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SUMMARY:POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 VIRUS: Narrative Medicine and the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis (Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee)
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 VIRUS: Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee (Johan
 nes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) will give a lecture on "Narrative Medicine
  and the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis" and also teach a colloquium on "'
 Life' (Narrative Medicine, Life Writing)" - University of Bern, March 12-13
 \n\nPOSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 VIRUS:\n\nAs of 2018, African American women 
 in the US were three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related 
 causes than white women. But it was only when award-winning tennis player S
 erena Williams faced severe problems giving birth to her first child, Olymp
 ia, that many were willing to admit that perhaps there was a racial bias in
  the American health care system after all. This paper looks at the current
  black maternal mortality crisis through the lens of narrative medicine. As
  both a methodology and a field of research, narrative medicine uses the to
 ols of literary analysis to enhance medical practice.\n\nLooking at racial 
 disparities in the American health care system from a narrative medicine pe
 rspective, we may thus wonder whether medical practitioners listen to the n
 arratives of black patience differently than is the case for white patients
 . In this context, both African American women and their relatives need to 
 engage in a practice of what might be called medical storytelling in order 
 to read the practice of medicine against the grain.\n\nFinally, while this 
 paper looks at what narrative medicine can bring to medical practice and th
 e didactics of medicine, it also asks what narrative medicine might do to t
 he humanities as a critical practice. If literary analysis brings to medici
 ne an attention to close reading and “close listening,” narrative medicine,
  in turn, may add a material dimension to the humanities. In the dichotomy 
 of black and white but also far beyond it, bodies may indeed matter not onl
 y to medical practice, but to the humanities as well.\n\nMore information i
 s available at https://www.gsah.unibe.ch/doctoral_programs/interdisciplinar
 y_cultural_studies_ics/events/life/index_eng.html
LOCATION:University of Bern
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