CFP: SSHM 2016 - Medicine in its Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts
Medicine
in its Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts
Society
for the Social History of Medicine Conference 2016
7 - 10
July 2016
Canterbury,
England, United Kingdom
Hosted
by the Centre for the History of Medicine, Ethics and Medical Humanities,
University of Kent
The Society
for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major, biennial, international, and
interdisciplinary conference. In 2016 it will explore the theme of place. The
committee conceives 'place' in its broadest sense – from political, spatial,
and cultural spaces, to the narrow confines of a patient's hospital bed. The
biennial conference is not exclusive in terms of its theme, and reflects the
diversity of the discipline of the social history of medicine.
Call for
Papers
Proposals
that consider all topics relevant to the history of medicine broadly conceived
are invited, but the 2016 committee encourages proposals for papers, sessions,
and round-tables that examine, challenge, and refine the history of medical and
health related spaces from the laboratory to open-air therapy; the body and
mind in a range of environments, locales including nation, communities and
identities, and issues surrounding ethics and state and private provision of
places for medicine. We welcome a range of disciplinary approaches and time
periods. However, submissions are not restricted to any area of study, and the
committee welcomes proposals on a range of subjects relevant to the history of
medicine and place, from the history of architecture to imagined spaces.
The
committee encourages proposals advancing innovative thinking based on new
research. Paper submissions should include a 250-word abstract including five
key words and a short CV. Panel submissions should include three papers (each
with a 250-word abstract including five key words short CV), a chair, and a
100-word panel abstract. Round-table submissions should include the names of
four participants (each with a short CV), a chair, a 500-word abstract and five
key words.
Submissions
and queries should be sent to: medicineinitsplace2016@kent.ac.uk
Call
closes: 1 February 2016
Conference
Organizers: Dr
Julie Anderson and Professor Ulf
Schmidt.
Download: Call
for Papers (pdf)
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Lecturer | Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) |
Faculty of Life Sciences | Room 2.36 Simon Building | The University of
Manchester | Brunswick Street | Manchester | M13 9PL | Tel +44 (0)161 275
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