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Book Proposals for Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice Series (NYU Press)

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Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice NYU Press SERIES EDITORS: Paul Brodwin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) • Michele Rivkin-Fish (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) • Susan Shaw (University of Arizona) This series will feature U.S.-based ethnographic research into the relations between health, culture, power and knowledge. While focused on the U.S., the…

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Medicine in its Place

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The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major, biennial, international, and interdisciplinary conference that, in 2016, will explore the theme of place.

April 2015, Calls, CFPs

Survey on Teaching Age Studies

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Erin Lamb is conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and is looking to find respondents who both Teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and Address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or tangentially The…

Calls, CFPs, February 2015

Archiving HIV/AIDS in Film and Literature #MLA16

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Efforts to construct the historiography of HIV/AIDS simultaneously mutate our own perceptions. This panel seeks papers that discuss how archiving the HIV epidemic shapes our relationships to the disease. Please send 300-word abstracts by 13 March 2015; Kenneth Pinion (ktpinion@ncsu.edu). Paper topics might include: the collection, preservation, and discovery of…

Calls, CFPs, February 2015

Teaching Memory Studies #MLA16

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Integrating studies of memory and literature: e.g. memory as metaphor, personal or collective practice, neuroscience, narrative hindsight, cinematic flashback. 250 word abstract by March 15 to Martha Rust (martha.rust@nyu.edu) and Suzanne England (suzanne.england@nyu.edu).

Calls, CFPs, February 2015

Circulating Notions of TB #mla16

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Papers examining the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis. How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with or actively shape prevailing public health initiatives? Send 300-word abstracts to Amy Rubens, PhD at arubens@fmarion.edu by March 15.