The ISIH conference addresses issues of power, practice and ethics in health care.
The conference is a forum for international researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplinary and professional backgrounds employing critical perspectives to discuss problems pertaining to sickness and health in the 21st century.
The deadline for abstract submission has been postponed and abstracts are especially encouraged from the following topic areas:
– Conceptualizations of health and well‐being and their technical and political implications
– The framing of health and disease in the light of new health care technologies
– Adherence and self‐care in self‐administered health care
– Personalized medicine and the management of health risk
– Media, knowledge and ideology in the social construction of risks to the ‘healthy’ body
– Relationships between professional practices and notions of health, treatment and experiences of illness and health
– Critical analyses of professionalising discourses in professional healthcare practices
– Scope of practice and professional boundary work in health care teams
– The social and cultural contexts of health
The keynote speakers are:
Professor Davina Allen, Cardiff University, Wales
Senior Lecturer John Paley, University of Stirling, Scotland
Professor Lorna Rhodes, University of Washington, USA
Professor Mats Alvesson, Lund University, Sweden
Professor Ole Dreier, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
For further information, updates on keynote speakers, submission of abstracts and online registration, visit the website of the conference http://www.isihconference.com/
Research in Faith and Health
Nordic Network for Research in Faith and Health
