CFP: Interdisciplinary Wounds Workshop: Thackray Medical Museum, 20 Sept 2016
CFP: Exploring Histories and Futures of Innovation in Advanced Wound Care
Workshop at the Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
11am – 4pm, 20 September 2016
Advanced
wound care deals with chronic, complex wounds, including leg ulcers,
pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers and dehisced surgical wounds. Most
chronic wounds in the UK are managed
by community nurses and the experience of wound care falls as much in
the domain of the domestic and everyday as in that of professional
medicine and healthcare. Although they are a fundamental part of
everyday healthcare, the technologies associated with
wounds are often considered mundane and overlooked by both researchers
and practitioners, with important consequences for patients and service
users.
The
workshop and wider project connects academics from a broad range of
disciplines with health professionals, patients, carers, service users
and industry representatives to explore
what we can learn from current and past developments in advanced wound
care, from mundane dressings to increasingly technologized products
which claim to enhance the healing process.
We invite proposals for
research papers (20 minutes) or short provocations (5-7 minutes)
which explore and reflect on the history of wound care and/or its
current practices in the UK. Please send abstracts of no more than
250 words to Dr Mary Madden (M.T.Madden@leeds.ac.uk) by
Friday 8 July 2016. The overall project seeks to explore new
areas of research in the history and sociology of wound care and
critically examine the current pathways to innovation in their wider
context; we are looking to develop larger research projects,
new collaborations and interdisciplinary publications.
Topics for this workshop (the first in a series of three) might include historical/sociological approaches to:
(i)
nursing and other professions
(ii)
the emergence and reorganisations of the NHS
(iii)
domestic and clinical wound care practices
(iv)
collaborations between industry, patients/service users and health professionals
(v)
the role of patients and service users as innovators
(vi)
changing conceptualisations of innovation
Travel costs for speakers based in the UK will be covered thanks to support from the AHRC.
Participants
include: Professor Alex Faulkner, Professor Christine Hallett (TBC),
Professor Dan Bader, Professor Peter Vowden and Dr Madeleine Flanagan.
For further information visit the project website (http://wounds.leeds.ac.uk/)
and Twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/