7th Global Conference On Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease

Mansfield College, Oxford, is hosting the 7th Global Conference On Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease.  The Conference specifically has an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach that

aims to explore the processes by which we attempt to create meaning in health, illness and disease. The project will examine the models and metaphors we use to understand our experiences of health and illness (looking particularly at perceptions of the body), and to evaluate the diversity of ways in which we creatively struggle to make sense of such experiences and express ourselves across a range of media.

This looks to be an excellent forum for those interested in the medical humanities, who, I would argue, would have to work very hard to avoid as a central feature of their work attempting to "make sense of health, illness, and disease."

300 word abstracts are due by February 1, 2008.  Further details are available on the website.