Post by HLTD50 student Kris In my investigative work as a health humanities student, I have witnessed countless representations of illness that have inspired my thinking. Using Arthur Frank’s teachings (click the “Arthur Frank” tag below or click here, here, or here for other summaries of Frank’s work on this blog) in order to begin… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student hhhipster Alex Boya’s short film Focus is a one-minute representation of the experience of attention deficit disorder (ADD) through the arts, specifically, through short film. From the aesthetic choice of animation and the way the audio and visual elements work together to make meaning, a lot of nuance can be understood… Read More
Post and podcast by HLTD50 student Honourable_Renegade In this podcast, The Honourable Renegade Baron of Kiwi delves into the intriguing topic of Quest Narratives. With reference to Arthur Frank’s The Wounded Storyteller, he introduces the narrative form’s use of the three stages of a quest: departure, initiation, and return. He reflects upon these stages, hoping to explain… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Skylight The voice of the ill person rests in the background of restitution and chaos narratives. However, the voice of the ill-person stands in the foreground of the quest narrative. I am most intrigued by what sociologist Arthur Frank calls “the quest narrative” because it is the only narrative style that… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student T.Kamen Last week in our course HLTD50 we had discussed the restitution narrative. The dictionary meaning is as follows: Restitution (n.) an act of restoring or a condition of being restored: such as a : a restoration of something to its rightful owner b : a making good of or giving an… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Peppermint_Lattes (Content warning: this post includes discussion of suicidal ideation as represented in poetry. Take care.) Depression is strange: it can hit you like a haymaker. I’ve dealt with it myself in times where I had no control over anything else. That’s when depression starts to settle in for me and… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Lily Storytelling is a powerful and intimate way of passing along life experiences. Stories can be shared in confidentiality, told to many individuals, or kept in secret; the common thread in each case being that it is the storyteller who has experienced a situation that has the power to choose to… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student TChainz “Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability” – William Osler Art is the projection of our experiences and ourselves. When I first enrolled in HLTB50, Introduction to Health Humanities, I had a revelation in which I would carry throughout my journey in becoming a Medical Officer… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student hhhipster In our first meeting for HLTD50, near the end of the seminar Professor Charise got us to participate in an activity that involved forming random pairs. Once in a pair, we were tasked with drawing our partner’s face within a given time limit (a couple of minutes), without looking down… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Catastrophe Survivor Having been a bundle of stress-ball my entire life, fear and anxiety, a mental health illness that have affected countless number of people of all ages worldwide, is nonetheless something that I have known and familiarized myself with. That is, the fear that I am not good enough, or the… Read More