Nicola Gardini challenges the idea that health is the opposite of disease.
Health Rhymes with Death
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Nicola Gardini suggests that health is a creative process of self-fashioning culminating with death. It resembles translation – in particular, translation from poetry. Constructing health is constructing the ‘beauty’ of a new form.
An award-winning writer and a painter, Nicola Gardini is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford: https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/nicola-gardini
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This series of video podcasts highlights some of the key moments of the Translation and Medical Humanities conference which took place at the University of Oxford on 5-6 September 2023. This international conference explored, for the first time and in an interdisciplinary fashion, the interzone between translation studies and medical humanities; it invoked the role of the arts, humanities and social sciences as essential services for medicine and health care; and it reappraised the impact of...
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