Disability History Association: Outstanding Book/Article Award
Outstanding Book/Article Award The Disability History Association promotes the relevance of disability to broader historical enquiry and facilitates research, conference travel, and publication for scholars engaged in any field of disability history research. The Disability History Association is excited to…
Int’l Advanced Seminar, Philosophy of Medicine
Unity and autonomy in the philosophy of medical science: International Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of Medicine (Call for Contributions by 15 March 2013) Details: http://medicalhumanities.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/the-philosophy-of-medical-science/
UVA Global Health Fellowship
The University of Virginia Center for Global Health invites applications for a new postdoctoral fellowship, due Mar 1, 2013. The WHIL Innovations Fellowship in Global Health is a joint collaboration with the University of Venda (South Africa) and aims to…
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,…
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…
Members’ Introductions
If you are interested in joining this blog’s conversations and would like to introduce yourself to other MLA scholars who are doing work in literature and medicine or humanities and health (or “medical humanities”), please use the comment feature of this post…
Literature, Medicine & Medical Humanities Welcome
Although the MLA does not currently have a division or discussion group explicitly devoted to literature and medicine or medical humanities, many of us are working on representations of the body, sexuality, health, illness, disease and the health professions. Admittedly, the…
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