{"id":3315,"date":"2026-01-30T00:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:42:44","slug":"the-call-for-new-histories-of-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/the-call-for-new-histories-of-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Call for New Histories of Healing: Reimagining the Use of Storytelling as Pharmakon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>StoryPharm Blog 7 (January 2026)<\/strong><br \/>\nCan storytelling heal \u2013 or can it wound? Drawing on the ancient concept of pharmakon, which signifies both cure and poison, this StoryPharm Blog post reimagines narrative as a powerful force in the history of medicine and gender. From Plato and Derrida to feminist critiques of medical epistemology, Pavla Araudo explores how stories about women\u2019s bodies have shaped health, inequality, and collective memory across centuries. By reframing premodern healing narratives, StoryPharm proposes storytelling itself as a restorative practice \u2013 an antidote to silence, exclusion, and biased medical histories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":3316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"modified_by":"pavlosmi","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 07:56:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/storypharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}