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Katja Herges deposited Syllabus Medicine and the Humanities in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoIntroductory course in the medical humanities with focus on English literature. Taught as a general education course. Topics include anatomy, madness, plagues and contagions and death and caregiving.
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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 8 years, 6 months 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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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAs the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoLiterature, Medicine & Medical Humanities (https://medicalhumanities.mla.hcommons-staging.org/) is the new featured site on the MLA Commons homepage (https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/).
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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 8 years, 9 months 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 8 years, 9 months 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 8 years, 10 months 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 8 years, 11 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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Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. EXTENDED in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThe eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities
Deadline: 8th/Febr/2017
ConvenorsVeronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)Short Abstract
In this panel we hope to further explore the role of historical and ethno-historical data in MCL…[Read more] - Load More