Arts practices in unreasonable doubt? Reflections on understandings of arts practices in healthcare contexts

This article suggests that the discourse on arts and health encompass contemporary arts practices as an active and engaged analytical activity. Distinctions between arts therapy and arts practice are made to suggest that clinical evidence-based evaluation, while appropriate for arts therapy, is not appropriate for arts practice and in effect cast them in unreasonable doubt. Themes in current discourse on “arts” and “health” are broadly sketched to provide a context for discussion of arts practices. Approaches to knowledge validation in relation to each domain are discussed. These discourses are applied to the Irish healthcare context, offering a reading of three different art projects; it suggests a multiplicity of analyses beyond causal positive health gains. It is suggested that the social turn in medicine and the social turn in arts practices share some similar pre-occupations that warrant further attention

Trans youth, science and art: creating (trans) gendered space

This article is based on empirical research which was undertaken as part of the Sci:dentity project funded by the Wellcome Trust. Sci:dentity was a year-long participatory arts project which ran between March 2006 and March 2007. The project offered 18 young transgendered and transsexual people, aged between 14 and 22, an opportunity to come together to explore the science of sex and gender through art. This article focuses on four creative workshops which ran over two months, being the ‘creative engagement’ phase of the project. It offers an analysis of the transgendered space created which was constituted through the logics of recognition, creativity and pedagogy. Following this, the article explores the ways in which these transgendered and transsexual young people navigate gendered practices, and the gendered spaces these practices constitute, in their everyday lives shaped by gendered and sexual normativities. It goes on to consider the significance of trans virtual and physical cultural spaces for the development of trans young peoples' ontological security and their navigations and negotiations of a gendered social world

Endopolygalacturonases van Botrytis cinerea: karakteristieken in vitro

In dit artikel samenvattingen van lezingen van zeven presentaties van zestien onderzoekers van de KNPV-werkgroep Botrytis die op 18 september 2002 hun jaarlijkse bijeenkomst op het PPO Bomen in Boskoop hielden. De lezingen hadden de volgende onderwerpen: 1) Botrytis problems in hardy ornamentals; 2) Epidemiologie van Botrytis paeoniae in pioenroos; 3) Bestrijding van Botrytis in aardbeien met de hulp van een BOS, gericht op BoWaS; 4) Ulocladium is Botrytis een sla voor, maar nog niet praktijkrijp; 5) Endopolygalacturonases van Botrytis cinerea: karakteristieken in vitro; 6) De rol van endopolygalacturonases in het infectieproces van Botrytis cinerea; 7) Beheersing van Botrytis spp., veroorzaker van 'vuur' in bolgewassen, met behulp van anatagonistische micro-organisme