The Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where I am a graduate student, has put out a Call for Applications for a non-tenure track faculty position in clinical ethics. You may download the call here (PDF): Download clin_bioethicist_ad1.pdf.
The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy will host a conference entitled New Perspectives in Pharmaceutical History on Oct. 17-18, 2008, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Here is the description from the web site:
The evolution of the modern pharmaceutical enterprise over the long twentieth century—from its early intersection with the image and later the structure of scientific research, to its dramatic postwar expansion and late-century saturation of medical and marketing media—has implications that stretch far beyond the traditional history of pharmacy and medicine to impact broader social, cultural, economic, business, legal, regulatory, and political developments. This conference seeks to foster and reflect on the growing body of pharmaceutical scholarship across historical disciplines and encourage novel theoretical and methodological developments by featuring newer scholars alongside more established figures in the field.
Some travel funds will be available for graduate students, and established scholars interested in using the resources of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy can apply for travel funds through the Sonnedecker Visiting Scholar Program of the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy (click here for Special Sonnedecker Grants for Visiting Researchers information). AIHP Conference Planning Committee: Jeremy Greene, Dominique Tobbell, Arthur Daemmrich, Michael Flannery, Elaine Stroud, and Greg Higby.
The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) invites paper proposals for its eleventh annual meeting on March 6-7, 2009 in Birmingham, Alabama. The meeting will be hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
SAHMS welcomes papers on the history of medicine and science, broadly construed to encompass historical, literary, anthropological, philosophical and sociological approaches to health care, including race and gender studies. While some sessions will relate to the American South, SAHMS is open to a wide range of topics. Past meetings have included ancient, medieval, modern European, African and Asian presentations. Scholars from all areas and disciplines are welcome. MD/PhD students may submit works in progress and should indicate their graduate student status.
Participants may propose individual papers or panels of several papers on a particular theme. In general each presenter is limited to 20 minutes, with additional time for questions and discussion. Please do not submit papers that have already been published, presented or scheduled for presentation at another meeting. All participants are responsible for their own travel and registration costs.
Electronic submissions as e-mail attachments in MSWord or other readily supportable format are required (see e-mail below). Submit a one-page abstract of the paper (about 250 words) stating the general thesis, sources used, research findings and general conclusions. Include a one-page C.V. and cover sheet available on the website for each presenter. Proposals should be submitted by September 30, 2008. The program will be announced November 1, 2008 on our website-http://www.SAHMS.net. All attendees will be expected to register for the meeting.
Students note: SAHMS offers a limited number of modest travel grants for student presenters to attend the meeting. Those interested should submit to the program committee chair (1) a letter justifying his or her request at the time of the paper submission, (2) along with a letter of support from a faculty member with whom he or she works (this may be emailed directly to the program chair). In no case does this exempt these or any students from paying the stated registration fee.
Send proposals to the Program Committee Chair: Mary E. Gibson, meg2e@virginia.edu.
(Note: In the past, the SAHMS has seemed quite receptive to proposals from graduate students).
(H/t H-SCI-MED-TECH Listserv)
Call for Contributions to essay collection: Prescribing Gender in Medicine and Narrative.
The collection, under contract with a scholarly press, investigates gendered perceptions and representations of healers and patients in fiction, popular literature, poetry, film, television, and visual art.
To round out the collection, we are seeking additional papers on the following topics:
Please submit completed papers and short CVs to angela.laflen@marist.edu and mblock@princeton.edu by August 15, 2008.
Papers should between 5,000 and 10,000 words (including Works Cited) and follow Chicago format. For more information please contact Angela Laflen and Marcelline Block at angela.laflen@marist.edu and mblock@princeton.edu.
(H/t H-Net-Disability Listserv)
The Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch (where I am a graduate student) has announced a Call for Applications for a tenure-track faculty position.
The Call may be downloaded here (*PDF):
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Victorian Disability
Fall 2009
Submission Date: 15 September 2008
The Victorian Review invites submissions for its forthcoming special issue devoted to Victorian Disability. From the development of new sign
systems for the blind and deaf, to the growth of eugenics, from Dickens’ one-legged man, Silas Wegg, to the disabled communities that populate the fiction of Charlotte Yonge, the Victorians were creating and consolidating ideas of ability, normalcy, difference, health, and illness. This special issue seeks to explore the constructions of ability and disability that circulated in Victorian Britain and abroad.
