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 baccalaureate level. There are increasingly diverse… Continue reading
Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities Edited by Carol Schilling (Haverford College) and Mark Osteen (Loyola University Maryland) For a Special Issue of JMH tentatively titled “Love’s Labors: Representing Caregiving in the Family,” we seek scholarly essays on the topic of non-professional, familial caregiving. We prefer papers written by academicians… Continue reading
As part of the Wellcome Trust funded project ‘Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities’, the BMJ Group journal Medical Humanities will be publishing a special issue guest-edited by Dr Gavin Miller, University of Glasgow. We invite papers of broad interest to an international readership of medical humanities scholars and practising clinicians on the topic ‘Science… Continue reading
Mental Illness: Reflections in Popular Culture (Praeger/ABC-Clio, 2017) Pop culture addresses mental illness in informal ways, sometimes striving to understand the rationale behind irrational acts, while many mental health professionals and health advocates “blame” pop culture for sensationalizing and stigmatizing mental illness and perpetuating stereotypes. This 30-chapter volume compares society’s changing reactions to mental illness, as seen through… Continue reading
Syracuse University Press invites proposals for its award-winning Critical Perspectives on Disability series. The series explores the place of people with disabilities in society through the lens of disability studies, critical special education, disability law and disability legal studies, and international human rights. Scholars from Syracuse University guide the series as editors and offer diverse approaches from the university¹s Center on… Continue reading
The Journal of Narrative Theory invites submissions that further the discussion of disabling and enabling narratives from a disability studies perspective. JNT is a forum for the theoretical exploration of individual narrative texts and of the intersections between narrative, history, ideology, and culture more broadly. Essays might engage with topics such as literature and dis/enabling environments… Continue reading
Palgrave Communications is a new high-quality, open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan, that covers all fields of research within the social sciences, humanities and (HSS) business. The journal is supported by a large international Editorial Board, comprising distinguished academics and researchers from a wide spectrum of fields, including health and medical humanities. Palgrave Communications’ broad… Continue reading
Magazine Launch and Readings – Friday 24th April 2015 All are welcome to celebrate the first edition of The Lumen, a magazine for new literature and visual art that arose from a student-led medical humanities group in Edinburgh. The Lumen intends to provide a forum for the expression of the unique aspects of the medical encounter. The evening will feature:… Continue reading
A major new book by Professor Paul Crawford and colleagues provides the world’s first manifesto for the new field of health humanities. Professor Crawford pioneered the global development of health humanities in 2008, founding both the International Health Humanities Network and Madness and Literature Network with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Alongside… Continue reading
