Introduction: Spatial Perspectives and Medical Humanities

Atkinson, Sarah; Foley, Ronan; Parr, Hester

doi:10.1007/s10912-014-9319-z

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“…Hence, following Atkinson et al (, p. 4), the paper traverses health, emotional, environmental and political concerns, and works with diverse concepts and literatures in a manner that allows for multiple entry points and connectivities surrounding the topics of creativity, mortality and “survival”. This has produced a varied, holistic and perhaps unusual account of breast cancer and here there is appreciation that the aesthetic can accommodate “a diverse set of volatile ideas” (Hawkins & Straughan, , p. 19).…”

Section: A Creative Methodology: Making Autobiographical Bricolagementioning

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“…An aesthetics of precarity can thus create a space for a critical stance, to enable “a way of inhabiting space, a particular location, a way of looking and becoming” (hooks, , p. 122). It is a way of knitting together the mind and body, but not simply through a “(re‐)integration of that which has become fragmented, a return to wholeness and unity of body, mind and spirit” (Atkinson et al., , p. 2) – for such an ontological security and completeness is impossible once death has been glimpsed – but it is rather an intimate way of “opening one's being to the world” (Sherry & Schouten, , p. 223), a way “to keep on living until you feel alive again” (Madge, , p. 223). Indeed, through precarious creativity one can assert existence, “survival”, life itself, while still “attending to the realities of death that are always on the horizon of life” (Ehlers, , p. 346).…”

Section: Precarious Creativity: Becoming Less Uncomfortable With the mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer: The enlivening potential of autobiographical bricolage for an aesthetics of precarity

Madge

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper is located at the intersection of scholarship on creative geographies and geographies of dying, death and “living on” (survival). It explores the intimate experience of breast cancer through the practice of creative bricolage which uses autobiographical poetry and photographs. Employing a roving writing strategy that allows for multiple entry points and connectivities surrounding the complex meshworks of precarious cancer survival, the paper traverses health, emotional, environmental and political concerns. In so doing, the paper makes three key contributions: first, in considering how a creative sensibility might bring more visceral, emotionally sensitive and politically embedded accounts of death, dying and survival into the realm of geographical visibility; second, in exploring some of the potentials and limitations of using do‐it‐yourself bricolage as a creative practice; and third, in revealing how a geographical mindset, with its attention to multiple intersecting sites and its ability to promulgate holistic relational understanding, can widen the aesthetic terrain of breast cancer beyond dominant tropes of consumerist sentimentality or heroic femininity towards an aesthetics of precarity.

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Section: A Creative Methodology: Making Autobiographical Bricolagementioning

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Section: Precarious Creativity: Becoming Less Uncomfortable With the mentioning

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Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer: The enlivening potential of autobiographical bricolage for an aesthetics of precarity

Madge

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Momentary and in situ engagement with mental health conditions opens up the possibility to gauge the extent to which categories of (dis)ability and bodily capacity arise in specific social and geographical contexts. It acknowledges that no one human being is always (dis)abled in the same manner, but rather his or her bodily potentials and capacities emerge with and through specific social and locational engagements (Leder 1990;Atkinson, Foley, and Parr 2015). Hence, the capacities of the (dis)abled body resonate with the capacities of the spatial situation in affecting the body that unfolds with every new moment (Hansen 2002;Hansen and Philo 2007).…”

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Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation

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In recent years, both within and beyond academic and clinical spheres, medical and health humanities have become increasingly influential. Drawing from interdisciplinary fields in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, medical and health humanities present unique lenses for considering nuanced spaces and lived experiences of health and health care; they also help challenge traditional ways that medicine and health care are understood and practiced. This collection brings together practitioners and theorists working broadly in medical health humanities, asking them both to consider their work as temporally and spatially located and to position their practices in conversation with a growing uptake of humanities methods and methodologies in other disciplines. The work of nine contributors uses these themes as a starting point for thinking about the future of medical health humanities in new and potentially even more productive ways.

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“…We saw some movement but little to suggest major differentiation. There has subsequently been deeper engagement with developments in social theory (Andrews et al ., ; Duff, 2016) as well as a more clearly evident embrace of the humanities (Atkinson et al ., ; Foley, ). Additional concerns have also emerged: scholarship on global health, non‐human health, and critiques of biomedicine and genomics (Brown et al ., ).…”

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Health geography in New Zealand and Australia: global integration or Antipodean exceptionalism?

Moon

Kearns

2019

Geographical Research

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This paper examines the hallmarks of an emergent and distinctive Australian and New Zealand health geography over the last 30 years. Building on an assessment of the early development of the sub-discipline in the two countries, a review of published work reveals the co-presence of local themes alongside connections to more global perspectives associated notably with health behaviour. Further common themes are the influence of year-round exposure to outdoor spaces and the proximity of "blue spaces" to urban centres. However, there are divergences in the evolution of the sub-discipline. A comparison of attendance at the biennial International Medical Geography Symposia (held since 1985) with publications in the journal Health & Place reveals differentially globalised characters. A steady flow of international visitors and appointments to New Zealand universities as well as more apparent connections to the wider discipline of geography contrast with more applied geospatial and public health connections in Australian health geography.

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Introduction: Spatial Perspectives and Medical Humanities

Cited by 9 publications

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Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer: The enlivening potential of autobiographical bricolage for an aesthetics of precarity

Creative geographies and living on from breast cancer: The enlivening potential of autobiographical bricolage for an aesthetics of precarity

Geographies of Medical and Health Humanities: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation

Health geography in New Zealand and Australia: global integration or Antipodean exceptionalism?

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