Medical Humanities calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color: Race, Gender, and Disability

Abstracts Due: 6/1/13

Manuscripts Due: 10/20/2013

Despite discourse on gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity or gender and disability, there are few studies about the intersections of race, gender and disability from a critical perspective. This issue will focus on articles that analyze these intersections from different disciplinary perspectives. Categories include interrogations into the lives of people of color and white subjects from a critical whiteness perspective; gender as it encompasses interrogations of femininity, masculinity, transgender, or intersex subjectivity and any form of sexual expression and identity and their intersection; and disability to encompass impairment and the socio-cultural aspects that accompany it.

Topics include but not limited to:

Family caregiving or parenting at the intersections of gender/race/disability

Lived experiences of disabled women/people of color

Representations of disability in families of color in films and literature

News and media representations of race, disability and gender/sexuality

Historical analysis that highlights these intersections (e.g., eugenics)

Policy, activism and interventions that empower disabled people of color

Articles connecting disability studies, queer theory and women's studies to critical race theory and critical whiteness studies

Analysis of policies related to education, employment, immigration and incarceration that centers on the intersections of race, gender and ability.

Contact: Guest-Editors Sandy Magana, maganas@uic.edu; Liat Ben Moshe, lbenmosh@uic.edu, University of Wisconsin.

CORST Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture

The $1,000 CORST Essay Prize recognizes the best essay on psychoanalytically informed research in the biobehavioral sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The winning essay will be presented at the APsaA National Meeting and will be reviewed for publication by The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Sponsor

Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST)

Eligibility Criteria

Essay can be no longer than 30 pages in length and should neither have been published nor submitted for publication.

Application deadline: September 20, 2013

Contact

Essays should be electronically submitted to: Geralyn Lederman, Ph.D., Director of Public Affairs.

For additional questions, contact Lewis Kirshner, M.D.

Call for Submissions: Cancer Narratives: Words Beyond Disease

Submissions from all members of the cancer care community are encouraged. Learners at all levels; anyone involved with cancer care, including nurses, supportive care providers, and pharmacists; and patients and their loved ones are all welcome to contribute. The focus should be on issues or themes of general relevance considered from a personal or unique perspective. Clear, creative writing describing the struggles, conflicts, joys, and other emotions encountered in clinical practice and having the potential for resonance within the broader cancer community are strongly encouraged. Write to educate, advise, inspire, move, or challenge us.

For full details on the submission process, please visit the Information for Authors page at Current Oncology on the Web: http://www.current-oncology.com/index.php/oncology/about/submissions.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Canadian Literature: Science & Canadian Literature

Science & Canadian Literature is a special issue dedicated to the subject of science in/and Canadian poetry and prose.

In the three decades since the last science-themed issue of Canadian Literature appeared, much has changed in both literary and scientific circles. New literary theories have come to shape our critical conversations, new Canadian authors have emerged, publishing has been fundamentally changed with the advent of the Internet; at the same time, sheep have been cloned, food has been genetically modified, computers have shrunk to pocket size. And neither of these circles exists in isolation: each has affected the other, with differences that have made a difference (to borrow the language of ecologist Gregory Bateson) across the disciplinary boundaries.

Canadian writers frequently engage science as a topic in both poetry and prose, and have achieved international recognition for this work. High-profile writers who have special literary interests in science, such as Atwood, Gibson, and Bök, are only part of the story: many other writers engage science as part of their oeuvre, including writers of poetry (Dewdney, McKay, Sarah, Outram, Ormsby), fiction (Wright, Bowling, Lam, Brand, Wong), and non-fiction (Grady, Major, Suzuki, Savage, de Villiers).

Science is commonly perceived as a universal, trans-national entity, but it is interesting to combine it with a national perspective: is there a way in which Canadian literature reframes science as a literary subject? Does a Canadian context influence writing about science (both literary and scientific)? Are there special concerns or issues about science that occur in Canadian writing? While not all articles in the issue need address the nationalism question, we encourage submissions with an eye to the Canadian context.

While the issue is focused on science as theme or form in literature (or on science as literature), not on science fiction or speculative fiction, studies that focus on specific scientific issues or hard science in science fiction (as opposed to social or political topics, ethics, etc.) are welcome (for example: genetic engineering in Oryx and Crake).

