HEC Forum | Special Thematic Issue | “Childhood and Disability” Guest Editor: Erica K. Salter, PhD Saint Louis University, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics From growth attenuation therapy for severely developmentally disabled children to the post-natal management of infants with trisomy 13 and 18, pediatric treatment decisions regularly involve assessments of the probability and… Continue reading
CFP: The Medieval Brain Workshop University of York 10th – 11th March 2017 As we research aspects of the medieval brain, we encounter complications generated by medieval thought and twenty-first century medicine and neurology alike. Our understanding of modern-day neurology, psychiatry, disability studies, and psychology rests on shifting sands. Not only do we struggle with… Continue reading
Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation Special Disability Studies Themed Issue The Journal of Humanities in Rehabilitation is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open-access journal. We are currently seeking submissions that can further the relationship and conversation between disability studies and the rehabilitation fields. We are particularly interested in pieces that explore the ways disability studies and rehabilitation… Continue reading
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers Special Issue: Autism Narratives Guest Editors: Stuart Murray (English, University of Leeds) & Mark Osteen (English, Loyola University Maryland) 2018 will mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of two major studies on the cultural representations of autism, Stuart Murray’s monographRepresenting Autism: Culture, Narrative,… Continue reading
Deadline for proposals: 30th September 2016 Public Health Panorama (March 2017 Issue) calls for submission of papers for a special issue on the “cultural contexts of health (CCH) in the European Region”. This issue will be published in March 2017 in conjunction with the third WHO Expert Advisory Group meeting on CCH. Culture and health… Continue reading
Matters of the Mind: The Materialities of Mental Ill-Health and Distress Deadline: 22nd May 2016 From medications to diagnostic manuals, somatic sensations to brain images, the landscape of mental health and illness is replete with diverse materialities. Against the background of a wider ‘material turn’ across the social sciences and humanities, this edited collection will… Continue reading
Special issue of Disability and the Global South: Intersecting Indigeneity, Colonisation and Disability Guest Editors: Karen Soldatic (The Critical Institute) and John Gilroy (University of Sydney) Deadline for abstracts: 1st September 2016 There is growing global recognition of the role of disability in shaping the lives of Indigenous peoples and the significance of having an Indigenous cultural… Continue reading
Children’s literature, Lois Keith argues, has long tended to use disability and illness as metaphors, as “devices to bring the character through a period of trial and desolation into the bright light of resolution and a happy ending” (2001, 194). Where they were depicted at all, disabled and ill characters have mainly been described in terms… Continue reading
Disability & Society, ‘Learning from the Past: Building the Future’ Deadline: 31st August 2016 Special Issue Call for Papers It has been more than 30 years since Disability & Society first began publishing. The journal now provides a world-leading focus for debate about such issues as human rights, discrimination, definitions, policy and practices against a background of… Continue reading
Critical disability studies has been a continually growing field of academic study. Its intersectional approach is frequently used in political and philosophical theorizing. However, very few scholars have paid attention to how disability has been constructed by dominant media institutions in the 21st century. This is true even when scholars focus on the social model of… Continue reading
