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

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