International Health Humanities Network Membership

Please see www.nottingham.ac.uk/healthsciences/people/joy.beardsley for further information.  

Soon to be qualified Mental Health Registered Nurse who will take up a post within a secure forensic adolenscent unit.

I'm Georgia Belam, a doctor in the UK & one of the editors of the BMJ Journal of Medical Humanities. 

Before studying theology (Oxford and Tuebingen) I did research in theoretial physics at UCL. I am now Professor of Theology at the University of Nottingham and have research interests in new testament, the relationship between theology and natural science (especially physics), and theology and music. At the moment I am working on a 'theology of mind' where I bring together my interests in theology, philosophy (especially Kant and Schopenhauer), quantum physics, and music. I am also writing a 2 volume work on the theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle and a book on theological anthropology.

Catherine Belling is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University’s medical school. Her research concerns contemporary fears of health care, and relationships between anxiety, narration, and interpretation in fiction, medicine, and bioethics. A Condition of Doubt: On the Meanings of Hypochondria (Oxford, 2012), won the 2013 Kendrick Book Prize (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts). Her essay, “Narrative Oncogenesis” (Literature and Medicine (published by Johns Hopkins U Press).

I am an associate professor at Annaba University (Algeria). I have a Doctor's degree in comparative literature. I am interested in interdiciplianry approaches to literature (medical, environmental, digital, etc.).

I am a University Professor, and I am interested in literature and medicine. With two of my doctoral students (Ms Insaf Sansri and Ms Naima Salah Salah), I am preparing a 4-year reseach project entitled: "Literature about Medicine: Nurturing Clinical Empathy and Holistic Care".

Keywords : clinical empathy, holistic care, hyper-empathy, narrative medicine, art therapy, bibliotherapy, scriptotherapy

I have a professional background in Urban Planning and Healthcare. Currently I am Founder and Executive Director of U Community Health Organization Inc. (UCHO).  UCHO was incorporated in 2012 and received nfp NYS tax exempt status in 2013. UCHO serves the eight county region of Wester New York State in the United States. We are dedicated to educating the public about, and raising awareness of, globally common health needs. We provide services which create a humanitarian connection through the common needs of healthy food, clean water and storytelling. Our community workshops are designed to empower people in their own health through education and awareness.

 After completing a Masters in Comparative Literature in the University of Geneva and working for two years as a French language assistant in colleges in Northern Ireland, I started a PhD in French and Francophone studies at the University of Nottingham in 2012. My thesis is looking at the conceptual and poetic representation of madness and the mad discourse in French literature during the golden age of psychiatry (1830-1870). My research interests are mainly in the links between different discourses on madness and their representation in literature. I have been teaching French language and literature at the University of Nottingham since 2013, for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students (in the case of language).

http://www.cst.edu/academics/faculty/profile/duane-bidwell/