Calls for Papers

 

Call for Papers: 2012 Conference on Medicine and Religion Responding to the Call of the Sick: Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today Inaugural National Conference May 23-25, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

The 2012 Conference on Medicine and Religion, sponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, will consider the relation of religion to the practice of medicine, with a focus on clinicians’ responses to the sick and the meaning and spiritual dimensions of the practice of medicine. This inaugural conference is supported by a grant from the Templeton Foundation. Plenary sessions will be organized around the following themes:1) History of medicine and religion: How did we end up here? 2) Medicine as vocation: In what sense is caring for the sick a spiritual practice? 3) Intrinsically connected? The relationships between religion, ethics, science and the practice of medicine

Lectures and discussions around these themes will be conducted in a spirit that builds bridges between theory and practice, science and theology, the academy and lay communities, the various health professions, and the Abrahamic religious traditions.

We invite abstracts for 90-minute panel sessions and 30-minute paper presentations around the three conference themes:-- A panel session would ideally incorporate a variety of perspectives on a cohesive theme. The perspectives would compare and contrast and build on one another. A moderator should also be designated; -- A paper session would be a structured discussion or lecture based on a paper or a work-in-progress. The work presented may be empirical or theoretical, descriptive or normative. One or more authors may present but the first author must present. The centralcontent of the presentation should not be material that has been previously published.

Submission Instructions Each submission should include the following: (1) Information about each presenter: name, credentials, home institution, mailing address, email address, and telephone number. (2) Information about the presentation: -- Title and abstract (no more than 500 words) -- A description of how the presentation will be conducted

All proposals should be emailed by 4pm Wednesday, February 15, 2012, to Daniel Kim at dkim327@uchicago.edu. Successful applicants will be notified by February 28, 2012. For more information: https://pmr.uchicago.edu/events/2012-conference

 

24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Manchester, UK, Monday 22-Sunday 28 July 2013

The 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine will be held at the University of Manchester, UK, from Monday 22-Sunday 28 July 2013. The Congress website is at: http://www.ichstm2013.com/ The theme of the Congress is ‘Knowledge at Work.’ We construe the theme broadly to include studies of the creation, dissemination and deployment of knowledge and practice in science, technology and medicine across all periods, and to encompass a variety of methodological and historiographical approaches.

The call for Symposia is now open. Details are at: http://www.ichstm2013.com/call/ The deadline for symposia submissions is Monday 30 April 2012.

The call for individual papers will be issued in May 2012, and will be widely circulated. Information about iCHSTM2013 will be regularly updated on the website as plans develop: please bookmark the site and check regularly for the latest news! Enquiries about any aspect of iCHSTM2013 may be sent to: enquiries@ichstm2013.com

 

University College Cork, July 9-11, 2012.
'Medical Identities: patients and professionals'

The 2012 conference of the Association for Medical Humanities will take place at University College Cork, Ireland, with the kind support of the Wellcome Trust. Organised in conjunction with the Consortium for Medical Humanities, an inter-University initiative to develop research in Medical Humanities in Ireland, the theme is 'Medical Identities: patients and professionals', and we hope that it is one that will allow for a broad interpretation of the development of the profession, and of the people who use and serve it. Themes may include:

  • Local, regional and national medical identities related to place and space.
  • Medical migrants (movement in search of treatment and training)
  • The impact of culture, politics and socialisation on medical practice
  • The development of identities - professional hierarchies within and between specialisms
  • Alternative therapies
  • Rise of advocacy groups - the emergence of a collective patient identity
  • Professional organisation - the development of the BMA/IMA
  • Changes in identity as a result of medical intervention - amputees, etc.
  • Medicine in war
  • Patient as consumer: private medical care
  • Charitable medicine - Medecins Sans Frontieres versus medical missionaries

Conference Organising Committee: Dr Oonagh Walsh, University College Cork, Dr Ciara Breathnach, University of Limerick, and Dr Olwen Purdue, Queen's University Belfast. Please send a 200 word proposal to the organisers at medhumsireland@gmail.com by January 31, 2012. Suggestions for panels are also welcomed.

 

Call for Papers: Emotions, Health and Wellbeing - Society for the Social History of Medicine Summer Conference

The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major biannual, international, interdisciplinary conference. In 2012, it will be held in conjunction with the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions on the topic of

EMOTIONS, HEALTH & WELLBEING
Queen Mary, University of London, 10-12 September 2012

The conference this year investigates the intimate relationship between the emotions and medicine. Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers, addressing any chronological period and from across the disciplines, including the medical humanities.

To submit a proposal for a 20-minute paper, or for a panel (3 papers, plus a panel rationale) please visit our web site.

