Sleep an under-reported, diagnosed and appreciated aspect of health and wellbeing. Sleep disorder can be under-diagnosed to the tune of 80%, most commonly obstructive sleep apnoea with an estimated 1.5 million suffers being undiagnosed. Sleep… Read More »Sleep and COVID-19 the coming crisis
Coming back from an arduous ICU shift, I change my masks on the street, to tolerate those heavy looks staring at the N95 mask with wrinkles on my face and disheveled hair which referred to… Read More »Stigmatized Hero; Admires and Blames of Healthcare Workers in COVID
Click here to join the webinar on Zoom I spent much of 2020 in bed. I think from this position of horizontality about the coronavirus epidemic – and how such a position might reorient questions… Read More »Epidemic Time: Thinking from a Sick Bed
An insiders perspective from healthcare assistant at a care home. COVID-19 has seen over 116,000 deaths in the UK, with the majority being centred around healthcare setting. Yet, the UK Government has focused the narrative… Read More »Behind the mask: COVID-19 Carers inside perspective.
The Obvious Hidden. A paradoxical term, but directly refers to the hidden truth of death. Today, deaths are vividly on display; real-time dashboards, ceaseless breaking news, online charts and bars of death toll rates among… Read More »Multi-layered cadavers; Invisible griefs. Paradoxical logic of mortality during COVID
Contemporary images of healthcare practitioners(1,2,3,4) depict individuals as faceless . Professional codes mandate that practitioners “make the care of the patient your first concern”(5,6) ; being self-effacing. Healthcare, medical humanities and media discourses increasingly generalise… Read More »Re-Facing the De-faced Doctor; Injustice and the Wounded Healer
This paper examines two main themes. Firstly on the macro-level, it investigates the primary conduit in any relationship: communication. Focussing on doctor-patient communication, my paper hopes to shed light on the gaps within the diagnostic… Read More »Communication, Culture and Affect in the Diagnostic Process
This panel will identify and investigate, through philosophical, cultural studies and historical analyses, the sites and circumstances of shame, shaming, stigma and discrimination during the first 12 months (January-December 2020) of the COVID-19 health crisis.… Read More »Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19
Waiting Times Collective Session: Before Covid-19, and the sudden shutting of doctors’ surgeries to waiting patients, the waiting room had for years enjoyed a contradictory status as simultaneously a site of care and neglect: a… Read More »Waiting Times Collective Session
COVID-19 has amplified feelings of alienation amongst those who learn, teach, provide professional services, and research inside the University. In spite of the uncertainties of life inside the pandemic, institutional demands for the maintenance of… Read More »Ill-being and the University