Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Gothic Studies: the Gothic and Medical Humanities
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Gothic Studies: the Gothic and Medical Humanities http://www.bsls.ac.uk/2013/05/gothic-and-medical-humanities-call-for-papers/ Proposals are invited for a special issue of Gothic Studies exploring intersections between the Gothic and medical humanities. Gothic studies has long grappled with suffering bodies, and the fragility of human flesh in the grip of medical and legal discourse continues to be manifest in chilling literature and film. The direction of influence goes both ways: Gothic literary elements have arguably influenced medical writing, such as the nineteenth-century clinical case study. In this second decade of the twenty-first century, it seems apt to freshly examine intersections between the two fields. The closing years of the twentieth century saw the emergence of medical humanities, an interdisciplinary blend of humanities and social science approaches under the dual goals of using arts to enhance medical e