Suggested areas for investigation:

Scientific theories and Canadian literature

Scientific language and metaphors in Canadian literature

Scientific aspects of medicine and Canadian literature

Science, material culture and literature

Computers/computer science in literature

Science, the environment/ ecology/ natural history and Canadian literature

Scientist-biography as a literary subject in Canada or by Canadian writers

The representation of scientists in Canadian literature

Poetics and science in Canadian writing

Science and/as literary form in Canadian writing

Science and society in Canadian literature

Canadian writers of science in an international context (the Canadian expat scientist)

Canada as a scientific subject

The "culture/science wars" from a Canadian perspective

Science writing in Canada

’Pataphysics’ ("the science of imaginary solutions," cf. Bök) as scientific/literary work

Science-technology in Canadian literature

All submissions to Canadian Literature must be original, unpublished work. Essays should follow current MLA bibliographic format (MLA Handbook, 7th ed). Maximum word length for articles is 6500 words, which includes notes and works cited.

Submissions should be uploaded to Canadian Literature’s online submission system at canlitsubmit.ca by the deadline of September 1st, 2013.

Questions in advance of the deadline may be addressed to:

Amanda Jernigan (ahjernigan@gmail.com), Travis Mason (tvmason@dal.ca), and Janine Rogers (jrogers@mta.ca).

Submission Deadline: September 13, 2013

Call for Papers: Disability and the Gothic

The relationship between disability and the Gothic, as Martha Stoddard Holmes rightly observes, has been undertheorized by scholars of the genre. This is surprising, given the intensity with which the Gothic has historically explored and exploited the prejudices associated with human difference as manifested in physiological and mental deviations from a perceived norm. The proposed volume, which will be presented within the established International Gothic Series, published by Manchester University Press, will explore the uses and abuses of disability in Gothic fiction from the eighteenth century to the present, and will advance a genuinely international and multicultural analysis of this neglected aspect of Gothic stylistics. We particularly welcome papers that discuss Gothic textuality beyond the established European and American canon. Issues which might be explored by contributors could include (but are not limited to):

Abject bodies
Amputation   
Birth defects    
Body Integrity Disorder  
Body modification   
Branding and scarification 
Conjoined siblings  
Corrective surgery  
Degeneration   
Hermaphroditism     
Hospital culture    
Human vivisection
Leprosy
Mental illness
Phantom limbs
Pigmentation variations
Post-apocalyptic bodies
Prostheses
Queer bodies
Ritual disfigurement
Supernumerary limbs
Zoomorphism

Proposals of approximately 500 words should be sent to the editors by 30 September 2013:

William Hughes, Department of English, Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Bath BA2 9BN UK e-mail w.hughes@bathspa.ac.uk

Andrew Smith, School of English, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RA UK e-mail andrew.smith1@sheffield.ac.uk

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies: Neuroscience and Modern Fiction

Guest Editor: Stephen J. Burn

Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2014

The Editors of MFS seek essays that consider how modern fiction has evolved in dialogue with the neuroscientific revolution. In the aftermath of the so-called “Decade of the Brain” (the 1990s), a new wave of accessible surveys of brain research propounded a neuro-rhetoric that increasingly presents itself as the authoritative mode for addressing the total constellation of experience that once constituted the novel’s natural territory. But while scholars have drawn on the new sciences of mind to retool narratological studies and to facilitate Cognitive Historicist readings of classic literary texts, literary critics have rarely explored the ways that modern fiction has absorbed or contested the influence of neuroscience thought. What implications does the fertile intersection of neuroscience and narrative carry for fiction’s traditional building blocks (character motivation, plot structures, narrative architecture)? How does the novel’s language evolve in response to neuro-rhetoric? In terms of the broader conceptual issues, how is the neuroscientific conception of the self challenged or explored in fiction? What are the epistemological consequences of neural determinism for the novel’s fascination with contingency? How do our notions of genre evolve in a neurocentric age?

Such examples are indicative not exhaustive, and we invite essays that explore how modern fiction has engaged with the new sciences of mind. Essays on individual writers and works are welcome, as well as essays on broader trends and issues raised by literature’s cross-fertilization with neuroscience.

