BMJ “Medical Humanities” Seeks Editor
Applications are invited for the post of Editor – Medical Humanities Medical Humanities is a leading international journal that reflects the whole field of medical humanities. The journal jointly owned by the Institute of Medical Ethics and the BMJ Group,…
CFS: Health Education
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for a book to be published in Fall 2014: KEEPING REFLECTION FRESH: Top Educators Share Their Innovations in Health Professional Education, To be published by Kent State Press in their Literature and Medicine series, Editors: Allan Peterkin, MD…
New MLA Commons Humanities & Medicine Group
Created today in the MLA Commons Groups section is the Humanities & Medicine Group, the companion forum to this blog. Its name is intended to convey its interdisciplinary nature (and is less ungainly than Literature, Medicine, & Medical Humanities). We also acknowledge…
NY Times: Year of the Body
Stephen Holden’s 2012 film retrospective in the New York Times declares 2012 “The Year of the Body Vulnerable”: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/movies/lincoln-and-amour-top-stephen-holdens-best-of-list.html
Catherine Belling: What is hypochondria?
Catherine Belling: What is hypochondria?
CFP: 4th International Conference of Comics and Medicine
Ethics Under Cover: Comics, Medicine and Society, 5th-7th July 2013, Brighton and Sussex Medical School Brighton and Sussex Medical School in collaboration with Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust and Graphic Medicine invites papers for the fourth international conference on…
Michael Berubé: Humans, superheroes, mutants, and people with disabilities
Michael Berubé, People with disabilities
Linda Hutcheon: Multidisciplinary work on culture and medicine
Linda Hutcheon, Multidisciplinary work on culture and medicine
Paula Treichler: History of the condom
University of Illinois cultural historian Paula Treichler’s ongoing research has led her in fascinating directions. Her research on condoms grew out of her work on AIDS and its meanings, work that established her as a leading thinker on the body….
Sander L. Gilman: “Obesity,” “epidemic,” fear of “mental illness,” “race”
Sander L. Gilman on “obesity,” “epidemic,” “mental illness”
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