Post by HLTD50 student Riya Garcia The first film screened at this year’s International Health Film Series & Expo (IHFSE) at UTSC was a great hit. On March 1, 2018, the audience engaged in critical thinking about the multiple issues raised by this Toronto-based documentary. Faceless (2012) illustrates patients’ daily life experiences in an inpatient… Read More
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 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