Book: Mapping It Out An - Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies

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Mapping It Out

An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies

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Jobey, J.  The Shape of Things, FT Weekend Magazine, May 31 / June 1 2014,26-29.

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New: Journal of Critical Anti-Oppressive Social Inquiry (CAOS)

CAOS 

is an interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal that publishes original articles/art work/poetry that foreground critical forms of social inquiry, research and practice.  

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'Intellectual brutalisation' and the saving grace and power of poetry

BBC Radio 4 Today: An eminent cardiologist has organised and funded a poetry competition for his medical students to stop them becoming, in his words, intellectually brutalised.
Gabrielle Gascoigne, pictured, is a previous winner.
The BBC’s Jane Dreaper discovers more.

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PBS: For these medical students, poetry nurtures the soul

Here's (source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03s6mdp/live ) the full version of Mastectomy - For His Wife, by Gabrielle Ruth Gascoigne:

It will be an honour
to bathe the scars.
Don’t think my tears imply
an ounce of sorrow -
only joy
could fill my eyes.

It will be a pleasure
to hold you close.
Know this – your precious flesh
calls the bluff on gold
and silver -
makes me a king.

It will be a delight
to talk with you
into the night we thought
stolen, clean away -
until day
renews our hope.

It would be too heartless
if all this love,
these sinner’s prayers and more
should fall to nothing
more than rain
on empty streets.

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual

subjectivity insight, rapport, empathy emotional control, detachment, engagement risk of burnout	objectivity anatomy, physiology          physicality, processes, mechanistic intellectual brutalisation
humanistic communication, relationships (medic) poetry	funding, crowded curricula hidden curriculum

group - population

FOUR QUARTETS T.S. Eliot from EAST COKER - IV

FOUR QUARTETS

T.S. Eliot

EAST COKER
(No. 2 of 'Four Quartets')

IV
The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
    Our only health is the disease
If we obey the dying nurse
Whose constant care is not to please
But to remind of our, and Adam's curse,
And that, to be restored, our sickness must grow worse.
    The whole earth is our hospital
Endowed by the ruined millionaire,
Wherein, if we do well, we shall
Die of the absolute paternal care
That will not leave us, but prevents us everywhere.
    The chill ascends from feet to knees,
The fever sings in mental wires.
If to be warmed, then I must freeze
And quake in frigid purgatorial fires
Of which the flame is roses, and the smoke is briars.
    The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.


T.S. Eliot Nobel Prizes biography
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html

Source copy:
http://www.davidgorman.com/4Quartets/notes.htm

http://www.davidgorman.com/4Quartets/2-coker.htm

'Nursing the Nation' poem Molly Case at RCN Congress 2013

The past fortnight has been quite intense in terms of conferences and the focus upon nursing education; plus as was pointed out to me I travelled from Jordan to Jordanstown. The conference in Jordan began with a beautiful prayer and I heard of this poem while away:

h2cm in the presence of -alities

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

morality     personality   mentality   individuality   spirituality intentionality   transcendentality  rationality	dimensionality   causality  functionality logicality   locality   physicality artificiality  materiality  finicality
hospitality   geniality   quality informality     sociability      conjugality practicality  plurality	nationality    feudality  principality   equality  formality  confidentiality brutality  officiality   criminality

Child to adult:

"Yes, but where does reality, aboriginality, universality, proportionality, abnormality, mortality go?"

:Adult to child