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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Health, Culture and Society: Translating Happiness: Medicine, Culture and Social Progress

This year the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) proclaimed March 20th the International Day of Happiness. This day is premised on international recognition of the pursuit of happiness as a fundamental human goal, and a means of promoting sustainable development. International acknowledgement of the important role that happiness plays in development is also displayed in the 2012 World Happiness Report, as well as a host of recent changes to national social policies, community infrastructures and health services.

This special issue of Health, Culture and Society (HCS) explores the multiple and contested ways of knowing happiness. We are particularly interested in research that analyzes the translations of happiness. According to Nikolas Rose, translation provides for the possibility of government: “In the dynamics of translation, alignments are forged between the objectives of those wishing to govern and the personal projects of those organizations, groups, and individuals who are the subjects of government” (1999, p. 48). This issue aims to construct a comprehensive picture of the important role that translations of happiness – as made to appear in social philosophy, featured in the emerging field of positive psychology, mapped in global happiness indexes, or communicated in concepts such as ‘well-being’ or ‘quality of life’ – play in contemporary understandings of the ‘human’ and ‘human development.’ Papers are sought that explore the relations between happiness and health, and examine the social, cultural and political contexts of medical translations of happiness. Papers that share comparative analyses of happiness or that adopt a critical paradigm and analyze the role of conceptions of happiness in the diagnosis of individual and social ills and the reproduction of inequality are especially welcome.

Potential topic areas include:

• Happiness and Disability/Disablement/Ableism

• Happiness, Health Services and Social Policy

• Politicization of Happiness (Happiness Indexes)

• Cartographies of Happiness (e.g., ‘Happiness Maps’)

• Happiness and Constructions of ‘the Human’/Humanity

• Economic Paradigms of Happiness

• Ecological Perspectives

• Happiness and National Development (e.g., Gross National Happiness and/vs. Gross National Domestic Product)

• Happiness and Imperialism/The Colonial Continuum

• Happiness and Racialization/Racism

• Happiness and Global Governance

• Happiness and Self-Governance (e.g., The Emergence of Self-Help Literature)

• Happiness and Choice/The Making of the ‘Rational Subject’

• Happiness and Disciplinary Knowledge

• Happiness and Social Order (incl.: Happiness and Social Change; Happiness and the Pathologization of Resistance)

• Genealogies of Happiness (Historical Perspectives)

• Happiness Across the Lifecycle/The Role of Happiness in ‘Positive’ or Healthy Aging

• Happiness, Identity and Community/Solidarity and Subjective Well-being

• Happiness, Gender and Sexuality

• Happiness and Patriarchy

• Happiness, Heterosexism and Homophobia

• Happiness and Spirituality

• Happiness, Leisure and Lifestyle

• The Commodification of Happiness/Happiness and Consumer Culture

• (Re)Discovering (Un)Happiness – Diagnostic Tools and their Discontents (e.g., The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition)

• Happiness, Resilience and Recovery

• A Poetics of Happiness/Happiness and the Art of Living

• Happiness and Desire

• Happiness and a Politics of Love

• Embodiment and Happiness Research/Phenomenological Perspectives

Interested contributors are invited to send a 250 word proposal to katieaubrecht@gmail.com no later than July 15th. Prospective contributors will be notified of acceptance by July 30th. For accepted proposals full papers will be due September 27th. Manuscripts submitted for inclusion in this special issue must be in APA format, be original work and should not be under consideration by any other journal.

Works Cited:

Rose, N. (1999). Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

About the Journal:

Health,Culture and Society (HCS) is an important contribution to the medical humanities and the social history of health. It will promote critical studies, disseminate important contemporary research and act as an international podium for the exchange of new ideas, strategies and practices. The journal is geared towards an inter-disciplinary approach to issues of health, culture and society inviting contributions from a diversity of fields. HCS will reflect the very real developments in ideas that shape our modern understandings of health, and how cultural and social factors are important to its paradigm. The journal encourages original and funded research into regional developments which can impact upon the global image of health, society and culture.

HCS is the product of initiative, research and debate centered on the history and development of the health paradigm. The facilitation of the University of Pittsburgh, the CNPq and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, as well as the Wellcome Trust and the University of Western Santa Catarina (UnoChapeco), made it possible to eventually bring together important and emerging voices in the debate of health which define the new critical perspectives, and research from the physical and social sciences. HCS serves as a platform which has been developed to meet the contemporary necessity for international dialogue, partnerships, collaboration, knowledge transformation and global integration.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Gothic Studies: the Gothic and Medical Humanities

Proposals are invited for a special issue of Gothic Studies exploring intersections between the Gothic and medical humanities.

