Special Double Issue Call for Papers: Health in the South
Type: Call for Papers
Date: March 15, 2016
Subject Fields: American History / Studies, Anthropology, Area Studies, Health and Health Care, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
The Southern Quarterly solicits
carefully documented essays on the history of disease, medical care,
and medical institutions in the antebellum and post-bellum South; health
care and race; the contributions of prominent 19th- and early to mid-20th-century
health care practitioners in the South; health care and the Civil War;
the rise of public health agencies in the South; health care and the
environment; health care and 19th- and 20th-Century Southern
literature—representation of nurses, doctors, and disease in plays,
poems, and fiction; health care and the visual arts; health care and
popular Southern culture and media.
Essays ranging from 20-30 pages (double-spaced) must be received before March 15, 2016
to be considered for this special issue. Proposals for submission, or
questions about your submission, should be sent to the editor at Philip.Kolin@usm.edu.
SoQ does not consider multiple submissions or work that has been approved elsewhere. Please follow the SoQ guidelines, which are available online at: www.usm.edu/soq/guidelines.htm.
Email submissions of MSWord documents to SouthernQuarterly@gmail.com are preferred over postal delivery.
Contact Info:
Diane DeCesare Ross
Managing Editor
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