Recent critical work in Disability Studies has suggested disability as another mode of analysis alongside class, race, gender and sexuality in the understanding of culture. How can a focus on ableness complicate traditional readings of gender, class, race, and sexuality in the period? We particularly invite submissions that engage with the challenge that Disability Studies poses for the future of Victorian Studies. To what extent might Disability Studies pressure conventional disciplinary boundaries? How might we approach Victorian Disability Studies while recognizing that the term "disability" and the meanings we now grant to it as a general category did not exist in the Victorian period?
Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):
Essays must be between 5000 and 8000 words and formatted according to MLA guidelines. Please submit electronic copies of essays to both of the issue’s guest editors by September 15, 2008:
Christopher Keep
Department of English
The University of Western Ontario
Jennifer Esmail
Department of English
Queen’s University
(h/t H-NET-DISABILITY)
Fresh off of its 2008 Annual Meeting (which I was sadly unable to attend), the American Association for the History of Medicine has wasted no time in announcing its Call for Papers for the 2009 Annual Meeting, to be held in Cleveland, OH April 23-26, 2009:
The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 82nd annual meeting, to be held in Cleveland, OH, April 23-26, 2009. The Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome. Besides single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits.
Abstracts must be received by September 15, 2008, to be eligible for consideration. Further details are available on H-Net.
Look, there's nothing I can possibly say about the upcoming documentary Unnatural Causes that either I haven't already said, or that others haven't already said much better. In many ways, the issues regarding public health policy and the social determinants of health I've been covering here on MH Blog are encapsulated neatly in the documentary.
It's a four-part series, beginning tomorrow, March 27, on PBS at 10 pm EST (I think, check local listings). If you care at all about health and illness, it's an absolute must.
I feel particularly fortunate because I will have the opportunity to meet some of the producers at the Intercultural Cancer Council Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer April 3-6. I'll try to post something as a follow-up. Any MH Blog readers who will be attending the conference are encouraged to drop by and say hello.
In any case, watch the documentary!
UPDATE: Well? What say you all? I loved it; thought it was terrific. Interviewed many of the right people (Kawachi, Krieger, Williams, Christakis, Marmot, among others), made key points about chronic stress and the neuroendocrine pathway (which we've noted here), and talked at length about the social gradient of health. There's obviously going to be many who differ on the appropriate policy prescriptions, but I thought it laid the groundwork very well.
Via the Professor comes word of a Symposium being organized by MH guest-blogger extraordinaire Frank Pasquale entitled "Preparing for a Pharmaceutical Response to Pandemic Influenza". From the web site:
Seton Hall Law School’s Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law and the Seton Hall Law Review will be hosting a symposium on October 23-24, 2008, to examine the legal, ethical, and public policy issues related to developing a pharmaceutical response to an influenza pandemic. Panels will explore issues related to the development and approval of vaccines and antiviral drugs, both before and during a pandemic; the allocation of vaccines and antiviral drugs in situations of scarcity; pricing issues; and liability and compensation for drug-related injuries. There will be a special emphasis on issues related to international equity [Well of course there will be if Frank is helping to put it together! -- Ed.]
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Persons interested in participating as a panelist at the symposium should submit a CV and a 200-word abstract of their presentation to Julie Sauer, Symposium Editor, by April 15, 2008. Julie Sauer may be reached at (201) 739-7310 / sauerjul@shu.edu. Prospective panelists should indicate whether they would be interested in submitting a paper based on their presentation for publication in the Seton Hall Law Review. Contributions are welcome from scholars and practitioners in all disciplines.
We here at MH Blog particularly appreciate that last sentence! Further details are available on the Symposium web site.
The Medical Humanities Program at IUPUI has announced a Call for Proposals entitled "Cancer Stories: The Impact of Narrative on a Modern Malady." The call is related to a Medical Humanities Symposium. Here are some excerpts from the web site:
"Cancer Stories" is a two-day symposium organized around the premise that narratives about cancer have influenced the way in which cancer is experienced in America. Prose, poetry, performance, and the visual arts constitute the range of narratives the symposium will explore. We include both the production and reception of cancer stories by physicians, nurses, patients, artists, and advocates to explore how the cultural meaning of cancer has shaped the human and institutional response to it.
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"Cancer Stories" is a free symposium that will take place 6-8 November 2008, as one of a series of events surrounding the dedication of the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center (IUSCC) on the campus of the Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis. Following the symposium, plenary and workshop presenters will gather for a working session devoted to framing an edited volume of manuscripts relating to their presentations. Accommodation for participants is available in University Place Hotel, adjacent to symposium venues.
Further details are available on the symposium web site.
(h/t DV)