The deadline for proposals is 16 January 2012. A number of bursaries will be available for postgraduate speakers. Subsidized on-site childcare will be made available subject to demand. Discounted registration fees will be available to members of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.

 

Call for Papers: The History of Pain Without Lesion in the Mid-to-Late 19th Century West

The Birkbeck Pain Project invites the submission of abstracts in connection with a public Workshop to be held on 19 May 2012 at The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London entitled "The History of Pain Without Lesion in the Mid-to-Late 19th c. West." The Workshop is being organized by Visiting Fellow Daniel S. Goldberg, J.D., Ph.D (East Carolina University, U.S.A.).

The Workshop is hosted by The Birkbeck Pain Project and will take place at The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. There is no fee to attend or register for the Workshop. To submit, please send an abstract (maximum 450 words) and a C.V. via email to the Birkbeck Pain Project (painproject@bbk.ac.uk) by 30 November 2011. Please note that Abstracts which are sent in after this deadline cannot be considered.

Questions and concerns regarding the Call may be directed to the Birkbeck Pain Project (painproject@bbk.ac.uk) and/or to Daniel S. Goldberg (goldbergd@ecu.edu).

More information regarding The Birkbeck Pain Project is available on the Project website (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/our-research/birkbeckpainproject).

 

Call for Papers
The Second Agnes Dillon Randolph International Nursing History Conference

Barbara Brodie, PhD, RN, FAAN
Keynote Speaker & Randolph Award Recipient

March 15-16, 2013

The University of Virginia School of Nursing
Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
Charlottesville, Virginia

In recognition of the diversity and quality of the nursing scholarship appearing across the world, the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry is hosting the 2nd Agnes Dillon Randolph International Nursing Research Conference.

A variety of nursing history presentations of researchers from around the world will be featured in the conference. Presentations will be held in the University of Virginia School of Nursing.

Call For Abstracts

Abstracts due Sept. 15, 2012.  Abstracts to be submitted electronically.  Further information, including directions for electronic submission, will be available on our website by August 1, 2012.

Hotel Accommodations

Courtyard by Marriott University/Medical Center
1201 West Main Street, Charlottesville, VA 22903

More Information Forthcoming

The Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
P.O. Box 800782, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0782
Email: nurs-hxc@virginia.edu
Website: http://www.nursing.virginia.edu/cnhi

 

Call for Papers
"Science, Medicine, and the Making of Race,"

The 2012 Porter Fortune Symposium at the University of Mississippi sponsored by the Department of History explores the intersection of scientific ideas about race and gender with medical practice and experimentation, from the 18th to the 20th century. As racialized science was developing, non-white bodies were often favorite subjects of medical research. This symposium seeks papers from the fields of history of science, history of medicine, and general history exploring the topic of how race and gender get written into (or out of) science, whether in the context of colonialism, slavery, healthcare policies, or museum collections.

We are very happy to announce our keynote speaker for the event will be Londa Schiebinger, the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University . Dr. Schiebinger is the author of Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science (winner of the 1995 Ludwik Fleck Book Prize), Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (winner of the 2005 AHA prize in Atlantic History, and the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society, 2005), as well as numerous other works on race, gender, and science.


The University of Mississippi and its Department of History have held the Porter Fortune Symposium every year since 1975, on various topics. It is a three-day event, with both a keynote address and a number of thematic sessions. Typically, selections of the papers appear in an edited volume. Please submit a 250-word proposal and a c.v. to conference organizers at: Theresa Levitt (tlevitt@olemiss.edu) or Deirdre Cooper Owens (dbowen@olemiss.edu). Please include in the body of the email: your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Panel submissions are also encouraged. These should include a 250-word rationale for the panel, as well as the 250-word abstract for each paper. Please submit each panel in one email message (including the names, affiliations, and contact information of each member).

Deadline for Submissions is: 12/16/2011.

 

 

Calls for Papers
The Sigerist Society for the History of Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine has started a student-run journal dedicated to the history of medicine, entitled Historia medicinae. The journal is open to all students of medical and dental students, residents/interns, health professions students (RN, PA, MPH, etc.) and also history students across the globe. and is presently seeking submissions and reviewers to take part in the first issue of Historia medicinae.
Our mission is to publish articles which cover a unique topic in the history of medicine from an innovative and informed perspective. The journal will cover all periods of medical history from classical and ancient medicine to historical developments in modern medicine. It will consist of short letters written on important individuals, inventions, and developments in medicine as well as longer analyses related to the history of medicine.
Any interested students should visit the website: http://www.medicinae.org/ or contact editor@medicinae.org with inqueries.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from all those interested in the history of medicine,
Andrew Degnan, Editor-in-chief, Historia medicinae
The Sigerist Society for the History of Medicine
The George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, DC, USA
Contact: editor@medicinae.org
Website: http://www.medicinae.org/