1. Juliet Chenery-Robson

2. Emilia’s kingdom 2

3. 3 Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

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5. 5 Alienation

6. Unpredictable Patterns Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art MA Degree Show 2008 6

7. Unpredictable Patterns 7

8. A Diagnosis of Exclusion Durham Art Gallery 2010 8

9. PhD Research Question:

10.  Many psychiatrists currently refuse to accept the serious physical nature of M.E. and state that it is “merely a faulty illness belief”, or “somatoform disorder”.  (June 14 2006 Invest in ME press release)  “The treatment (or lack of it) of ME sufferers in the UK is a national scandal.”   (Professor Malcolm Hooper, University of Sunderland) 10

11. M.E. Research MRI Scanner, Newcastle General Hospital 11

12. Lucy’s kingdom 12

13. Amelia’s kingdom 13

14. Ben and Ryan’s kingdom 14

15. Trai’s kingdom 15

16. 16 Three Stages of Mimesis (an interpretation) Mimesis 1: The realisation that meaning can be derived from sufferers experiences of living with M.E. Mimesis 2: The creation of something representable with form (photographs) from raw experience, making it visible & understandable. Mimesis 3: The outcome of the creation (photographs) being observed & interpreted via exhibition, publication or website.

17. Morgan’s kingdom 17

18. M.E. Research Northumbria University 18

19. JEAN-MARTIN CHARCOTHUGH WELCH DIAMOND 19

20. JO SPENCEROSY MARTIN 20

21. DEBORAH PADFIELDJOHN DARWELL 21

22. M.E. Research Tilt Tables, Royal Victoria Infirmary 22

23. 23 M.E. Research Skin fluorescence, Freeman Hospital

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26. GEMINI HOUSE PETERLEE Open evening: 13 th May WARWICK HOUSE NEWCASTLE Open evening: 7 th June 26

27. William Osler, Canadian Physician Variability is the law of life and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. 27