Essays should be 7,000 - 8,500 words, including all quotations and bibliographic references, and should follow the MLA Style Manual (7th edition) for internal citation and Works Cited. Please submit your essay via the online submission form at the following web address: https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/mfs/special_issues/

Queries should be directed Stephen J. Burn (sburn@nmu.edu).

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Gerontologist: Successful Aging

In an effort to further a scholarly, multidisciplinary dialogue about successful aging, we invite authors to contribute novel conceptual manuscripts, empirical research papers, and innovative review articles focused on successful aging. We particularly welcome papers that are conceptually based, methodologically sophisticated, and oriented toward policy and practice. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches are welcome, from disciplines that include psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, medicine, social work, law, and the humanities. In keeping with the applied research mission of The Gerontologist articles should identify implications for policy or practice.

Before submission authors should carefully read The Gerontologist’s Author Guidelines located at www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/geront/for_authors/general.html. Manuscript formats include Research Articles, Brief Reports, Forums, Practice Concepts and Policy Analysis. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically at www.mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tg according to the following timetable:

Abstract submission deadline: June 3, 2013

Manuscript submission deadline: January 6, 2014

Print Publication Date: February 2015

Visit www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/geront/geront_cfp_aging_12.pdf for more information.

Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of Anthropology & Aging Quarterly: The Aging Body

Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2013

This issue will focus on the aging body not only in terms of biophysical processes of maturation, but also in terms of the aging body’s cultural elaboration, its articulations with other “bodies,” such as Lock and Scheper-Hughes’ formulation of the social and political “body,” and the representation and manipulation of the “old body” through images, technologies, rituals, policies, movements and health practices. We are interested not only in articles that challenge notions of the older body as merely frail or decrepit, but also articles that push conceptual and methodological boundaries of “the body” in its social and cultural contexts. As with many accepted theories in anthropology, theories of the body and embodiment are often framed with an implicit body in mind, and while this implicit body has been usefully critiqued from the perspective of gender, queer, and disability studies, anthropologists studying old age and aging are still developing their own distinct voice in this conversation. This issue of AAQ will draw out the diversity of approaches to the aging body, the challenges they bring to anthropological theories of the body, and the unique contributions of the anthropology of aging to this field.

Topics might include:

-- The ways the aging body is (mis)recognized through demographic and statistical discourse
-- The use of the aging body as a form of resistance to the hegemony of youth
-- Aging bodies as erotic bodies
-- Aging bodies as a challenge to notions of biopolitics
-- Depictions of the aging body vs. other bodies in popular media and/or artistic works
-- Cosmetics and pharmaceutical re-shaping of the aging body
-- Caring for the body as caring for the self
-- Bodily adornment and beautification
-- Pain and the body in old age
-- Discourses and institutions that deindividuate or depersonalize the body
-- Body, memory, and aging in place
-- Gender and the aging body

Please contact Jason Danely if you are interested in submitting an article for this issue: jdanely@ric.edu

Call for Papers for a Special Symosium of Reason Papers: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

Fall 2014 Symposium: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

The Editors of Reason Papers are soliciting submissions of manuscripts for a special symposium on emergencies (due by March 1, 2014). Send submissions to reasonpapers@gmail.com. Inquiries welcome.

Submissions may grapple with any of a wide variety of issues related to emergencies (not an exhaustive list): How is “emergency” to be defined? How do we know when we enter/exit an emergency? How should moral and legal norms be formulated so as to take stock of emergencies–if they should? Are moral norms defeasible in the face of emergencies, or specially contextualized so as to preserve their indefeasibility? Who has special authority for decision-making in an emergency? How best to guard against abuses of power or corruptions of norms in emergency situations?

We’re looking for submissions across the broadest spectrum of relevant disciplines–philosophy, political science, legal studies, history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, criminology/police studies, strategic/military studies, etc.

Reason Papers is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal appearing annually each fall. It features book reviews and review essays along with full-length articles, symposia, and discussion notes of previously published articles. All manuscripts submitted for consideration as Articles are subject to a blind peer-review process (see Submissions page for instructions), and all contributions are subject to internal editorial review. Not limited to philosophy, we publish work by economists, legal scholars, political scientists, historians, and others, provided the content is normative in the philosophical sense. In addition to articles on moral, social/political, and legal philosophy, we also run essays on epistemology, aesthetics, art history, and classics.