019.

'Muchness' - Enabling nurses to be more person-centred within their workplace culture: participatory research

Are you a nurse interested in staff well-being? Would you like to be involved in a participatory research study, exploring the idea of 'muchness' (subjective experience of well-being) & how it can be nurtured in the workplace. If so, please visit: https://t.co/XXQjnT8HlI pic.twitter.com/rF7Y9NgcTS

— Kate Sanders (@Kateatfons) April 18, 2019

Butt up against the Boxes...?

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Hodges' model may seem to suggest (as above) that its purpose is to help categorise and put things - concepts - into boxes. While this is true, the model's primary purpose is to support users (and especially learners) to 'see' and reflect upon the (disciplinary) scope of what is being paid attention to and what is not. Ultimately, as we organise our thinking, we can collapse this series of boxes into what will hopefully be a meaningful whole. If this scoping is also conceptual, then the model's two axes also serve to denote implicitly the many oppositions - dichotomies that must also be negotiated (one way or another). This does not represent an appeal to, or for conceptual or information overload. Quite the contrary. We may acknowledge that uncertainties remain, information is missing. It is meaning that counts. What is salient. Meaningful as pertains to the specific context or situation at the time and the sharing of this meaning.

Image: Sisifo rassegnato/Sisyphus Resigned (1983) Copper engraving, 109 x 161 mm

My source: Cuttings, Obituary Jürgen Czaschka (1943-2018), Printmaking Today, Autumn 2018, p.19.

The spread of true and false news online c/o Vosoughi et al.

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psychological well-being trust "Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth. The degree of novelty and the emotional reactions of recipients may be responsible for the differences observed."

TRUE vs FALSE  diversity-bandwidth  epidemiology of news   broadcast dynamics assertions - claims "To understand how false news spreads, Vosoughi et al. used a data set of rumor cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. About 126,000 rumors were spread by ∼3 million people. False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people."

social well-being stories ..... rumors virality social media social networks social bots "We define news as any story or claim with an assertion in it and a rumor as the social phenomena of a news story or claim spreading or diffusing through the Twitter network. That is, rumors are inherently social and involve the sharing of claims between people. News, on the other hand, is an assertion with claims, whether it is shared or not."

POLITICAL polarisation political and economic well-being 'news' = institutional source? "Defining what is true and false has become a common political strategy, replacing debates based on a mutually agreed on set of facts. Our economies are not immune to the spread of falsity either. False rumors have affected stock prices and the motivation for large-scale investments, for example, wiping out $130 billion in stock value after a false tweet claimed that Barack Obama was injured in an explosion (7). Indeed, our responses to everything from natural disasters (8, 9) to terrorist attacks (10) have been disrupted by the spread of false news online."

Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, Sinan Aral, The spread of true and false news online. Science 09 Mar 2018: Vol. 359, Issue 6380, pp. 1146-1151. DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9559

'Lost Luggage': From the many to the one

Lost Luggage, (Cover, goodreads)

Christof, Christophe, 

Christopher and Cristòfol 

- are four brothers – sons of the same father and four very different mothers...

One mother, an English nurse on a cross channel ferry...




The Times, Saturday Review, 25 May 2013, p.17.

Healthy Active Ageing Virtual Global Discussion Forum: Int. Day of Older Persons 2010

Dear Colleagues,

The World Health Organization, Departments of Reproductive Health and Research, Human Resources for Health, University of Iowa Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, and Partners would like to invite you to join Healthy Active Ageing Virtual Global Discussion Forum - 1-12 October 2010.

Join us in creating an interprofessional network involving representatives from health professions, policy makers, programme managers, international organizations/agencies, universities, research institutes and our clients to share our knowledge and experience on issues that affect healthy ageing.

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Share your experience, your opinion on issues that affect us all, as individuals, families and health practitioners. Contribute through this forum to the policy and practice dialogue.

During this twelve day forum you will receive two emails per day; one email to introduce the day’s questions and one daily digest of the contributions. Daily questions will be disseminated within three topic areas:

• Challenges and opportunities to support healthy active ageing
• Sharing of success stories
• Caring for older persons with dementia

Once you have registered you can participate in the forum simply by responding to the daily emails or sending a message directly to ahaa at knowledge-gateway.org

You can also log into http://knowledge-gateway.org/ahaa to browse the archived discussions and resource materials.

For any questions on this Virtual Global Discussion Forum please contact the forum facilitator: 
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Please pass this invitation onto your colleagues and networks.

With kind regards,

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Scientist/IBP Secretariat
WHO/RHR

My source: HIFA2015

Additional links:
Full of Life  - http://www.dwp.gov.uk/policy/ageing-society/full-of-life/
International Day of Older Persons - http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/international-older-persons-day

Concept albums and voice signatures

In .net magazine (Sept 2010, p.42) Jeffrey Zeldman makes reference to the web we grew up with being as obsolete as concept albums. It's true that music distribution has suffered a series of step-downs from the format that previously conveyed the concept album visually. Many LP covers are classics in themselves. The switch from LP record covers, to CD, and then to mp3 ... downloads means concept albums are indeed fewer; but maybe the reduced visual impact means that new concept albums are less noticed too?

