Kaitlin Sibbald focuses on the language of healthcare and how the metaphors used shape available options for treatment.
“I want to change healthcare provider education so that the experiences, strengths, worldviews and ideas of diverse students are validated during education and become part of the foundation of healthcare practice.”
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New science needs new words. When we don’t have new words, we tend to borrow old ones that help us to understand the key parts of new science or technology. This appears in the name of the telephone – the telephone is a telegraph (tele) with sound (phonetics). It’s also used in how we describe […]
This article was written by Kaitlin Sibbald and Jasmine Mah and was originally published on The Conversation Canada on May 16, 2022. Half a million Canadians are living with dementia and one in five Canadians has cared for someone with dementia. Dementia is an umbrella term for many conditions causing “loss of memory, language, problem-solving […]
Words shape our decisions. Giving informed consent to participate in research is no exception. Certain metaphors make us more likely to want to participate and others drive us away. This is because of the associations attached to metaphors. For example, consider the research ‘guinea pig’. This metaphor was coined in 1913 by George Bernard Shaw, […]
We have been talking about our ‘healthcare heroes’ on the front line of the battle against COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Around the world, tributes to these heroes, including standing ovations from balconies, and murals lining the streets have emerged as ways of saying ‘thank-you’ to those who are caring for others, despite the difficult […]
