Intersectionality, Identity, and Health Humanities #healthhum2017
The last couple of days I’ve been attending the Health Humanities Consortium conference in Houston Texas. The experience has been rather mixed for me, causing […]
PhD Ponderings
Living Pathology – an Open dissertation blog
I have decided to brush off the domain I had originally setup for my dissertation. I have much better sense of where the project is […]
Memories of illness
As I delve into my research, I am reading through my cancer blog (http://bcbecky.com) from the beginning. It occurred to me that although I wrote […]
In a post-truth world…
In a post-truth world, I find it rather ironic that I’m studying the lack of a single narrative relating to the patient experience of breast […]
Oppression, doctors, and immigration inspections
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m reading Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. So far, I’ve only managed the first chapter (as well as […]
Oppression?
Maha Bali’s latest blog post on Unpacking terms around equity, power and privilege has got me thinking (actually, I was thinking about it just yesterday, […]
Patient Health Literacies
In Arthur Frank’s (1995) seminal book The Wounded Storyteller, he cautions “On rare occasions when I have taught this book, students’ biggest initial difficulty is […]
Primary versus secondary use of blog data in research
I’ve previously talked about researchers using blogs as data sources in their research. I have argued that since blogs are self-publication, then bloggers should be […]
Critical Digital Health Literacy
Digital Literacy – Read, Write, Participate (e.g. https://learning.mozilla.org/en-US/web-literacy) Digital Health Literacy – “the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from electronic sources […]