Tag: poetics

Medical anthropology applied to education in socio-health professions: From the enchantment of technology to the enchantment of the encounter

Post author Viviana L. Toro Matuk and Stefano Fontana
Post date January 27, 2021

This article is part of the following series: Working Definitions: Making and Unmaking “Medical Anthropology” around the World

“If you want to understand what a science is, you should look for the first instance not at its theories and its findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it, you should look at what the practitioners of it do,” wrote Clifford Geertz (1973, p.311). To contribute to the continuous redefinition of medical anthropology, we will present …

Tags care, doctor-patient relations, encounters, health professions, Medical Anthropology, pedagogy, poetics

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Being Psychotically Adept— Placing Change, the Poetic Self, and Community Arts Together

Post author Luke Kernan
Post date November 10, 2020

This article is part of the following series: Reworking the Cognitive Bias

For some time now, I have been volunteering at a local mental health clinic known as Foundry. One of the activities I have become involved in at the clinic is a weekly drop-in arts therapy group for clients. As part of my volunteer work, I have been shadowing Noriko, one of Foundry’s staff, in order to learn how to facilitate …

Tags community arts, creativity, madness, mental illness, poetics, Youth