Register Now – Webinar 'Narrating Illness: Who Cares?' | 17 March, 11am CET
Join our upcoming webinar, 'Narrating Illness: Who Cares?'
Date: Tuesday, 17 March 2026
Time: 11:00–12:30 (Zurich) | 10:00–11:30 (Maynooth) | 10:00–11:30 (Accra)
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Should we care about narrating illness? How is the care work carried out, and what role might narrative play within it? How might narrative shed new light on pressing global healthcare concerns?
This webinar explores how narrating illness, through multiple disciplinary perspectives, can make subjective experience visible and valuable within healthcare systems that often prioritise quantitative data. It highlights narrative as both a shared storytelling experience and a tool with potential benefits for health and wellbeing at individual, institutional, and societal levels, while critically reflecting on its limits.
Speakers
- Prof Martina King (Medical Humanities Research Group, University of Fribourg)
- Dr Loïc Bourdeau (Critical Medical Humanities Research Cluster, Maynooth University)
- Dr Victoria Osei-Bonsu (Department of English, University of Ghana)
- Dr Veronica Heney (Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University)
Hosts
- Dr Jordan McCullough (Assisted Lab, University of St Gallen)
- Dr Tania Manríquez Roa (IBME, University of Zurich)
Organised by
- Forum for Medical Humanities (University of St Gallen and University of Zurich)
- Forum for Global Health Ethics (University of Zurich)
With support from
- Institute for Medical Humanities (Durham University)
- Critical Medical Humanities Research Cluster (Maynooth University)
