International Health Humanities Network Membership
Philip Glennie
I am a graduate of the English Ph.D. program at The University of Western Ontario in Canada. I currently work in a volunteer capacity as a Program Coordinator with The Public Humanities @ Western, an intiative designed to forge collaborative partnerships between Western's Art & Humanities Faculty and the surrounding community of London, Ontario. A link to this initiative's website can be found here.
I am particularly interested in the intersections between the humanities and medical care. In Septermber of 2011, I defended my doctoral dissertation, titled "Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism," which tracks the historical rise of pharmaceutical approaches to mental and spiritual illness through early to mid-twentieth century literature. A link to my dissertation can be found here.
Since 2011, I have also worked as a proposal manager for numerous information security companies seeking work contracts with Canadian healthcare organizations. Through this experience, I have become deeply interested in changing attitudes toward healthcare funding and policy, particularly as these relate to an increasing emphasis on community mental health and qualitiative approaches to caregiving.
Finally, i have used my backgrond in writing as a fundraiser for The Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, a community mental health non-profit based in Toronto's Parkdale Village. I have also published a novel that merges my interest in both humanities research and medical care, titled "Ill Humour." A link to this novel's Amazon page can be found here.
Humanities Subjects
- History
- Linguistics
- Literature
- Modern languages
- Music
- Narrative
- Philosophy
- Poetry
- Religion
- Storytelling
Health Care Areas
- Behavioural health
- Community health
- Coping skills
- Health charities
- Health literacy
- Health policy
- Healthy cities
- Healthy communities
- Public health