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Illness and Language (Chaplaincy workshop, Oxford, 21 March 2018)

posted on February 5, 2025

“Illness and Language”* is a knowledge exchange event funded by Wellcome, designed to promote dialogue between multi-faith chaplains working at Oxford University Hospitals and academics interested in religious themes within medical humanities.

 

Programme

9-9:40 Professor Jane Macnaughton ‘Listening to what is not said: intersubjective relations in the clinical consultation’

9:50-10:30 Dr Neil Vickers ‘The Other as a metaphor for the self: stigma and illness’

10:40-11 Coffee

11-11:40 Dr Katherine Southwood ‘Job’s tortured body and the language of divine assault’

11:50-12:30 Dr Louise Lawrence ‘Blind Spots and Metaphors: Refiguring Sightless Characters in the Gospels’

12:30 Lunch

* CPD applied for. To secure your place on this event please email Katherine Southwood

The event starts at 9am, 21st March, in the Lecture Theatre, The Richard Doll Building, 11 Old Road Campus, Headington, OX3 7LF

 

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