Narrative, Health & Social Justice
This interdisciplinary and inter-institutional seminar explores the connections between narrative, health, and social justice. If disease, violence, terror, war, poverty and oppression all manifest themselves in narrative, then it is equally true that resistance, justice, healing, activism, and collectivity can be products of a narrative based approach to ourselves and the world. Narrative understanding helps unpack the complex power relations between North and South, state and worker, disabled body and able-body, bread-earner and child-bearer, subject and researcher, patient and provider as well as self and the other. The seminar will draw from such fields as journalism, performance arts, law, public health, trauma studies, anthropology, sociology, literary studies, medicine, writing, and cultural studies. The common thread will be the narratives we tell as individuals, families, communities, and nations that situate our experience in social, political, and cultural contexts, and that express in so many ways our search for justice in our world and for our world. Our aim is to broaden the mandate of each of our disciplines, challenging each of us to bring a critical, self-reflective eye to our scholarship, teaching, practice, and organizing. How are the stories we tell manifestations of social injustice? How can we transform such stories into narratives of justice, health, and change?
Seminar: #737
Founded: 2010
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Seminar Administration
Co Chairs:
Marsha Hurst, Ph.D.
Faculty
Columbia University, Program & MS in Narrative Medicine
marsha@marshahurst.com
Sayantani DasGupta, MD MPH
Master's Program in Narrative Medicine
Columbia University, Division of General Pediatrics
sd2030@columbia.edu
Rapporteur:
Rachel Dorrell
Columbia University, Narrative Medicine
red2131@columbia.edu
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