Overview
Bodies that are blemished, by accidents, diseases or treatments, may have lost their biological and/or functional intactness. Nevertheless they may be experienced and considered as “whole”. This project seeks to explore the experience of bodily wholeness in people with disfiguring breast, head and neck cancer. It will argue that the way in which people experience their own body serves as the basis for making (treatment related) choices, and thus entails a normative meaning.To this purpose, it starts from the hypothesis that bodily integrity should be explained in terms of the capacity of identifying with one’s body, i.e. the capacity of being the body one has. Physical restoration of someone’s blemished body does not necessarily result in the restoration of this person’s experience of bodily integrity, e.g. a breast reconstruction restores physical intactness, but identification with the new breast cannot be taken for granted.
This project seeks to enrich the current discourse and practice of medical ethics by bringing forth that decision’s about physical interventions should not be based upon cognitive deliberations only. The process of decision making should also include an articulation and evaluation of the way a patient relates to her/his body. It is exactly this project’s aim to provide insights in how cancer patients and survivors express their experience of (loss of) bodily wholeness. Such an empirically sound vocabulary of body experiences can subsequently be used by medical professionals to support patients in making good decisions.
This philosophical-anthropological research involves a twofold approach: (1) reflection on various theoretical, medical and cultural sources (2) collection and analysis of data from two Dutch oncology centers (interviews and focus groups). Researches in this project are therefore supposed to have excellent theoretical and philosophical skills, a profound interest in health care practices and, preferably, some experience in empirical research.
PhD project I: Ideal Shapes – Shaping Ideality
This project will explore the way in which cultural body ideals influence breast cancer patients’ experience of disfigurement. It will focus on the (representation of the) female breast, which has appealed to human imagination ever since and will investigate which role images and discourses play in breast cancer patients’ and survivors’ choices. It will also investigate whether alternative cultural representations, such as humoristic cancer comics, radical feminist discourse that disputes cosmetic reconstruction, or pictures that emphasize a certain untouched beauty in blemished bodies, may affect the experience of these women otherwise. The researcher will apply an empirical-philosophical approach, combining theoretical reflection with data collection and analysis.
Requirements
Requirements PhD project 1.
▪ Master in Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Medical Anthropology, Medical Humanities or comparable master.
▪ Interest in and feeling for qualitative empirical research.
▪ Excellent mastery of English in speech and in writing; sufficient mastery of Dutch (in order to conduct interviews with Dutch people)
▪ Excellent analytical skills, and commitment to conducting innovative research at the intersection of humanities, social sciences and health care practices.
Conditions of employment
Temporary employment for 4 years.
Your salary would be € 2.042,-- gross per month in the first year up to € 2.612,-- gross per month in the fourth year according to the PhD-student salary scale. Each year an evaluation will take place.
The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ , A-Z Terms of Employment.
Contract type
Temporary
4 years
Organisation
http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 14,500 students and 3,800 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Department
Department Health, Ethics, and Society
The candidates will be member of the department of Health, Ethics, and Society, in the research school CAPHRI. The department’s research focuses on the societal and normative dimensions of health care and public health. The interaction between scientific knowledge and technological innovation on the one hand and societal trends on the other is studied as well as the implications of these interactions for the distribution of responsibilities and rights between professionals, citizens and patients, society and politics. The candidates will be participating in some of the department’s teaching tasks in the Faculty of Health, Medince and Life Sciences. They will be offered a professional context for their research and education by CAPHRI’s center of Excellence. Additionally, they will be enrolled in the graduate program of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC).
Additional information
For more information please contact: Dr. Jenny Slatman (jenny.slatman@maastrichtuniversity.nl) (project leader).
http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
Bodies that are blemished, by accidents, diseases or treatments, may have lost their biological and/or functional intactness. Nevertheless they may be experienced and considered as “whole”. This project seeks to explore the experience of bodily wholeness in people with disfiguring breast, head and neck cancer. It will argue that the way in which people experience their own body serves as the basis for making (treatment related) choices, and thus entails a normative meaning.To this purpose, it starts from the hypothesis that bodily integrity should be explained in terms of the capacity of identifying with one’s body, i.e. the capacity of being the body one has. Physical restoration of someone’s blemished body does not necessarily result in the restoration of this person’s experience of bodily integrity, e.g. a breast reconstruction restores physical intactness, but identification with the new breast cannot be taken for granted.
This project seeks to enrich the current discourse and practice of medical ethics by bringing forth that decision’s about physical interventions should not be based upon cognitive deliberations only. The process of decision making should also include an articulation and evaluation of the way a patient relates to her/his body. It is exactly this project’s aim to provide insights in how cancer patients and survivors express their experience of (loss of) bodily wholeness. Such an empirically sound vocabulary of body experiences can subsequently be used by medical professionals to support patients in making good decisions.
This philosophical-anthropological research involves a twofold approach: (1) reflection on various theoretical, medical and cultural sources (2) collection and analysis of data from two Dutch oncology centers (interviews and focus groups). Researches in this project are therefore supposed to have excellent theoretical and philosophical skills, a profound interest in health care practices and, preferably, some experience in empirical research.
PhD project I: Ideal Shapes – Shaping Ideality
This project will explore the way in which cultural body ideals influence breast cancer patients’ experience of disfigurement. It will focus on the (representation of the) female breast, which has appealed to human imagination ever since and will investigate which role images and discourses play in breast cancer patients’ and survivors’ choices. It will also investigate whether alternative cultural representations, such as humoristic cancer comics, radical feminist discourse that disputes cosmetic reconstruction, or pictures that emphasize a certain untouched beauty in blemished bodies, may affect the experience of these women otherwise. The researcher will apply an empirical-philosophical approach, combining theoretical reflection with data collection and analysis.
Requirements
Requirements PhD project 1.
▪ Master in Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Medical Anthropology, Medical Humanities or comparable master.
▪ Interest in and feeling for qualitative empirical research.
▪ Excellent mastery of English in speech and in writing; sufficient mastery of Dutch (in order to conduct interviews with Dutch people)
▪ Excellent analytical skills, and commitment to conducting innovative research at the intersection of humanities, social sciences and health care practices.
Conditions of employment
Temporary employment for 4 years.
Your salary would be € 2.042,-- gross per month in the first year up to € 2.612,-- gross per month in the fourth year according to the PhD-student salary scale. Each year an evaluation will take place.
The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ , A-Z Terms of Employment.
Contract type
Temporary
4 years
Organisation
http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 14,500 students and 3,800 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Department
Department Health, Ethics, and Society
The candidates will be member of the department of Health, Ethics, and Society, in the research school CAPHRI. The department’s research focuses on the societal and normative dimensions of health care and public health. The interaction between scientific knowledge and technological innovation on the one hand and societal trends on the other is studied as well as the implications of these interactions for the distribution of responsibilities and rights between professionals, citizens and patients, society and politics. The candidates will be participating in some of the department’s teaching tasks in the Faculty of Health, Medince and Life Sciences. They will be offered a professional context for their research and education by CAPHRI’s center of Excellence. Additionally, they will be enrolled in the graduate program of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC).
Additional information
For more information please contact: Dr. Jenny Slatman (jenny.slatman@maastrichtuniversity.nl) (project leader).
http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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