International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a lecturer in critical theory in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at The University of Nottingham (UK). I am the Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Theory and Director of MA Programmes. I have research interests in continental philosophy, postcolonial theory and psychoanalysis. I am also a trainee psychoanalyst in a Lacanian orientation with the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London. I work clinically in the area of addiction, primarilly with gamblers. I would welcome links with anyone who is interested in introducing theoretically-informed critique into debates about the politics of health and healthcare. 

I have a mixed history including trauma and mental health diagnosis. My achievements, despite no career as yet, includes involvent in various volutary groups and obtaining an Open University degree in subjects of Health &b Social care. My earlier hope was to become an Occupational Therapist but though I now at last have the entry qualifications it might better to be able to entre the job market before I reach retirement age - though that (without concern to me personally) is ever shifting back. 

Harry Yi-Jui Wu is Assistant Professor at Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong. He was trained as a medical doctor before switching his career to humanities. In 2012, Harry obtained his DPhil in History from the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University. He has taught in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Harry has published with several important journals in the field of history of medicine and STS (science, technology and society). His current interests include narratives and the ethics of mental health in Chinese speaking worlds, One Health initiatives in East Asia and the development of the care for the dying in Chinese contexts.

I did master at Oxford University and am doing PhD in mental health and Social Policy. I have got Doctor Practice Certificate and Doctor Qualification Certificate.

Harry Yi-Jui Wu, MA, MSc, MD, DPhil, is Assistant Professor in Medical Humanities jointly appointed by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He received his medical degree in Taiwan in 2004. Before pursuing his career in humanities, he briefly worked at Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei as a resident doctor in psychiatry. From 2005 to 2012, he went on studying psychoanalysis at the University of Essex and the University of Oxford, where he was Clifford Norton Student (Fellow) in the history of science at The Queen’s College. Before joining Nanyang Technological University, he was doctoral fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and postdoctoral fellow in humanitarian studies at The University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Wu leads medical humanities workshops at LKC School of Medicine. Apart from teaching, Dr. Wu’s research work deals with the humanitarian intervention of psychiatric sciences regarding the aftermaths of the Second World War and the anxiety surrounding the indeterminable time of postwar worldwide rehabilitation. Apart from preparing his first monograph on the social history of international classification of psychiatric diagnoses, he is now conducting a project on issues of ‘manufactured mental disorders’ in historical and contemporary China.

Brian is an MD/PhD graduate and psychiatry resident

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Born in Zurich, Switzerland. Studies of art, HEAD, Geneva, art therapy, L'Atelier, Geneva, MSc in mental health: Psychological Therapies, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Currently doing a research PhD in arts and health at the University of Derby, UK. My supervisor is Professor Dr Susan Hogan.

The focus of my PhD research is related to the possible symbolic representations of the self via the topic of the house in various cultures (fieldwork in Wil, Switzerland, Paris, France, Vienna, Austria, Eindhoven, Holland and Tokyo, Japan) and to see whether house representations may additionally point to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder symptoms. The integrated fields of my qualitative phenomenological research integrate notions of art, art therapy, architecture, anthropology, cultural studies, phenomenology, and sociology. My interest and focus of my research regarding mental health is to investigate mental suffering from a 'healthy' perspective, that is via architecture theory, considering the notion and impact of 'space' in societies hence to not 'only' focus on the psychopathological, or 'ill' side of life.

I currently live in France nearby Geneva where also my studio and art therapy practice is located.

Adarsh Yadav is a PhD student at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter. Her PhD project aims to contribute to the existing scholarship around ‘care’ through an exploration of South Asian fiction. The reflections, constructions, and critiques of ‘care’ as a practice will be shaped by co-reading with people with lived experiences as patients and caregivers (sometimes both).

Chrys Yates joined Mayo Clinic in Florida in August, 2011 as Program Coordinator for the Center for Humanities in Medicine. Prior to coming to Mayo, Chrys was Associate Director of Education and Public Programming at The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, FL. Chrys has more than 15 years of experience in the field of art education and arts in medicine. In 2001, Chrys co-founded Art Connections in Healthcare at The Cummer, a museum based program integrating the arts into healthcare facilities throughout North Florida, including Mayo Clinic. Chrys was a member of the first Community Advisory Board for Mayo Clinic in Florida’s Center for Humanities in Medicine from 2001 to 2006.