Gothic studies has long grappled with suffering bodies, and the fragility of human flesh in the grip of medical and legal discourse continues to be manifest in chilling literature and film. The direction of influence goes both ways: Gothic literary elements have arguably influenced medical writing, such as the nineteenth-century clinical case study. In this second decade of the twenty-first century, it seems apt to freshly examine intersections between the two fields.

The closing years of the twentieth century saw the emergence of medical humanities, an interdisciplinary blend of humanities and social science approaches under the dual goals of using arts to enhance medical education and interrogating medical practice and discourse. Analysis of period medical discourse, legal categories and medical technologies can enrich literary criticism in richly contextualising fictional works within medical practices. Such criticism can be seen as extending the drive towards historicised and localised criticism that has characterised much in Gothic studies in recent decades.

Our field offers textual strategies for analysing the processes by which medical discourse, medical processes and globalised biotechnological networks can, at times, do violence to human bodies and minds – both of patient and practitioner. Cultural studies of medicine analyse and unmask this violence. This special issue will explore Gothic representations of the way medical practice controls, classifies and torments the body in the service of healing.

Essays could address any of the following in any period, eighteenth-century to the present:

Medical discourse as itself Gothic (e.g., metaphors in medical writing; links between case histories and the Gothic tradition), and/or reflections on how specific medical discourses have shaped Gothic literary forms

Illness narratives and the Gothic (e.g., using Arthur Frank’s ‘chaos narratives’ of helplessness inThe Wounded Storyteller).

Literary texts about medical processes as torture/torment in specific historical and geographic contexts (including contemporary contexts)

Doctors or nurses represented in literature as themselves

Gothic ‘victims’, constrained by their medical environment

Genetic testing; organ harvest; genetic engineering; reproductive technologies; limb prostheses; human cloning, and more.

To date the links between Gothic and psychiatric medical discourse have been the most thoroughly explored, so preference will be given to articles exploring other, non-psychiatric medical contexts in the interests of opening up new connections.

Please email 500-word abstract and curriculum vitae to Dr Sara Wasson,s.wasson@napier.ac.uk. Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2013.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine: The Rise of Developmental Science: Debates on Health and Humanity

Guest Editors

Dominique P Béhague, Vanderbilt University & King’s College London

Samuel Lézé, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Social Science & Medicine is soliciting papers for a Special Interdisciplinary Issue on the unique challenges arising in the creation of child/adolescent developmental expertise throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Since the Enlightenment, the child’s developmental journey to adulthood has served as a prism for philosophical and scientific formulations of what it means to be healthy, normal, and human. Relative to other subfields in psychiatry and psychology, however, the focus on child/adolescent development and mental illness is both new and increasingly contested. As clinicians begin to work with an ever younger patient-population, critics from both outside and within relevant fields have begun sounding warning bells, since much of the evidence about early intervention, “normal/abnormal” development and treatment is uncertain and prone to undue pathologisation. Thus, experts are also calling for increased interdisciplinarity to better account for the unpredictability of development and the socio-cultural, economic, and biological heterogeneity in which normal/abnormal development and mental illness unfold.

Taking child/adolescent developmental expertise as an object of socio-cultural analysis, this special issue aims to explore how normative and marginal trends in this scientific subfield evolve in diverse socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts. The call builds on an existing set of manuscripts drawn from a workshop co-sponsored by Brunel University and the Royal Anthropological Institute entitled “The Rise of Child Science and Psy-expertise” (London, May 29-30, 2012).(i) We welcome submissions that consider the institutionalized worlds of science, medicine and education alongside the everyday lives of children and youth from historical and/or contemporary perspectives. Papers should be both empirically-based and theoretically informed. As we aim to influence core practices in science, medicine and policy, authors are also invited, though not required, to consider how the critical study of expert knowledge – and the diversity that exists therein -- can inform constructive debate on how best to produce and apply this knowledge.