Could the concept album experience a renaissance: online? Story telling has never been completely lost. The web and world's media depends on content: the appetite for stories and music is voracious - Hollywood is famished. Successful narratives prove their worth by doing surprising things with concepts that prompt re-telling down the ages. The concepts may change, but the structures and elements of the stories are timeless.

Concepts obviously remain central to making sense of everything: self, others, the world and the future that includes the new web. In Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model we have a concept album. It is a care concept album comprising several snapshots or frames. It is also person-centred.

It has a voice that has its own musical signature, it is unique - that is if the album is truly person-centred and listened to.

.net September also includes a brief interview with the creators of The Specials website, which takes the form of a docu-soap about five friends with learning disabilities.

When we listen stories can be told:

great things can follow.

Animated Minds - teaching resource

Animated Minds is a series of short animated documentaries which use real testimony from people who have experienced different forms of mental distress. A single aim underpins all the films: to help dispel myths and misconceptions about ‘mental illness' by giving a voice to those who experience these various difficulties first hand.

http://animatedminds.com


My source - post by:
Jill Anderson: j.anderson at lancaster.ac.uk
Mental Health in Higher Education jiscmail list

Drupal musings 6: Content types - Reflection!

Does anyone have any experience in using established models of reflection in:

• education (nursing, public health, information technology)
• practice
• therapy
• supervision
• carer support
• eHealth
• ... ?

If so please get in touch [h2cmng at yahoo.co.uk].

In its initial downloaded state Drupal has two content types:

1. story
2. and page.

The option then is to use these which would be rather limiting. Add to these two by enabling other core modules. Drupal administrators can extend the core functionality by adding other modules which provide new content types.

You can also roll your own. A key content type for the new site is one that uses the health career model to facilitate - reflection - one of the original purposes for the model.

This also provides an opportunity to adopt a model of reflection that is itself supported by research. This may be Gibbs:

• Stage 1: Description of the event
• Stage 2: Feelings and Thoughts (Self awareness)
• Stage 3: Evaluation
• Stage 4: Analysis
• Stage 5: Conclusion (Synthesis)
• Stage 6: Action Plan

John's Model of Structured Reflection

• Aesthetics – the art of what we do, our own experiences
• Personal – self awareness
• Ethics – moral knowledge
• Empirics – scientific
• with its Cue Questions

Smyth’s Framework for Reflection on Action

• Activity
• Inform (Analysis)
• Confront (Self awareness)
• Reconstruct (Evaluation and Synthesis)

There are many others. ...

Once the hedgehog-headlights glare has passed, this is going to be a really interesting project. There must be a way to link one (or more) of the above with each of h2cm's care (knowledge) domains. There must be a way to create a first version that can be extended and support other content types. The possibilities are really exciting - hence the glare (reflected of course!).

More lines - scribed in SF

I've just finished and greatly enjoyed reading Greg Bear's EON which includes:

There are an infinite number of alternatives to the Way, each originating in an alternative world-line, yet reaching beyond that world-line. Until now, Way researchers have not known quite how the alternate Ways were stacked or arranged, or indeed whether they could even be considered real. Since the Way intersects a large number of alternative world-lines - perhaps all - could there be more than one Way?

The variety of emotions available to a reconfigured human mind, thinking thoughts impossible to its ancestors . . .

The emotion of -*-, describable only as something between sexual love and the joy of intellection - making love to a thought? Or &&, the true reverse of pain, not "pleasure" but a "warning" of healing, growth and change. Or (^+^), the most complex emotion yet discovered, felt by those who consciously endure the change between mind configurations, and experience the broad spectrum of possibilities inherent in thinking and being.
pp. 492-493. Gollancz, paperback, 1985.

According to the cover I note that Mr Bear is married to the daughter of Poul Anderson an author who also figures in my (dated!) SF collection. A favourite is Tau Zero which I also recently re-read and passed-on. As to the quotes above I will let them stand for themselves. ...

16th Int. Reflective Practice Conference UK

Reflection in action: June 23-25th 2010

Date: 23-25 June 2010 (3 day event)

Venue: Bedford campus, Bedford, MK41 9EA, UK.

This cutting edge conference was conceived in 1994 as a forum to enable health care professionals undertaking study at the University of Bedfordshire to share with a wider audience how reflective practice had enabled development of both self and clinical health care practice. Since that event, the conference grew rapidly into an international conference hosted by different organisations world-wide.

In 2010 the conference, for the first time, becomes truly inter-professional spanning the breadth of the University’s portfolio from business to midwifery, from theatre to social work, from psychology to sports science and many places in between. What unites these professions is a common interest in reflective practice as professional practice, education and research. It makes a difference.

We live our lives through stories not theories. Through stories we find meaning and grow. It makes sense then that we teach and learn through stories and in doing so, pay attention to theories that meaningfully inform our lives no matter the nature of our practice.

Reflection in action

Convened by Prof Christopher Johns, University of Bedfordshire, this conference aims to engage individuals from multiple disciplines including health, education, business and creative sectors.

Call for papers

Click here (no longer) for more information.

How to submit abstracts

Please send your abstracts to ....

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It would be marvellous to co-author a paper for this or a similar conference. Hodges' model is ideal as a reflective resource, being one of its original purposes. Something for me to reflect on currently is World Usability Day.