Does more medicine make us sicker? Ivan Illich revisited
February 22, 2019
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I'd like to share my article with you: ’Does More Medicine Make Us Sicker? Revisiting Ivan Illich’...
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Ayrshire 3 year evaluation: most important finding is significant increase in mental health and wellbeing.
In 2014, the NHS Endowment Fund provided funding for an Asset Based Community Development project in Ayrshire exploring how peoples’ assets and skills can be...
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Thisness: Coming to our Senses (Part 3 of 3)
"It benefits without pretension, it is content with it’s nature, and therefore can’t be faulted."...
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Thisness: Coming to our Senses (Part 2 of 3)
That life is a terminal condition should focus us, all the more strongly, on building community as a wise course of action in shaping...
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Thisness: Coming to our Senses (Part 1 of 3)
Start with a focus on that which is external, beyond our own senses and our influence is to inadvertently render that which is proximate...
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" People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya...
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Part 4: We Don’t Have a Health Problem, We Have a Village Problem.
In depth look at the questions of how best practitioners can connect people back into community life; to consider how we might support communities...
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Part 3: The Importance of Asking
Before you engage with communities you must be prepared to invest in supporting local residents in building them, not so you can harvest/harness their...
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Part 2: Social Prescription or Medical Proscription?
Supporting people to create pathways towards a good life is not about prescriptions or referrals, it is about walking alongside people in their life’s...
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Social Prescribing, a panacea or another top-down programme? Part 1
(this is part 1 of 4 in a blog series) Over the next four blogs I wish to critically explore an approach to patient support...
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A Question for Community Wellbeing
"I believe it is time to state clearly that specific situations and circumstances are "sickening," rather than that people themselves are sick. The symptoms...
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Communities and the State: a question of proportionality
First, let me say thanks to everyone who took time to participate in the conversation around last week’s blog. Building on that conversation, I’d...
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