CFS: Medical Humanities

Medical Humanities is a leading international journal that reflects the whole field of medical humanities. Medical Humanities aims to encourage a high academic standard for this evolving and developing subject and to enhance professional and public discussion. It features original articles relevant to the delivery of healthcare, the formulation of public health policy, the experience [...]

CFP: Narrative, Reflection, Education (Symposium)

Creating Space II: Taking narrative and reflection to the next level in health professional education, research and practice A special symposium organized in conjunction with the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), sponsored by the Canadian Association for Medical Education’s “Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Medicine” (AHSSM) Educational Interest Group (EIG). Date: Saturday April [...]

CFS: J Medical Humanities

Journal of Medical Humanities | Editor: T. Jones Journal of Medical Humanities publishes original papers reflecting its broad perspective on interdisciplinary studies of medicine and medical education. Research findings emerge from three areas of investigation: medical humanities, cultural studies, and pedagogy. Medical humanities coverage includes literature, history, philosophy, and bioethics as well as areas of [...]

CFP: Medical Humanities Conference (Ireland)

CFP – 2012 Asociation for Medical Humanities Conference – ‘Medical Identities: patients and professionals’ – University College Cork, July 9-11 The 2012 conference of the Association for Medical Humanities will take place at University College Cork, Ireland. Organised in conjunction with the Consortium for Medical Humanities, an inter-University initiative to develop research in Medical Humanities [...]

CFP: Medical Humanities Conference (Pennsylvania)

Call for Proposals – Medical Humanities Consortium 10th Annual Meeting — Submission deadline: December 20, 2011 Under Construction: Hospitals, Healthcare, and the Medical Humanities, May 15-16, 2012, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP), 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 Constructing buildings, designing spaces, structuring systems, decorating rooms, adorning walls, (re)forming policy, altering practices—these are the actions [...]

CFS: Integration of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education

The Journal for Learning through the Arts: A Research Journal on Arts Integration in Schools and Communities (JLTA) is publishing a special issue on Innovations in the Integration of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education, to appear spring, 2012. A similar issue was published in 2006, which included contributions from Catherine Belling, Gretchen Case, [...]

Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Symposium

Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Symposium: Through the Lens of Time: Perspectives on Medicine and Health Care May 19 (Evening) and May 20 (8AM – 5PM) The Eighth Annual Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium meeting will be held at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia on Wednesday evening, May 19 through Thursday afternoon, May 20, 2010. This year’s [...]

CFP: Madness and Literature (International Health Humanities Conference)

CALL FOR PAPERS: 1ST INTERNATIONAL HEALTH HUMANITIES CONFERENCE 2010 “Madness and Literature” The Institute of Mental Health is hosting The 1st International Health Humanities Conference at The University of Nottingham, UK from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th AUGUST 2010. Keynote Speakers: Emeritus Professor of English Elaine Showalter (Princeton University); Professor Kay Redfield Jamison (Johns Hopkins [...]

CFP: Penn Medical Humanities Meeting

Call for proposals: Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium Eighth Annual Meeting, May 19-20, 2010 College of Physicians, Philadelphia, PA Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2010 Through the Lens of Time: Perspectives on Medicine and Health Care The Eighth Annual Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium meeting will be held at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 South [...]

CFS: Journal Issue on Healthcare Disparities

The Drew University Journal of Medical Humanities (DMH) is looking for submissions for its second edition on the topic of healthcare disparities. Suggested threads include: • Health/illness/access to care and social disparities (e.g.: urban versus rural communities) • Health/illness/access to care and racial/ethnic disparities • Heath/illness/access to care and socioeconomic disparities • Health/illness/access to care [...]