Call for Abstracts: Journal Special Issue: “Queer Medical Humanities”

Co-editors: Benjamin Dalton (Lancaster University) Chase Ledin (University of Edinburgh) Maurice Nagington (University of Manchester) Background and Context The Queer Medical Humanities is a diverse, developing field at the intersections of the Medical Humanities and Queer Studies. Many strands of queer theory engage with medical and healthcare contexts in new and exciting ways. This includes […]

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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 […]

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Conference Announcement: Medicine and The Arts Symposium, Barcelona, 19th-21st October 2023

Announcement by Jonathan McFarland, President of The Doctor as a Humanist Medicine and healthcare seem to be at a crossroads; some may say, reinterpreting Shakespeare that there is something rotten in the state medical education, and thus in healthcare, in general. And certainly, since the pandemic, whose vestiges are still being seen around the world, […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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