Dr Elizabeth Barrett is a consultant in child psychiatry at the Children's University Hospital, Temple St and Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry at the UCD School of Medicine.
Studio Theatre, dlr LexIcon, Dún Laoghaire
10th March 2017
Listening to patients, telling their stories
Professor James V. Lucey (Trinity College Dublin)
Mining Medicine from Literature
Professor Fergus Shanahan (University College Cork)
Literary Texts and Medical Case Studies
Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
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Dr Elizabeth Barrett is a consultant in child psychiatry at the Children's University Hospital, Temple St and Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry at the UCD School of Medicine.
From Diseases of Modern Life
Both literature and clinical medicine deal with issues such as subjective identity, selfhood, and the social and cultural determinants of health and well-being. This is particularly brought to the fore in the complex relationships between mental illness, the patient, and the physician. At times, this may involve engagement with questions of pain, trauma, language, narrative, and expression, and the disruption and reconstitution of selves. As well as providing insight into these most basic and universal of human concerns, and the attitudes and experiences of people coping with illness or making decisions about their health, how might literature usefully inform the science and practice of clinical medicine?
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