Paper topics may include:

Comparative analysis of distinct ethno-psychiatric/psychological traditions and of normative and marginal research trends in child/adolescent science and clinical practice, including their institutionalized and increasingly globalized applications
Intersection of child/adolescent science and policy-development; e.g. growing interest in prevention and early intervention; emerging work on adolescent brain plasticity and implications for public policy and juridical practice

Implications of diverse trends in developmental science and child psychiatry for pedagogy, including psychologization of learning and school life through specific diagnoses (ADHD) and broader concepts (well-being, self-esteem, mindfulness)

Social vulnerability, ethnicity, inequity and minority status in child development research and clinical practice; global humanitarianism and medicalization of traumatic experience in children and youth

Popular uses and interpretations of emerging models of child development by advocacy groups, with special attention to the recent turn towards “child-centric” research and constructs of child agency

Interaction between “child” and “adult” categories in science, e.g. the methodological and conceptual tensions that research on child/adolescent development injects into mainstream adult psychiatry/psychology

Biologization of the child/adolescent in biopsychiatry and neuroscience, e.g. the adolescent brain; mother-infant bonding; geneticization; pharmaceuticalization

Authors can submit their papers any time after October 1st and up until the 31st of December 2013. Online submission can be found at: http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm. When asked to choose article type, please stipulate ‘Special Issue: Child Development Expertise.’ In the ‘Enter Comments’ box, the title of the Special Issue, along with any further acknowledgements, should be inserted. All submissions should meet Social Science & Medicine author guidelines (http://ees.elsevier.com/ssm). Please contact Dominique.Behague@Vanderbilt.edu and Samuel.Leze@ens-lyon.fr for further questions.

(i) http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/anthropology/news-and-events/events/ne_163209

Call for Papers for the Series History and Philosophy of Technoscience

There is a popular view that science discovers and technology applies, a view that is increasingly under threat. Technoscience refers to a growing number of fields such as nanotechnology, synthetic biology and climate studies where it is not possible to separate the scientific from the technological. This series addresses historical and philosophical issues surrounding technoscientific research and explores the rich and complex interconnection between science and technology, a connection that has been moulded by centuries of engagement with real world problems.

We invite submissions from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author's biography and an anticipated submission date.

Send your proposals to:

Alfred Nordmann nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de

Philip Good pgood@pickeringchatto.co.uk

Forum for the History of the Human Sciences/Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences John C. Burnham Early Career Award

The Forum for History of Human Science invites submissions for the John C. Burnham Early Career Award for 2013. This award is intended for scholars, including graduate students, who do not hold a tenured position and are not more than seven years past the Ph.D. Unpublished manuscripts dealing with any aspect of the history of the human sciences are welcome.

The winning article will be announced at the annual History of Science Society meeting, and will be submitted to the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences with FHHS endorsement, to undergo the regular review process.

When the article is accepted for publication, the publisher of JHBS will announce the award and issue a US $500 honorarium.

The manuscript cannot be submitted to any other journal and still qualify for this award.

Email manuscript and curriculum vitae (PDF format) by June 30, 2013, to Nadine Weidman(weidman@fas.harvard.edu)

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Psicologia em Pesquisa on the History of Psychology

Psicologia em Pesquisa, a Brazilian journal edited by the Graduate Program in Psychology of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, is preparing, together with the Working Group on the History of Psychology of the ANPEPP (Brazilian National Association of Graduate Training in Psychology), a Special International Issue dedicated to the History of Psychology. The Guest Editors are Sérgio Cirino (Federal University of Minas Gerais) and Annette Mülberger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Paper manuscript submissions are encouraged with a focus on topics related to the broad field of the history of psychology, including theoretical and methodological discussions, empirical studies and literature reviews. Manuscripts should follow the general guidelines of the APA (American Psychological Association, Publication Manual, 5th ed., Washington, DC) and cannot exceed 30 double-spaced pages (including references). For more details, see our website: http://www.ufjf.br/psicologiaempesquisa/1632-2/

Manuscripts can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese to revista.psicologiaempesquisa@ufjf.edu.br.

The deadline for the submission of manuscripts to this special issue is July 31, 2013.

Call for Contributions to The Gazette of the Society for the Social History of Medicine

We are always interested in receiving contributions for The Gazette, which we send out with our journal. Conference reports and pictures (500 words maximum), advertisements for conferences, lectures, events or awards, links to blogs or digitization projects, general news in the field... -- all are welcome!

Please send your contributions, or questions about potential contributions, to Katherine Foxhall (foxhall@sshm.org).

The submission deadlines for 2013 are as follows:

16 January

16 April

16 July

15 October

Call for Contributions to The Gazette of the Society for the Social History of Medicine

We are always interested in receiving contributions for The Gazette, which we send out with our journal. Conference reports and pictures (500 words maximum), advertisements for conferences, lectures, events or awards, links to blogs or digitization projects, general news in the field... -- all are welcome!

Please send your contributions, or questions about potential contributions, to Katherine Foxhall (foxhall@sshm.org).

The submission deadlines for 2013 are as follows:

16 January

16 April

16 July

15 October