An MLA network for scholars engaged in the study of representations of health, illness, and health professions.
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Thomas Lawrence Long edited the post Call for Nominations: MLA forums executive committees in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 1 day, 19 hours agoThe MLA has opened the call for nominations (of yourself or others) to forum executive committees, including the Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum. Current executive committee members will review these and select one from the membership nominees to run in an election against an executive committee nominee. This is a superb way of ge…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post ISO: Authors for New Blog in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 1 week agoWe are pleased to announce the launch of Medical and Health Humanities (www.medicalhealthhumanities.com), an online publication designed to bring together humanities scholars and students from across institutions […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Six fallacies that hinder development of the medical humanities in medical education in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 3 weeks agoBleakley, A. (2017), Six fallacies that hinder development of the medical humanities in medical education. Med Educ, 51: 126–127. doi:10.1111/medu.13236
“Comments on an article by Lara Varpio et al. (see r […]
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 5 days agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Health Humanities & Arts in Health International Symposium, Derby Enterprise Centre, UK in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 4 weeks agoHealth Humanities & Arts in Health International Symposium 27 & 28th November 2017
Derby Enterprise Centre, UKThe Symposium will present and explore the latest research and provide an opportunity to share […]
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 2 months, 1 week agoLiterature, Medicine & Medical Humanities (https://medicalhumanities.mla.hcommons.org/) is the new featured site on the MLA Commons homepage (https://mla.hcommons.org/).
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Thomas Lawrence Long edited the post CFP: Methods of Health Humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoCFP: Methods of Health Humanities
Chapter proposals due July 1, 2017
The health humanities are taking shape as a unique field of study, promoted through international organizations and journals, formalized through a wide variety of curricular structures with similarly varied learning objectives. This diversity raises the question of what…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoAnnouncing New Journal: Rhetoric of Health & Medicine (RHM)
Co-editors Lisa Meloncon (University of South Florida) and Blake Scott (University of Central Florida) are pleased to announce the official launch of […] -
Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoPerspectives in Biology and Medicine is especially interested in publishing more essays in all areas of the humanities as they connect with medicine, biology, and ethics. A Johns Hopkins University press journal, […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Medical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environment in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoMedical Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Environment Conference (CfP, Harvard University, 29-30 September 2017)
In the present age of the Anthropocene, the extraordinary transformations of Earth’s c […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post CFP: Negotiating Technologies of Health, Identity and Governance in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoMonitoring the Self: Negotiating Technologies of Health, Identity and Governance (CfP, Helsinki, 8–10 November 2017)
This conference is organized by the Nordic Network Gender Body Health, in c […]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Educating Nurses through Art in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 3 months, 4 weeks ago“The Art of Nursing is a collaborative program between the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Virginia Commonwealth University. It invites nursing students to consider how perception plays a crucial role in patient care.”
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new post Medicina Historica in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoMEDICINA HISTORICA is the new official journal of the Italian Society of History of Medicine. The Journal started in 1910 as Rivista di Storia delle Scienze Mediche e Naturali, and it changed its title to Rivista […]
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Erin Lamb started the topic CFP: Methods of Health Humanities in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week agoCFP: Methods of Health Humanities
Chapter proposals due July 1, 2017
The health humanities are taking shape as a unique field of study, promoted through international organizations and journals, formalized through a wide variety of curricular structures with similarly varied learning objectives. This diversity raises the question of what…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic still time — international Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium May 5-6 in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoI am posting the following on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo:
Dear Colleagues,
We hope you’ll consider joining us at Harvard Medical School in Boston on May 5-6 for the international Hippocrates Symposium on Poetry and Medicine. This gathering of health humanities scholars and poets from around the globe is being convened this ye…[Read more]
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Alvan Ikoku posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago“Health, Humanities, and Insecurity”
MLA ‘18 NY Conference Forum PanelHow does work at the meeting of health and humanities address contemporary questions about
precarity and insecurity? Panel will draw from a range of literatures, theories, and methods to explore these questions.Send 300-word abstract and CV to Alvan Ikoku, ikoku…[Read more]
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suzanne lalonde posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 6 months ago“Trauma and Literature”
MLA ‘18 NY Conference Special SessionHow precisely might literature prove therapeutic to those who have endured traumatic experiences and how might it fail to heal? Drawing on pieces of literature as well as theories from illness narratives, narrative medicine, and trauma theories, among others, this panel seeks resea…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long wrote a new blog post CFP: ASBH in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 6 months, 4 weeks agoAmerican Society for Bioethics and Humanities 19th Annual Meeting
October 19-22, 2017
Kansas City, MO
The 2017 Call for Proposals is Open
until 11:59 Pacific Time, Friday, March 3, 2017
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Thomas Lawrence Long edited the blog post CFP: Dis-eased: Critical Approaches to Disability and Illness in American Studies in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies: on MLA Commons 7 months agoThe deadline for submissions to the COPAS special issue “Dis-eased: Critical Approaches to Disability and Illness in American Studies” is February 15. Please feel free to encourage your M.A. and PhD students to send in some of their work.
You can find the CFP, submission guidelines as well as a template on the journal’s website: http://copas.uni…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic major poetry and medicine events and awards at Harvard Medical School in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 7 months agoPosted on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo, rcampo@bidmc.harvard.edu:
Call for Proposals: 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium at Harvard Medical School on 6th May 2017
Proposals for abstracts and oral presentation are now being accepted for 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium, to be convened at Harva…[Read more]
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