What has Shirley to do with Health and Normality?
Kodak used Shirley cards to standardize the reproduction and printing of skin tones. Shirley became a world wide norm reference for color balancing skin tones in photo labs. This norm created a Continue Reading →
Body Symptoms, Health & Community Forum – December 12th, 2014
In this forum we will link the individual experience of body symptoms with larger cultural and social issues. You will have the opportunity to explore your own experience and learn Continue Reading →
Body Symptoms, Health & Community Forum – October 10th, 2014
In this forum we will link the individual experience of body symptoms with larger cultural and social issues. You will have the opportunity to explore your own experience and learn Continue Reading →
Zoom In – Zoom Out
Imagine zooming in on health to look at individual health and zooming out to have a broader perspective on community health. Health In Sickness Zoom In: Kristine Barnett helped her Continue Reading →
The Elixir of Illness
As individuals, we make health a priority and marginalize sickness. Informed by cultural values of youth, fitness and health, we make disease our enemy. We declare war against sickness and Continue Reading →
HEALTH IN SICKNESS SICKNESS IN HEALTH – Book Launch – February 8th 2014
By Pierre Morin This book is about valuing health and sickness. It is about seeing sickness-in-health and health-in sickness. It is about discovering our diversity, which includes processes that go beyond Continue Reading →
Deconstructing Health and Illness
Health and illness are categories or concepts that appear to be self-explanatory and given. We all know when we are healthy and when we are sick. We have a common Continue Reading →
Sickness as an Untold Story
Despite much scientific progress, health and sickness remain poorly understood. We know a lot about what causes disease and what prevents us from falling sick; nevertheless, we know little about Continue Reading →
The Anatomy of Health and Sickness
From the Introduction of my upcoming book: My great grandfather Fritz Morin and my grandfather Jean Morin were the clinical directors of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium of Leysin, in the Swiss Continue Reading →