{"id":686,"date":"2014-01-28T16:24:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=686"},"modified":"2014-01-28T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T15:25:59","slug":"call-for-papers-fashionable-diseases-medicine-literature-and-culture-ca-1660-1832","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2014\/01\/28\/call-for-papers-fashionable-diseases-medicine-literature-and-culture-ca-1660-1832\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An International Interdisciplinary Conference<\/b><\/p>\n

Newcastle and Northumbria Universities<\/b><\/p>\n

3rd<\/sup>\u00a0\u2013 5th<\/sup>\u00a0July 2014<\/b><\/p>\n

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Keynote speakers include:
\nProfessor Helen Deutsch, \u2018Diseases of Writing\u2019<\/p>\n

University of California, Los Angeles<\/p>\n

Author of\u00a0Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture<\/i><\/p>\n

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Dr David Shuttleton, \u2018The Fashioning of Fashionable Diseases in the Eighteenth Century\u2019<\/p>\n

University of Glasgow<\/p>\n

Author of\u00a0Smallpox and the Literary Imagination<\/i><\/p>\n

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Between 1660 and 1832 books such as\u00a0Cheyne\u2019s\u00a0English Malady\u00a0<\/i>and Adair\u2019s\u00a0Essays on Fashionable Diseases\u00a0<\/i>created a substantial debate on the relationship between fashion and sickness, linking melancholy, the vapours, nervousness, gout, consumption and many other conditions with the elite and superior sensibility. This conference aims to include voices from both within the social and medical elite and beyond, and to look at diseases that have not previously been examined in this context and at what can be learned from \u2018unfashionable\u2019 illnesses. It also aims to consider not only diseases associated with social prestige, but also with the medical critique of fashionable luxurious lifestyles, and the debate on \u2018imaginary\u2019 diseases. The role of culture in creating, framing and spreading conceptions of fashionable disease will also be considered.<\/p>\n

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Proposals for papers and\u00a0three-person\u00a0panels are welcome on topics related to fashionable diseases, including:<\/p>\n