Teresa Casal

Teresa Casal is Assistant Professor in English at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, and a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for Lisbon Studies (ULICES). She currently coordinates the interdisciplinary project in Medical Humanities, based at ULICES. Her main areas of research are narrative fiction and non-fiction, Irish Studies, and Medical Humanities. Her research focuses on how contemporary narrative fiction and creative non-fiction represent experiences of dislocation, loss, and illness. She is equally interested in the co-constructed nature of narratives and in the role of readers and listeners. She has published articles and book chapters in her areas of expertise and co-edited the literary anthology Contar (com) a Medicina [Counting on Medicine] (2015; ext. and revised eds. 2016 and 2018), Beyond Diagnosis: Relating Person to Patient, Patient to Person (2014), and Revisitar o Mito / Myths Revisited (2015). She has given various workshops and coordinated reading and writing groups for healthcare professionals.

Publications

Global Perspectives on Probing Narratives in Healthcare
Global Perspectives on Probing Narratives in Healthcare
Teresa Casal, Maria de Jesus Cabral. © 2023. 349 pages.
There is often a communication disconnect between medical caregivers, including doctors, nurses, therapists, and other assistive medical personnel, and the patient. While medical...
“Imagining Myself Out of Myself”: The Uses of Narrative Fiction and Memoir in Health Humanities
“Imagining Myself Out of Myself”: The Uses of Narrative Fiction and Memoir in Health Humanities
Teresa Casal. © 2023. 25 pages.
Narrative medicine proposes a multifaceted use of narratives to bring insight and awareness into the experience of patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers. However...
Bridging Pharmacy Education and Health Humanities: The Contribution of Narrative Medicine to Pharmacists' Caring Abilities
Bridging Pharmacy Education and Health Humanities: The Contribution of Narrative Medicine to Pharmacists' Caring Abilities
Afonso Miguel Cavaco, Catarina Martins Pires, Margarida Pinto Dias, Cecília Beecher Martins, Teresa Casal, Maria de Jesus Cabral. © 2021. 23 pages.
Pharmacy education is largely based on learning elements of disease and the corresponding elements of treatment, using the natural sciences and the biomedical perspective. While...