Special Anniversary Issue on the Future of Medical Humanities Medical Humanities-BMJ is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a special anniversary issue marking 25 years of publication, on the theme “The Future of Medical Humanities.” Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field welcoming diverse approaches and methodologies that center the “human” in medical practices […]
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Post-Pandemic Futures: December 2025 Special Issue of BMJ Medical Humanities
Guest Editors Loic Bourdeau and Steven Wilson The immediate response to Covid-19 brought together political actors, health professionals, educators, industry leaders, artists, and activists. Yet the pandemic more generally has thrown into sharp relief the importance of connections in making sense of, and reacting to, health crises – connections between countries and peoples; between epidemiology […]
Making Modern Maternity: Special Issue CFP
We invite submissions to a special journal issue that we would like to propose to Medical Humanities on the topic “Making Modern Maternity.” Our aim for the special issue will be to explore the ways in which pregnancy, childbirth, and maternal experiences have been constructed as “modern” (or not) at multiple sites and through various […]
Call for Art: Share Creative Works and Help Us Document “How COVID-19 Has Impacted Our Lives”
Call for Art The project team is collecting creative works people created throughout COVID-19. We are looking for creative products that promote new conversations, activisms, and creative expressions around the social injustices revealed by the pandemic. Everyone who submits a creative piece and expresses interest to be included will: Have their creative products and connected […]
The Doctor as Humanist: Humanism In Surgery Symposium Announcement
Symposium Announcement CFP – The Doctor As Humanist Visit the event website by following this link: Event Website Medical humanities have been rising all over the world due to the challenges posed by scientific and technological advancements that provide us with the means to treat, cure and prolong life, but not necessarily with person-centred care. […]
Conference Report: Colloquium “The Novel Stakes of Social Medicine”
Conference Report by Lucia Mair Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS), 03.-04. December 2021 In early December 2021, the two-day colloquium “The Novel Stakes of Social Medicine” brought together scholars from the medical humanities, health professionals, epidemiologists and economists from across Europe, digitally and in-person, against the backdrop of beautiful Lausanne. Hosted by Medical Anthropology Switzerland […]
CFP: The 2nd International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East
April 9–10, 2022 (online) Deadline February 15, 2022 For more information, visit the Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar website. Submit a paper via the Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar online form. Read the pdf for the CFP Medical Humanities in the Middle East conference. […]
CFP: Contribute to BMJ’s Medical Humanities Journal!
I’m Brandy Schillace, Editor in Chief of BMJ’s Medical Humanities Journal, an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics. We’ve spent the last four years working toward social justice, accessibility, global outreach, and inclusivity. We’ve welcomed research and writing from the LGBTQ and disability community, and included podcasts with activists and others dedicated to […]
Call for Papers: Access and Social Justice
The Covid-19 pandemic has stripped away comfortable illusions, has exposed how fragile our medical, governmental, and social health care systems, and has shed additional light on deeply problematic inequalities in the distribution and allocation of care. We mustn’t return to normal; normal was not good enough. For this reason, we are continuing this year in […]
Call for Abstracts (Issue 11: Summer 2021): Illness, Narrated
Guest Editors: Silvia Boide, Benjamin Brendel, Maaike Hommes and Melanie Kreitler In response to debates considering the relationship between illness and narrative, and the extent to which these concepts can be seen as mutually constitutive, this issue of On_Culture seeks to gather new approaches and critical perspectives to the intricate relationship between narrative and illness. We welcome […]