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Healthcare in Motion: Mobility Forms in Health Service Delivery and Access Editors: Cecilia Vindrola-Padros (UCL), Anne E. Pfister (UNF), and Ginger A. Johnson (Anthrologica) Healthcare in Motion will explore the diversity of mobility forms associated with healthcare. It will consider both mobility and healthcare as complex cultural and political processes, which are influenced by global… Continue reading →

From Christina Lee and Freya Harrison’s discovery of the MRSA-combatting properties of an Anglo-Saxon recipe, to the increasing popularity of Ian Williams’ Graphic Medicine as a teaching tool for medical students, current research into the intersections between medicine, text, and image is producing dynamic and unexpected results (Thorpe: 2015; Lee and Harrison: 2015; Taavitsainen: 2010;… Continue reading →

How does science inspire the literary imagination? Can science writing be a literary art? The Kenyon Review is looking for poetry, fiction, essays, and drama that respond to issues in science, ecology, and the environment for a special issue to be published in Sept/Oct 2016. Good science writing isn’t only about science: it is also… Continue reading →

Special issue: Literature for Young People Guest editors: Chloë Hughes and Elizabeth A. Wheeler This special issue of the JLCDS aims to bring together an international and multidisciplinary base of readers and writers who explore disability in literature published for young people. While disability and deafness have often featured in literature for young people, their… Continue reading →

RiDE: the Journal of Applied Theatre & Performance Special themed issue: International Perspectives on Performance, Disability, and Deafness Co-edited by Carrie Sandahl (University of Illinois at Chicago), Yvonne Schmidt (Zurich University of the Arts), and Mark Swetz Advisory editor: Petra Kuppers (University of Michigan) This themed issue of RiDE, entitled ‘International Perspectives on Performance, Disability, and Deafness’… Continue reading →

Materialities of Care: Encountering Health and Illness Through Artefacts and Architecture Editors: Christina Buse, Daryl Martin, and Sarah Nettleton (University of York) Proposals are invited for the 24th Sociology of Health and Illness Monograph, which explores the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, interiors and architecture. Everyday… Continue reading →

Special Issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities: “Pre-Health Humanities” Guest Editors:  Sarah Berry and Erin Lamb We invite submissions for a special issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities that will explore the expanding field of Pre-Health Humanities or Health Humanities teaching and engagement at the pre-professional (i.e., baccalaureate or post-bacc levels). There are… Continue reading →

  Philosophy of Disability Deadline for Submission: 1st February 2016 Prize: $3,000 Call for Papers Res Philosophica invites papers on the topic of the philosophy of disability for the 2016 Res Philosophica Essay Prize and a special issue of the journal. The author of the winning paper will receive a prize of $3,000, and the… Continue reading →

Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies Special issue: Drama, Theatrical Performance, and Disability Guest editors: Ann M. Fox and Carrie Sandahl   This special issue of JCLDS will consider the representation of disability in drama and theatrical performance. The performance of disability in film, television, and popular culture has received considerable attention within disability… Continue reading →