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LOCATION:Room 231, Elvet Riverside
SUMMARY:Humanising Practice
DESCRIPTION:A series of seminars held in conjunction with the Institute of
  Advanced Study.  The next seminar in the series, entitled 'Humanising Hos
 pital Design' will be given by Professor Wil Gesler on March 5th.   5th Ma
 rch 2009		Prof. Wil Gesler, University of North Carolina, USA Research int
 o and assessment of the influence of hospital design features on the well-
 being of users and staff has mainly focused on clinical goals and physical
  environments.  A study by a team of health geographers of an acute mental
  health care unit in East London shifts the focus toward non-clinical goal
 s and both social and symbolic environments.Summary of Series  ‘Huma
 nising Practice', is a deliberately ambiguous title, acknowledging that wh
 ile professional practice can be a humanising activity, it often stands in
  need of humanisation itself. Humanising practice is an intervention that 
 is compassionate and respects peoples' dignity. Yet while an injunction to
  treat service users with dignity is embedded in the ethical codes of most
  professions, dehumanising influences regularly impact upon the daily rout
 ines, institutional structures (including the built environment) and every
 day life practices of many professions (health and medicine, social work, 
 law and education). Each of these professions has been reassessing the rol
 e of the practitioner not least because client or patient groups are becom
 ing used to consumer choice, and are increasingly skilled in accessing and
  utilising the information resources that are just a click away. Additiona
 lly, however, there is growing recognition that although students may be e
 ducated in ‘humane' professional practice, this may be trained out o
 f them as they negotiate policies, management goals, and structures that a
 re out of tune with this educational ideal.   This seminar series aims to 
 produce innovative, interdisciplinary thinking on the education of future 
 professionals by bringing together professionals, educationalists and othe
 rs, to engage in discussions about the meaning of the term practice and it
 s realisation in ‘everyday life practices' in a range of policy area
 s. Discussions will focus on what humanising means in professional practic
 e, on the character of humanising process, and on the outcome of truly hum
 anising services. The series will conclude with an interdisciplinary works
 hop in Durham organised in conjunction with the Association for Medical Hu
 manities Conference.   These seminars are free and open to all.   For more
  information please contact Professor Lena Dominelli or Dr Jane Macnaughto
 n and see link to leaflet below.
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