Stomach Ache Network: Curating with Guts in the Medical Humanities
Description
The gut and microbiome loom large in the popular and scientific imagination, and have been at the fore of new understandings of mental distress and behaviour change. But epidemiological research suggests that complex, chronic and undiagnosed gut issues are rising exponentially around the globe. Stomach Ache explores how this widespread digestive dysregulation illuminates the gaps between cutting-edge science and everyday lived experience.
It asks three key questions:
- How do people living with complex, chronic and undiagnosed gut issues think creatively and adaptively in response to their symptoms, when medicine is unable to offer a linear pathway toward treatment and cure?
- What new definitions of medical and social inequity arise in this disconnect between gut science and lived experience?
- How might these formulations help one complicate representations of lived experience in curatorial and artistic practices, leading to new ways of framing lived experience as a site of adaptation and creative agency?
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Founding year
2022
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Northern Network for Medical Humanities (NNMH)
The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR) is an interdisciplinary group which acts as a hub for academic researchers in the medical humanities as well as practitioners, artists and … read more about Northern Network for Medical Humanities (NNMH)
University Of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
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2023-10-24 10:12:43