Neurotypicality. Typicality.
The idea of “health” in the somatic domain, and in the domain of “mental health”.
There are an infinite number of ways of being healthy: discuss with respect both to somatic and mental constructions of health.
Consider this odd conjunction of “Western” themes: Western Medicine, Western Art Music. Can you see that there might be medicine that does not fit the Western model?
The pharmakon (Greek) was both poison and remedy. Where do we see the pharmakon today?
What are the major medical traditions beyond the Western model? This is also an opportunity to question the notion of a “tradition.”
What differentiates ERP-based research from analysis of EEG frequency bands?
What is a disability? Who decides? Where do norms come from? Are they consciously decided, emergent, engineered?
In every area we consider, we find ourselves to be both aspirational (wildly!) and pragmatic (do something!). Consider the clinical domain from both perspectives.
We will use Chapters 1 & 6 taken from Mol, A. (2002). The body multiple: Ontology in medical practice. Duke University Press, to guide our discussion.
Interdisciplinary Challenges 