An MLA network for scholars engaged in the study of representations of health, illness, and health professions.
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A. David Lewis deposited Diagnosis Deafness in Cancer Comics in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 1 day, 19 hours agoA brief piece on what I call “diagnosis deafness.” In short, to depict the sudden disorientation and shock of being diagnosed with cancer, comics artists frequently employ a visual rhetoric usually reserved for instances of deafness. At least momentarily – during an immensely significant moment in the life of the character – words fail, dev…[Read more]
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Jesse Miller deposited Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke’s Modernist Equipment for Living in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 2 days agoThis essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke’s early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better…[Read more]
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Pamela K. Gilbert deposited Introduction to _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_. in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week agoThis is the Introduction to my new book, _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_.
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Thomas Lawrence Long replied to the topic MHHS CFPs for MLA 2020 in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 2 months agoTimely, significant, with interesting possibilities!
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Erin Lamb started the topic MHHS CFPs for MLA 2020 in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 2 months agoGreetings all,
Please see the CFPs below from the Forum on Medical Humanities and Health Studies. Brief abstracts are due Sunday, March 3. MLA 2020 will take place January 9-12 in Seattle, WA.
LGTB Health Humanities
Intersections of health, gender, and sexuality, including interdisciplinary approaches to health activism from HIV/AIDS to t…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine (HUM450AJ.O) syllabus in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoAt the intersection of comics and medicine is the rise of the Graphic Medicine scholarship field. This course examines the ways in which the sequentialized hybrid of word and image is bringing new insights to patient, healthcare, and clinical experiences.
In any manner of ways, the comics medium (whether known as comic books, graphic novels,…[Read more]
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Andrea Charise started the topic MLA 2019: Health Humanities & Digital Life Roundtable – abstracts/presenter info in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoPlease see the presenter info and abstracts for the MLA 2019 Roundtable, “Health Humanities and Digital Life.”
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203: Health Humanities and Digital Life
Time: 8:30AM-9:45AM – Friday Jan 4 2019
Location: Hyatt Regency – Columbus H
Description: This interdisciplinary roundtable is a critical exploration of the intersection of medical and hea…[Read more] -
Thomas Lawrence Long replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 months agoThank you, Tana Jean! –Tom
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 months agoCorrection: Submit 250- to 500-word abstracts and a CV, by January 5, 2019, to Tana Jean Welch, Florida State University College of Medicine, at tana.welch@med.fsu.edu
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Thomas Lawrence Long replied to the topic Jess Waggoner: TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 months agoThanks for your willingness to serve, Jess. –Tom Long
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Jessica Waggoner started the topic Jess Waggoner: TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 months, 1 week agoHello everyone!
My name is Jess Waggoner and I am running for the MLA TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Executive Committee. At MLA’s suggestion, I wanted to use this space to introduce myself and some of my goals.
I currently serve as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of H…[Read more]
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Olivia Banner deposited Structural Racism and Practices of Reading in the Medical Humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThis article argues that the humanities and medicine fields have paid insufficient attention to race, which is reflected in and enabled by the apolitical nature of their cornerstone principles, their practices of literary interpretation, and their paucity of scholarship on writers of color. I examine the fields’ interpretation of Audre Lorde’s ill…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery: Connecting Communities for Mental Health and Well-Being in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 12 months agoPaul Crawford from the International Health Humanities Network at the University of Nottingham has shared a digital showcase of their extensive, multi-year ARTS and HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL funded program […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Practical Resources for Anyone Involved in Interdisciplinary Research in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 1 year agoFour New Project Shorts published for Working Knowledge: practical resources for anyone involved in interdisciplinary […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Community Wellbeing & Transformation in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 1 year agoThe deadline for abstracts (1st May) is fast approaching for the 7th International Health Humanities Conference to be held in the historic city of Southampton, Hampshire, UK.
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Medical Rhetoric CCCC 2019 Roundtable in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 1 year agoMedical Rhetoric CCCC 2019 Roundtable CFP
Roundtable Objective
The roundtable aims to foster interactive discussions between and around these issues and among presenters and the audience. To this end, we invite […] -
Thomas Lawrence Long edited the post Medical Humanities Career Day (Drew U, Madison, NJ) in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 1 year agoDrew University Medical Humanities Career Day April 11th 630pm-9pm in Crawford Hall, Einger Center
Join us on Wednesday, April 11th from 630 pm-9 pm in Crawford Hall, Einger Center for Medical Humanities Career Day. In the first half of the event, former Drew University Medical Humanities Alumni will discuss the different trajectories they took…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Madness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 1 year agoMadness and Literature: What Fiction Can Do for the Understanding of Mental Illness
Philosophers have considered the relation between madness and literature since Plato’s Phaedrus. Mental illness has been a […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Symposium: Opening Doors: from the medical to the health humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoDrew University will be hosting a symposium: “Opening Doors: from the medical to the health humanities” on Friday, March 23rd from 230pm to 8pm at Drew University in Madison, NJ.
The theme of the event is an […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Crossroads of Medicine and Religion, 1200-1800 in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month agoAngelical Conjunctions: Crossroads of Medicine and Religion, 1200-1800
McGill University on April 13-15, 2019
“Angelical Conjunction” was the term coined by the seventeenth-century New England Puritan Cotton […] - Load More
