CfP: At the Crossroads of Care and Cure: Healing in the Pre-Modern World
This volume will be published with Medica: Studies in Pre-Modern Health and Healing (Routledge).
The history of healing has a rich body of scholarship, albeit one that is scattered across time, topic, and place. This volume seeks to bring together this rather disparate field by soliciting engaging works that explore the nature of healing, broadly defined, through a variety of lenses from history to ethnopharmacology to archaeology and beyond from the Ancient World to 1800. Only through interdisciplinary work does the study of pre-modern health and healing begin to take shape. As healing knows few boundaries, this volume will explore care and cure across the globe in an effort to highlight common threads and themes. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Recipes, their development, use and abuse
- Pharmacology
- Reception, transfer, translation, reuse, and misuse of healing knowledge and techniques
- Professionals and practitioners
- Spaces and places of healing
- Religion and ritual
- Material culture including amulets, charms, instruments of healing, etc.
- Indigenous and colonial knowledge and practice
- Gendered and transgender health
- Fertility, infertility, and sexuality
- Informal networks of care
- Intersections between healing and race
- Disability and healing
- Healing on the battlefield
- Death and deathcare
- Appropriation of pre-modern healing in the modern era
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio to Minji Lee or Anna Peterson.