Long Covid Advocacy
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06. On Fairy Tales & Disability: Discussing ‘Disfigured’ with Amanda Leduc (opens the original)
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What do fairy tales tell us about disability, difference and the bodies we are taught to fear? For this episode of Cripademia, we’re joined by Amanda Leduc, author of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space. And the book we chose for our summer book club.Part memoir, part literary history and part disability critique, Disfigured explores the ways fairy tales have shaped our ideas about beauty, difference, transformation and what it means to have a “happy ending”. From the darker
101: 03. The Biopsychosocial Model (opens the original)
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One-page summary at bottom of page.PDF download HEREThe term biopsychosocial is referred to extensively in medicine and the community, especially regarding more controversial interpretations. For example, in the response from the Royal College of Psychiatrists to our open letter, they stated:Psychiatrists are experts in the biopsychosocial model to understand all their patients needs and an suggestion that they shouldn’t debate illnesses with biological
‘That agony returns’: What Coleridge’s ancient mariner can teach us about the Long Covid brain re-trainers (opens the original)
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We are pleased to host writer Ted Monroe with a wonderfully incisive article on the recent controversial article ‘The Painful Truth about Long Covid’ by Alan Levinovitz. Ted’s essay on Long Covid, alongside 12 essays on disability, illness and care, is also featured in a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece ‘On Being Ill’. To celebrate, we are doing a giveaway* of ‘On Being Ill’ signed by Ted! Just comment VIRGINIA to enter. You can check out Ted’s excellent Substack <a hr
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