Publications

Call for Papers

Making the cut? Scientific Possibilities and Ethical, Legal and Social Implications and Challenges in Genome-Editing (Call for Papers, Palgrave Communications)

Palgrave Communications – the multi and interdisciplinary, open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan, part of Springer Nature – is currently inviting article proposals and full papers for a new research article series, entitled ‘Making the cut? Scientific Possibilities and Ethical, Legal and Social Implications and Challenges in Genome-Editing’. This is being edited Read more…

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Call for Papers

Challenging Medical Knowledge Translation – Convergence and Divergence of Translation across Epistemic and Cultural Boundaries (Call for Abstracts, Palgrave Communications)

Palgrave Communications – the multi and interdisciplinary, open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan, part of Springer Nature – is currently inviting article proposals and full papers for a new research article series, entitled ‘Challenging Medical Knowledge Translation’. This is being edited by Professor John Ødemark (Associate Professor of Cultural History and Cultural Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, ago
Call for Papers

What Guns Mean: The Symbolic Lives of Firearms (CfP, Palgrave Communications)

Palgrave Communications – the multi and interdisciplinary, open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan, part of Springer Nature – is currently inviting article proposals and full papers for a new research article collection, entitled ‘What Guns Mean: The Symbolic Lives of Firearms’. The collection is being edited by Professor Jonathan M Metzl (Frederick Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, ago
Call for Papers

“Language, Discourse and Mental Health” (call for book proposals, University of Exeter Press)

The editors are very pleased to announce the new book series “Language, Discourse and Mental Health” published with the University of Exeter Press. This book series is a unique resource to further knowledge and understanding of mental health from a pluralistically informed linguistic perspective. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches to Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, ago
Call for Papers

Anti-biosis? – Social and Cultural Inquiries into Human-Microbe Relations (CfP, Palgrave Communications, Deadline extended til May)

Palgrave Communications – the multidisciplinary, open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan – is currently inviting article proposals and full papers for a new research article collection. ‘Anti-biosis? – Interdisciplinary Approaches to Microbe-Human Relations’ will be edited by Professor Steve Hinchliffe (University of Exeter, UK), Professor Clare Chandler (London School Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, ago
Call for Papers

The Affective Aesthetics of the Body in Pain (CfP, Special Issue: The Polish Journal of Aesthetics)

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics invites contributions for a Special Issue “The Affective Aesthetics of The Body in Pain”, 51 (4/2018). The editors of this issue are Luz Mar González-Arias (University of Oviedo, Spain) and Monika Glosowitz (University of Silesia, Poland). In this special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics we Read more…

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Call for Papers

The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities 2018: Call for Papers (deadline 15 March 2018)

The PJMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, based at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History, is now accepting submissions for articles and book reviews for its fifth edition. The journal, an online interdisciplinary publication authored and edited by postgraduate students, will be publishing professional peer-reviewed research and book Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, ago
Arts in Health

Call for Creative Work (Translating Chronic Pain)

The AHRC-funded research network Translating Chronic Pain: A Critical and Creative Research Network is an eighteen month interdisciplinary critical/creative project based at Lancaster University. Our goal is to bring together people living with persistent pain, representatives from pain charities, creative writers, academics, and medical practitioners. We aim to better represent chronic pain experience by Read more…

By mdiclhumanities, ago
Call for Papers

Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics (CfP, abstracts deadline 01 Feb 2018)

The Medical Humanities seeks to create lively dialogue between the humanities and social sciences, and medical understandings of health, wellbeing and the body. Recent work in the Medical Humanities has highlighted the need to draw on critical perspectives, including feminist thought, to develop more nuanced understandings of the ways in Read more…

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Centre for Medical Humanities