The Experience of Illness

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Read Fergus Shanahan's award winning essay "Waiting" inspired by Living Loss: the Experience of Illness in Art" Exhibition at Glucksman Gallery
http://www.ucc.ie/research/apc/content/news_events/news/news79.html

News - News & Events - Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre | University College Cork | Linking Irish science with industry and society through excellence in research, education and outreach in gastrointestinal health.

http://www.nature.com/ni/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ni.2669.html/

Come along to our Irritable Bowel Syndrome Educational Symposium at the Glucksman Gallery on Saturday 9th March 2013 (the last weekend of Living/Loss: the experience of illness in Art exhibition). The symposium aims to increase awareness about the disease, to encourage a more open dialogue amongst patients and the general public, and most importantly, to provide IBS sufferers a platform to share how IBS impacts on their own quality of life. For speakers and registration see http://www.ucc.ie/research/apc/content/news_events/events.html

Events - News & Events - Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre | University College Cork | Linking Irish science with industry and society through excellence in research, education and outreach in gastrointestinal health.

Check out Orlagh O'Brien's Blogs related to The Experience of Illness: Learning from the Arts Symposium

Art and Illness Symposium – What does Illness feel like?
http://emotionallyvague.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/art-and-illness-symposium-what-does-illness-feel-like/


What I learned from "The experience of illness – Learning from the Arts" a symposium at University College Cork, 2012
http://emotionallyvague.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/what-i-learned-from-the-experience-of-illness-learning-from-the-arts-a-symposium-at-university-college-cork-2012/

Art and Illness Symposium: What does illness feel like? For the vast majority of us, illness is where life and death meet. It’s a guarantee that even if we ourselves don’t get seriously sick soon one of our loved ones will. Knowing a little of what to e...

http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2012/1201/world/cancer-battle-aposlike-weeding-dandelionsapos-215659.html

Cancer battle ‘like weeding dandelions’ | Irish Examiner RTÉ’s Morning Ireland presenter Áine Lawlor has told an international conference that fighting cancer was like a gardener trying to eradicate dandelions — you had to make sure every tiny bit of the root is removed.

Read Dan Buckley on today's Irish Examiner
http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2012/1128/world/symposium-uses-the-arts-to-teach-about-illness-215317.html

Symposium uses the arts to teach about illness | Irish Examiner Ask any cut-and-thrust surgeon about a hard day’s work and he or she is likely to say something like:

Tina O'Sullivan wrties in today's Irish Exminer
http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/in-sickness-and-in-death-215153.html

In sickness and in death | Irish Examiner CECILY Brennan’s punchy paintings of angry red limbs torn up with eczema are so convincing that staff from UCC’s Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) praised their accuracy.

The Experience of Illness article by Brian O'Connell http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2012/1127/1224327139923.html

Illness viewed through prism of the arts A symposium in Cork this weekend will feature medical experts, artists and others who have treated illness in creative ways, writes BRIAN O'CONNELL

University College Cork (UCC) - News Dublin Talks is a series of inspiring talks by and about Irish people with big and interesting ideas. Organised by Dublin City Council and the Royal Irish Academy, the Dublin Talks are part of Innovation Dublin 2012 and are supported by Dublin City of Science 2012.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandlife/shapeimin/music-for-thought-214754.html

Music for thought | Irish Examiner SINGER/songwriter Eleanor McEvoy will contribute to an international symposium at UCC next weekend on how the arts can offer us an understanding of what it feels like to be ill.