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Health, Disease, and Physical Culture Call For Papers, Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference Boston
October 23, 2010
| Location: | Massachusetts, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-10-23 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-02-03 |
| Announcement ID: |
173810 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
HEALTH, DISEASE AND PHYSICAL CULTURE AREA
NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Boston
October 23, 2010
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is soliciting papers for topics relating to the specialized area of Health, Disease and Physical Culture for its annual meeting, which will be held Saturday October 23, 2010 on the campus of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts.
Topics in Health, Disease and Physical Culture may include:
Representations of the body in discourses of health and illness
Narratives of illness from patient and health practitioner perspectives in novels, short stories, memoirs, graphic comics, etc. discussed in larger sociocultural (ethnicity, race, gender, class), and political (health care system) contexts
Disability discourses in history, literature, and public policy
“Outbreak” narratives of infectious diseases (e.g., endemic, epidemic, pandemic)
in popular media and literature
historical and contemporary perspectives on the promotion of health through diet, exercise, personal or domestic hygiene, cosmetic procedures, public health campaigns, etc.
Health care ethics discourses in popular culture genres, e.g., film, television, novels
Representations of public policy discourses concerning health in any genre
Portrayals of health institutions and health professionals in literature or mass
media
Technological innovations and their relation to popular audiences (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging, robotics, communication technologies and disease surveillance systems)
We invite both individual papers and proposals for complete three-person panels.
Please send a 1-2 page paper proposal and a one-page vita to both the to Jennifer
Tebbe-Grossman, Area Chair for Health, Disease and Physical Culture and to the NEPCA program chair (see contact information below).
Paper proposals are due June 1, 2010.
Area Chair:
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Professor of Political Science and American Studies
School of Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Boston179 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Jennifer.Tebbe@mcphs.edu
Program Chair:
David Tanner
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Boston
179 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
David.Tanner@mcphs.edu
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Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Professor of Political Science and American Studies
School of Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Boston
179 Longwood Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Jennifer.Tebbe@mcphs.edu
Email: jennifer.tebbe@mcphs.edu
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