@_cocoalas

English Lit PhD from @LLCatEdinburgh. Associate Editor @the_polyphony. Research in Contemporary Life-Writing and Narrative Medicine.

 Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined April 2020
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#DurhamGlobalWeek #DUGlobalWeek We are also developing the “Intercultural Dialogue Dispatch” theme at @the_polyphony
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Super excited! Do tune in and join the conversation with @the_polyphony editors on publishing, editorship, outreach and engagement in the #medhum! #nnmhr2023
Dr Chase Ledin@chaseledin20 Apr 2023
Wee reminder that @AnnaFranJam, @_cocoalas, @AlyFixit and I will be speaking about @the_polyphony at #NNMHR2023 tomorrow from 14:30 to 16:00. Please bring your questions and ideas - and come learn more about how you can contribute to the critical medical humanities! @NNMHRmed
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Exploring its relation to poetry, @DrJamesMcGrath celebrates slowness as something of neurological and social importance to autistic people.
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#SleepAwarenessWeek While so much has been done in the Western context, I am curious about how we can attend to #sleephealth in other social context. Here, Brigitte Steger brings us insights into sleep vulnerability in Japanese tsunami shelters.
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This broader “Intercultural Dialogue Dispatch” theme invites guests from different cultural and national backgrounds to critically examine the centrality of medical humanities in the UK and North America.
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We hope to support health humanities researchers and healthcare practitioners from or working on under-represented cultures in building their own voice and increasing their visibility in the international arena of medical humanities. Interested in writing for us? DM me!
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Nicole Xuan Chen@_cocoalas28 Feb 2023
Replying to @MarbledMayhem
@MarbledMayhem interlaces poetry and prose to investigate conceptions of care and pride around disability and identity. Also excited to introduce in this post the newly published Not Without Us, the 1st Singapore critical disability studies collection! @ksvictorzhuang
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Aly F@AlyFixit31 Jan 2023
Are you an arts practice-based #MedicalHumanities (or adjacent) researcher? Want to write for @the_polyphony about it? Please get in touch - looking to start/expand conversations about arts practice and methodology in the field. So much great work going on atm!
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What an amazing experience working with Dawn! Want to know about the accessibility and inclusivity of the Calm Room? What sort of gift of empowerment and healing can we take from the autistic realm? Give it a read!
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So I’m commissioning posts exploring #RareDisease and East Asia for the World Rare Disease Day Feb 2023. Key debates, history, stigmas… Please share this with people who might be interested in writing one, or DM me!
Nicole Xuan Chen@_cocoalas3 Jan 2023
The Intercultural Dialogue theme of @the_polyphony invites guests from different cultural & national backgrounds to critically examine the centrality of #MedHum in the UK and North America. We hope to introduce concepts and narratives about #MedHum in under-represented cultures.
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The Intercultural Dialogue theme of @the_polyphony invites guests from different cultural & national backgrounds to critically examine the centrality of #MedHum in the UK and North America. We hope to introduce concepts and narratives about #MedHum in under-represented cultures.
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What a rewarding year at @the_polyphony! I have been inspired by our amazing contributors and learned so much from my colleagues about editing & communication & intercultural collaboration. Excited for another year of great adventures!
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I passed my viva two weeks ago and received the award of PhD degree today! Four years exploring embodied life-writing via the lenses of #medhum, #intermediality, and the art of conversation, it is finally official! Extremely proud of myself and grateful!
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Monika sketches the terrain of #dementia #narratives in German-language literary works and argues that they can “produce a new way of conceptualising dementia and contributes to a better understanding of individuals with dementia”.
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What can we learn from historical archives & medical anecdotes? With her critical reading on two stories about diabetes, Gu discusses the tension between the diagnostic criteria created by biomedicine and the patient’s subjective feelings and bodily messages.
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What is the role of narrative in #end-of-life care? I share my thoughts on this topic and our practice of hospice doula in China.
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Nicole Miglio@miglio_nicole6 Sep 2022
I’m beyond excited to announce this! I co-organized this wonderful workshop at @UofHaifa 😍 Scholars from around the world will gather in the beautiful Haifa for discussing the topics of pregnancy and childbirth in philosophy, law, social science ⭐️
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N D Matthews@DrNDMatthews5 Jul 2022
Replying to @RoisinFlood
The obligation to keep doing more and more with less and less people in academia is a real mental health issue. “Doing more but it better” isn’t a really good long term solution I think. Maybe for some but that tends to raise the bar for everyone.
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