Dr. Alan Bleakley This is Me

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1. 1. www.designerbodies.org

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   Published on: 4/9/2007   Last Visited: 4/9/2007

   ALAN BLEAKLEYIn his talk, Alan Bleakley demonstrated the value of art-science collaboration by drawing on both historical and contemporary research.He opened his talk by investigating the strong discipline boundaries that still exist based on a history of separation and the continual policing of borders in any science and art collaborations.He referred to Bruno Latour's suggestion that modernism never happened, because the post-Enlightenment project of purity through discipline separation offers an impossible project in the face of a hybrid world.The posthuman condition, where bodies and identities are mediated and distributed by technologies, is hybrid.Hence, Bleakley inferred, we cannot justify a separation between 'art' and 'science', especially where this is framed as an opposition.
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   Alan Bleakley began his academic career as a scientist, first in zoology and biochemistry, and later neuropsychology.Disillusioned by a lack of ethical consideration in the treatment of laboratory animals, he switched to study of psychotherapy, humanities and cultural studies, gaining a DPhil from the University of Sussex in a comparison of the use of animal imagery in classical shamanism and contemporary archetypal psychotherapy.
   
   He has taught and researched in higher education for nearly 30 years and currently works in medical education and medical humanities for the Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, based at a large hospital in Truro, Cornwall.He has been active in developing a core medical humanities curriculum and a research base in medical education and medical humanities. His current research focuses upon teamwork in operating theatres and the aesthetics of medicine, including clinical judgment.Alan has collaborated on visual arts projects with his wife Sue, and is a widely published poet.He has written three books on the psychology of imagination and is currently working on a book on the aesthetics of medical practice.His main passion is surfing.

2. 2. Subtle Technologies » Alan Bleakley

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   Published on: 1/1/2007   Last Visited: 4/19/2008

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   Dr. Alan Bleakley has a background in biology, psychology, cultural studies, psychotherapy, literature, and education, with a doctorate from the University of Sussex.He works in medical education running the education research programme for the Peninsula Medical School, UK.He has written three books on the psychology of the imagination, a collection of poetry, and numerous scholarly articles, including a number on education as an aesthetic practice.He is currently working on a book reformulating medical education for the 21st century, drawing on a poststructuralist theoretical framework.He lives in the far west of the UK overlooking one of the world's most beautiful beaches, where he regularly surfs.www.pms.ac.uk/pms/research/ clinEdStaff.php?staff=alanBleakley

3. 3. Goings On March 10, 2004

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   Published on: 3/10/2004   Last Visited: 12/22/2006

   Dr. Alan Bleakley, Psychologist and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro & Peninsula Medical School, Exeter