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While several European naturalists, doctors travelled to tropical colonies to discover indigenous flora and fauna of medicinal value, their movement also enabled the formation of medical nexuses through various trade routes; the latter provided a cogent medium through which the collected knowledge could be re-located within the European metropoles. Placed in the context of medical humanities, these movements have opened an array of possibilities to study, analyse and recover the medical pasts of indigenous and colonial societies. The genre of travel writing preceded by the production and proliferation of travel texts by literate individuals saw the accumulation of data gathered by travellers during the 18th and 19th centuries. These writings shed light on imperial prowess which could vindicate territorial acquisitions. The proposed volume will examine modalities of disease causation, explanation and their trajectory as a result of interaction with colonial communities in colonized sett...

This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on how scientific innovation and technological advancement can support sustainable, resilient, and inclusive societies. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and applied chapters addressing contemporary and future-oriented challenges. We encourage researchers, academics, policymakers, and practitioners to contribute to this important scholarly initiative. URL https://org.wahacademia.com/publications/

In an era marked by global health crises, increased mental-health concerns, aging populations, and ethical dilemmas, there is a growing need to examine medicine from a humanistic and cultural perspective. Beyond clinical wards, meanings of health and suffering are represented through literature, visual and performing arts, and the media. Nowadays, when healthcare systems are intensely scrutinized for their ethical, emotional, and cultural dimensions, the domain of medical humanities offers an interdisciplinary space for rethinking medicine as a profoundly human endeavour. Medical Humanities at the Intersection of Arts and Culture seeks to bring together international and interdisciplinary scholarship that explores how artistic and cultural forms shape understandings of illness, care, and the medical profession. The volume aims to advance medical humanities research by foregrounding global, critical, and culturally situated perspectives on health and medicine. URL:  https://www.igi-...

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World Editors: Dr Mary Katherine Newman and Dr Rana Banna   What counted as evidence in the early modern world?  How did language itself – spoken, written, translated, or performed – shape conceptions of proof?  And how did sensory experience lend authority, or uncertainty, to what language claimed as true?   We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700). Building on the interdisciplinary reading group   Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies  held at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies, the volume considers how early modern thinkers understood the interplay between linguistic practice and sensory experience in the making of knowledge and truth. From translation and foreign tongues to sacred utterance, magical speech, the rhetoric of governance, the eme...