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The Mad Pride Movement and Mental Health: Can Medicine “Boycott Normal”? Diane R. Wiener, PhD, LMSW Director, Disability Cultural Center, Syracuse University Friday, April 20, 2012 2 ~ 3 p.m. 2509/2510 Setnor Academic Building 766 Irving Ave. What does the Mad Pride movement have to say about mental health? What are the connections among disability cultures, pride, and activism; anti-psychiatric networking; clinical practice; and educational opportunities? This presentation will make linkages among bioethics, medical humanities, and disability studies, with a specific orientation toward medical anthropology and discourse analysis.  It will address the implications of a “spectrum” of anti-psychiatric stances, the often seemingly commonsensical use of the word crazy in both lay and academic settings, and the variant meanings of what some mental health activists (including in the Icarus Project) have called “dangerous gifts” for professional practice and everyday life in Syracuse and beyond. Access: The presentation space is wheelchair accessible. For sign language interpretation, please contact: CCM Coordinator, Lois Dorschel at dorschel@upstate.edu or 464.5404. Info: CCM Executive Director Rebecca Garden, PhD  gardenr@upstate.edu or 464.8451. Free and open to the public.

• For info contact Consortium Director Rebecca Garden.
• All Consortium Seminars are wheelchair accessible; sign language interpretation available upon request.

The Consortium for Culture and Medicine Celebrates 30 Years & Honors Dr. Robert W. Daly The Syracuse Consortium for the Cultural Foundations of Medicine was founded in 1978 by Dr. Robert Pickett, Syracuse University, Dr. Thomas Ewens from Le Moyne College. and Dr. Robert Daly, SUNY Upstate Medical University (left to right). The Consortium for Culture and Medicine is a collaborative endeavor between SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse University and Le Moyne College to engage in scholarship related to the cultural foundations of medical theory and practice. It serves a unique function by aligning the three institutions and uniting scholarly exploration across them – moving beyond discipline-specific or profession-centered education to a truly interdisciplinary pursuit of knowledge.  The CCM mission – to advance a cultural and social perspective on medicine, beyond an increasingly technological and economic viewpoint – is only strengthened in our current age of ever-expanding scientific advancement in the face of vast economic restraints.

Photos from the celebration held on April 14, 2009.