Reminder CFP: SSHM 2016 - Medicine in its Place. Deadline 1 Feb
One week left to submit your abstracts for SSHM 2016:
Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference 2016
Medicine in its Place: Situating Medicine in Historical Contexts
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.
Call closes: 1 February 2016
Conference Organizers:
Dr Julie Anderson and
Professor Ulf Schmidt.
Download:
Call for Papers (pdf)
Dr Carsten Timmermann
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