[applied-ethics] job opportunities (2 phd students)
- From: Marcel Verweij <m.f.verweij@xxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:19:32 +0100
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> [messages-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] namens Jenny Slatman via LinkedIn
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> Verzonden: donderdag 13 januari 2011 15:29
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> Onderwerp: job opportunities (2 phd students)
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> Date: 1/13/2011
> Subject: job opportunities (2 phd students)
> 2 PhD Vacancies: project “Bodily Integrity in Blemished Bodies”, Department
> of Health, Ethics and Society, CAPHRI, Maastricht University.
>
> CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care is a major research school
> in the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, at Maastricht
> University. Its department of Health, Ethics and Society invites candidates
> to apply for the following positions within the NWO-VIDI project "Bodily
> Integrity in Blemished Bodies".
>
> Project leader: Dr. Jenny Slatman
>
> Description of the general program:
> 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.
>
> Description of the 2 PhD projects:
>
> 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 PhD project 1.
> ▪ Master in Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Medical Anthropology, Medical
> Humanities or another relevant field.
> ▪ 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.
>
> PHD PROJECT II FACING ONE’S LOSS OF FACE
> This project will explore the conditions on which people with disfiguring
> head and neck cancer cope with their, sometimes irreparable, damaged
> appearance; whether they find a way to re-identify with their own mirror
> image; whether they succeed in incorporating (functional or cosmetic)
> prostheses (e.g. larynx stoma, artificial ear, nose or eye) into their own
> “body image” and “body scheme”. The researcher will especially focus on the
> difference between the perspectives involved (e.g. a medical perspective such
> as “oncologic safety above all” versus a patient’s perspective such as
> “survival but not at the expense of the quality of life”), and will examine
> whether the gathering and articulation of these perspectives adds to a better
> understanding of patients’ experience of bodily integrity, thus contributing
> to good clinical practice. The researcher will apply an
> empirical-philosophical approach, combining theoretical reflection with data
> collection and analysis.
>
> Requirements PhD project 2.
> ▪ Master in Philosophy, Ethics, Health Care Sciences, Medical Psychology or
> another relevant field.
> ▪ 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
> The PhD candidates will be offered a fixed-term employment contract (4
> years). The gross monthly salary, for an employee on a full time basis, is €
> 2.042 during the first year and increases to € 2.612 over a four year period.
> The terms of employment are in accordance with the Dutch Collective Labour
> Agreement for Research Institutes ("CAO-onderzoeksinstellingen").
>
> Department
> 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
> 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).
>
> Application:
> Applications for one of the positions should consist of:
> ▪ An application letter
> ▪ Curriculum vitae
>
> Please send your application to: pzfdgvacatures@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, before
> February 20, 2011
> Please mention the number(s) and title(s) of the PhD project(s) you apply
> for.
>
> For more information
> jenny.slatman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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