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The subject at rest: novel conceptualizations of self and brain from cognitive neuroscience's study of the 'resting state' (2011)
Journal Article
Callard, F., & Margulies, D. (2011). The subject at rest: novel conceptualizations of self and brain from cognitive neuroscience's study of the 'resting state'. Subjectivity, 4(3), 227-257. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2011.11

The neuroscientific field of ‘resting state’ research has been described as heralding a paradigm shift in functional neuroimaging. As this new field has been central to the development of a cognitive neuroscientific theory of inner mental life, we he... Read More about The subject at rest: novel conceptualizations of self and brain from cognitive neuroscience's study of the 'resting state'.

Rapid progress or lengthy process? Electronic personal health records in mental health (2011)
Journal Article
Ennis, L., Rose, D., Callard, F., Denis, M., & Wykes, T. (2011). Rapid progress or lengthy process? Electronic personal health records in mental health. BMC Psychiatry, 11, Article 117. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244x-11-117

A major objective of many healthcare providers is to increase patients' participation in their own care. The introduction of electronic personal health records (ePHRs) may help to achieve this. An ePHR is an electronic database of an individual's hea... Read More about Rapid progress or lengthy process? Electronic personal health records in mental health.

Finding Sustainability: University-community collaborations focused on arts in health (2011)
Journal Article
White, M., & Robson, M. (2011). Finding Sustainability: University-community collaborations focused on arts in health. Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 4, 48-64

This article describes a number of community-based arts in health projects in schools and disadvantaged communities in Northern England that connect with the interdisciplinary research interests of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham Universi... Read More about Finding Sustainability: University-community collaborations focused on arts in health.

Memoir and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Reflections on The Centre Cannot Hold; Me, Myself, and Them; and the ‘Crumbling Twin Pillars’ of Kraepelinian Psychiatry (2011)
Journal Article
Woods, A. (2011). Memoir and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Reflections on The Centre Cannot Hold; Me, Myself, and Them; and the ‘Crumbling Twin Pillars’ of Kraepelinian Psychiatry. Mental Health Review Journal: Research, Policy and Practice, 16(3), 102-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/13619321111178041

Purpose – Over 100 years ago, Emil Kraepelin revolutionised the classification of psychosis by identifying what he argued were two natural disease entities: manic depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder) and dementia praecox (schizophrenia). Kraepelin... Read More about Memoir and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Reflections on The Centre Cannot Hold; Me, Myself, and Them; and the ‘Crumbling Twin Pillars’ of Kraepelinian Psychiatry.

Care of the body: spaces of practice (2011)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Lawson, V., & Wiles, J. (2011). Care of the body: spaces of practice. Social and Cultural Geography, 12(6), 563-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2011.601238

Care—concept, emotion, practice, politics, moral exhortation—is a starting point for a range of critical geographies. Care affords geographers a richness of possibilities through which to engage critically with a range of politically charged discours... Read More about Care of the body: spaces of practice.

The Gawain-poet and medieval romance (2010)
Book Chapter
Saunders, C. (2010). The Gawain-poet and medieval romance. In M. O'Neill (Ed.), The Cambridge History of English Poetry (26-42). Cambridge University Press

Magic and Christianity (2010)
Book Chapter
Saunders, C. (2010). Magic and Christianity. In R. Field, P. Hardman, & M. Sweeney (Eds.), Christianity and Romance in Medieval England (84-101). D. S. Brewer

Cool Intimacies of Care for Contemporary Clinical Practice (2010)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Macnaughton, J., Saunders, C., & Evans, M. (2010). Cool Intimacies of Care for Contemporary Clinical Practice. The Lancet, 376(9754), 1732-1733. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2810%2962123-x

The practices of medicine across history and culture illuminate the centrality of the physical intimacy of touch in the expression of the healer's care. Yet much of modern western medicine diminishes the value of intimacy in the expertise of the clin... Read More about Cool Intimacies of Care for Contemporary Clinical Practice.

Biology's gift: interrogating the turn to affect (2010)
Journal Article
Papoulias, C., & Callard, F. (2010). Biology's gift: interrogating the turn to affect. Body & Society, 16(1), 29-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x09355231

This article investigates how the turn to affect within the humanities and social sciences re-imagines the relationship between cultural theory and science. We focus on how the writings of two neuroscientists (Antonio Damasio and Joseph LeDoux) and o... Read More about Biology's gift: interrogating the turn to affect.