The 1st Hestia Workshop will take place on 28 May 2019 on UIC Barcelona’s Barcelona Campus. Requirements Subject area: All submitted abstracts must address social and/or health aspects of caring for patients with complex chronic diseases, including mental health. Particular consideration will be given to works that take a multidisciplinary approach. Format: Abstracts…
Linguist Elena Semino warns of the negative impact of war metaphors on cancer patients. The expert, who gave a lecture organised by UIC Barcelona’s Hestia Chair, has analysed 1.5 million words taken from online interviews and comments about cancer On 21 February, Elena Semino, a full professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University (United Kingdom), gave…
The call for the 2019 Hestia Awards, from the Hestia Chair in Integrated Health and Social Care, promoted by the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) and Fundación Hestia, aims to recognise the best initiatives in the field of research in health and social care and mental health, whose objective was to improve care of…