The "Health and Disease in Popular Culture" PCA/ACA area encourages proposals from historical and contemporary perspectives.

Topics may include subjects related to health and disease in the mass media (e.g., television, film, internet, advertising)
drugs and pharmaceuticals; alcohol or tobacco
public health
disasters or calamities and public health consequences in popular culture
infectious and chronic diseases in popular culture
epidemics
mental health
health institutions (e.g., hospitals, HMOs)
health insurance
women and men as healers, caretakers, and health professionals
literature and health; race, gender, class and health
urban or rural health
colonization, health, and disease, or globalization, health, and disease.

Contributions from interdisciplinary and single disciplines are welcome.

Individual or full panel proposals are considered.