The Anatomy Shelf Issue #5 (September 2021)
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CONTENTS:
FEATURED:
Review: Do No Harm - A Painful History of Medicine by Nick Arnold, illustrated by Stephanie von Reiswitz
CURRENT NEWS:
NEW BOOK RELEASES:
Elinor Mordaunt, The Villa and The Vortex. Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924, edited by Melissa Edmundson
I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist, edited by Daniel Pietersen
Pulp Harvest: A Horror Anthology, edited by Nick Harper
UPCOMING BOOKS:
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Substances and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury
Gothic: An Illustrated History, by Roger Luckhurst
FREE ONLINE EVENTS:
Gothic Revolutions: by The Gothic Women Project
Monstrous Teapots & Tart Tangerines: Bristol Gothic ft. A Gothic Cookbook by Joan Passey
Rules and Ethics: Perspectives from Anthropology & History
CALLS FOR PAPERS:
“Gothic Trajectories” An Online Symposium
Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic
Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science
Medical Humanities in German Studies
FEATURED
Do No Harm - A Painful History of Medicine by Nick Arnold, and illustrated by Stephanie von Reiswitz, (Welbeck Publishing Group) ISBN: 9781783126675, 128 pages, Hardback, £14.99
Non-fiction – Gothic – medicine – macabre
Release: 11/11/2021
For the gruesomely curious or medically minded, this romp through the history of medicine packs in the fascinating and often macabre ideas and practices employed during humanity's constant battle against illness and injury. Discover the pills and potions that often did more harm than good, the bizarre treatments and torturous surgeries. As well as finding strange and little-known stories, readers will also develop a deeper understanding of the pioneers and pivotal discoveries that paved the way for the modern medicine we often take for granted today.
Review
The lovely marketing team at Welbeck Publishing #gifted me this stunning Gothic Medicine book titled Do No Harm. It is aimed at a slightly younger audience, but I think anyone of any age would enjoy this macabre journey through the history of medicine.
Do No Harm is written by Nick Arnold and beautifully illustrated by Steph Avon Reiswitz. Together, they explore medicine throughout history with a gothic twist. The book follows a mainly chronological timeline of the history of medicine which focuses on specific events, key figures, and significant advancements (or lack of) in medicine. Some topics have a dedicated section to themselves, such as germs, surgery, and certain organs, each of which have a medical history attached to them with gruesome and informative facts. Each page is filled with whimsically Gothic illustrations which are not only a visual delight, but create an intriguing image intended for you to remember. These quirky and factual diagrams not only make learning fun for a younger audience, but provide a detailed starting point should older readers be interested in the overall darker history of medicine. From mummification and early anatomy, diseases and infections, to modern day technology and medicine, this text provides a charming insight into the historical side of medicine and anatomy. I enjoyed the section on early anatomy and medicine, aptly titled ‘In the Beginning,’ as this is where my expertise lie, especially when looking at mummies and mummification. I also really enjoyed the chapter on operations and surgeries; the accompanying diagrams and sketches were a visual Gothic treat, and I have learned so much more about these areas, in addition to the other topics covered also.
If you’re intrigued by the macabre side of medicine, interested in the historical background of treatments, and enjoy stunning Gothic illustrations, I would wholeheartedly recommend this book. Although I wish something like this had been published when I was younger, I find so much enjoyment reading it now. As I say, although the target audience is for pre-teens and young adults, I would recommend this book to everyone fascinated by this subject, as it makes a fantastically informative coffee table book too.
Do No Harm is out 11th November 2021. Pre order from online retailers and all main bookshops & suppliers today.
More information: https://www.waterstones.com/book/do-no-harm-a-painful-history-of-medicine/nick-arnold/stephanie-von-reiswitz/9781783126675
CURRENT NEWS
NEW BOOK RELEASES
Elinor Mordaunt, The Villa and The Vortex. Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924, edited by Melissa Edmundson, (Handheld Press), ISBN: 9781912766420, Paperback, £12.99
Available Now
*Review coming soon*
Haunting – The uncanny – Gothic – Supernatural
Melissa Edmundson, editor of Women’s Weird and Women’s Weird 2, has curated this selection of the best of Elinor Mordaunt’s supernatural short fiction. The stories blend the technologies and social attitudes of modernity with the classic supernatural tropes of the ghost, the haunted house, possession, conjuration from the dead and witchcraft. Each story is an original and compelling contribution to supernatural fiction, making this selection a marvellous new showcase for women’s writing in the genre.
Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and Britain in the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century.
Stories in The Villa and The Vortex include:
The Villa’, in which death is brought into a Croatian mansion, but it’s not so easy to ask it to leave.
‘The Country-side’, in which a very ordinary infidelity demands the ultimate sacrifice.
‘Four wallpapers’, in which stripping off the wall coverings of a Spanish chateau re-enacts a family tragedy.
‘Hodge’ (previously published in Women’s Weird) in which two adolescents bring a prehistoric man into their own time, and their home.
If you purchase this book from the publisher directly, you will also receive a free exclusive bookmark. Link: https://www.handheldpress.co.uk/shop/fantasy-and-science-fiction/elinor-mordaunt-the-villa-and-the-vortex-selected-supernatural-stories-1916-1924/
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I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist – (British Library Tales of the Weird 25), Edited by Daniel Pietersen, (British Library Publishing) ISBN: 9780712354004, Paperback, £8.99
Available Now
*Review coming soon*
Gothic – Fiction – Supernatural – Uncanny
'The first thing my dazed eyes fell upon was the mirror of black glass... She held it so that I might gaze into its depths. And there, with a cry of amazement and fear, I saw the shadow of the Basilisk.' Through odysseys across dreamlike lands, Gothic love affairs haunted by the shadow of death and uncanny episodes from the Peak country, the portrait of a unique writer of the strange tale emerges. With his florid, illustrative style and powerful imagination, R. Murray Gilchrist's impact on the weird fiction genre is unmistakable - and yet his name fell into obscurity following his death. Exploring tales of annihilation and shattered identities, fatalistic romances, bewildering visions of the sublime and mythological evils preying on the innocent, this new anthology is a journey through an entrancing and influential oeuvre essential for any reader of the weird.
More information: https://www.waterstones.com/book/i-am-stone/r-murray-gilchrist/daniel-pietersen/9780712354004
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Pulp Harvest: A Horror Anthology, edited by Nick Harper, (Blood Rites Horror), ISBN-13 : 978-1919613253, 277 pages, Paperback, £7.08
Available Now
Body Horror – Gothic – Supernatural – The Uncanny
The fifth anthology from Blood Rites Horror brings serial killers and slashers ploughing relentlessly through the harvest season. Follow us from the death of summer to the aftermath of Halloween Night as we pay homage to the iconic slasher films and stories of the late twentieth century. Twelve fantastic stories from twelve of the bloodiest names in horror, including:
"The Cat's Meat Man" by Jack Harding
"You'll See Me When the Leaves Fall" by Carla Eliot
"Back to St. Mary's" by Aiden Merchant
"Thresher Creeping, Blood Moon Weeping" by Alana K. Drex
"Life of a Knife" by Jeremy Megargee
"Win Big or Get Dead" by Nikki R. Leigh
"Animals in Ink" by Nicole Lynn
"Someone Forgot to Smile" by Spencer Hamilton
"Hallowed Killer" by Julie Hiner
"The Eyes Have It" by D.A. Butcher
"Desert Road" by E. Reyes
"Sweating in the Winter" by Leeroy Cross James
Strap in for some gory homages and new classics in our best anthology yet. Look out for more anthologies from Blood Rites Horror, and head to bloodriteshorror.com for updates on our new and upcoming releases.
More information: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pulp-Harvest-Anthology-Nick-Harper/dp/1919613250/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1632391036&refinements=p_27%3ANick+Harper&s=books&sr=1-1
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UPCOMING BOOKS
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Substances and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury, (Harper Collins) ISBN: 9780008484552, 304 pages, Hardback, £20
Release Date: 20/01/2022
Factual – True Crime – Historical - Medical
'A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.' - Kathy Reichs
As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring - and popular - weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. But how exactly do these poisons work to break our bodies down, and what can we learn from the damage they inflict?
In a fascinating blend of popular science, medical history, and narrative crime nonfiction, Dr Neil Bradbury explores this most morbidly captivating method of murder from a cellular level. Alongside real-life accounts of murderers and their crimes -some notorious, some forgotten, some still unsolved - are the equally compelling stories of the poisons involved: eleven molecules of death that work their way through the human body and, paradoxically, illuminate the way in which our bodies function.
Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the fascinating tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals and political assassins, showing how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect through the use of poison. From the deadly origins of the gin & tonic cocktail to the arsenic-laced wallpaper in Napoleon's bedroom, A Taste for Poison leads readers on a fascinating tour of the intricate, complex systems that keep us alive - or don't.
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Gothic: An Illustrated History, by Roger Luckhurst, (Thames & Hudson Ltd), ISBN: 9780500252512 288 pages, Hardback, £25.00
Release: 21/10/2021
Gothic - Illustrated - Academic - Factual
Over the centuries the Gothic has been revived and rewritten to reflect the anxieties of each era. It encompasses the weird, the feared and the uncanny; haunted places and people; and monsters that act as mirrors to ourselves and society. In this lavishly illustrated volume Roger Luckhurst explores how the Gothic began in the margins of history and seeped into mainstream global culture today.
The visceral visual history begins with the Gothic as an aesthetic and architectural practice - the revival of medieval arches across northern Europe - and the emergence of Gothic fiction, filled with haunted ruins and fainting heroines, before moving onto the many ways it has morphed, travelling across the globe and redrawing its boundaries over the centuries, changing to the shape of our fears and anxieties. Luckhurst delves into the shadows of Gothic settings all around the world, from the sublime Alps to the Australian outback, the Arctic waste and the Pacific Ocean, from the dark folkloric realm of the forest to the ruined post-industrial landscapes of abandoned hospitals and asylums, then beyond the bounds of the planet to unknowable cosmic horror.
We encounter the creatures that populate the Gothic imagination and the unsettling space between the living and the dead, from Frankenstein to the zombie of Haitian folklore. Drawing on a rich array of visual material, Luckhurst traces this history across all media from architecture to anime, from Victor Hugo and E. T. A. Hoffmann to the films of Dario Argento, Hideo Nakata and Park Chan-wook and new horror classics such as Get Out, The Babadook and Raw, as the Gothic confronts race, gender and sexuality.
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FREE ONLINE EVENTS
Gothic Revolutions: by The Gothic Women Project
Date and time: Mon, 27 September 2021 - 17:00 – 20:00 BST
An online seminar exploring the Gothic's responses to revolutions in the Romantic period
About this event
'The Age of Chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold the generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom'
Thus wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790 – yet whilst Burke feared the French Revolution would be a death knell for culture and the arts, it was in fact anything but. In particular, the Gothic offered an ideal mode in which to explore old and new terrors, as well as the novel possibilities of a revolutionary world. After all, the Marquis de Sade famously referred to the Gothic boom of the 1790s as ‘the necessary fruit of the revolutionary tremors felt by the whole of Europe’.
For our September event, the Gothic Women Project invites you to a seminar exploring how the Gothic responds to the realities and ideologies of revolution in the broader Romantic period. 'Gothic Revolutions' will explore how the work of women writers in particular intersects with revolutionary movements and moments across the globe. With papers exploring responses to the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution, and rebellion in Ireland, we welcome discussion of how we can interpret the revolutions and upheavals of our own era by looking back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Speakers:
Dr Maisha Wester (University of Sheffield), 'Black Jacobins or Bloody Barbarians: the Haitian Revolution's Gothic Impact'
Dr Christina Morin (University of Limerick), 'Horrible tumults in Ireland': Reading Rebellion in Irish Female Gothic
Dr Lauren Nixon (Nottingham Trent University), 'A soldier for me'?: Framing British masculinity and nationality in women's Gothic writing during the Revolutionary Wars
About us:
Our logo, designed by Melanie Bonsey (University of Sheffield), is inspired by Valperga, Mary Shelley’s second full-length novel, published in 1823. Bonsey uses the image of the sprig of myrtle, an important symbol in this book, a work of historical fiction set in early fourteenth-century Italy.
Gothic Women is an ongoing, collaborative project supported by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), building to an in-person conference in 2023. Our Mary Shelley event is the first of several free online gatherings. Find out more on our website here:
https://gothicwomenproject.wordpress.com/
This event is free to attend but prior booking is required. Book tickets/more information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-revolutions-tickets-168805982237?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1
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Monstrous Teapots & Tart Tangerines: Bristol Gothic ft. A Gothic Cookbook by Joan Passey
Date and time: Wed, 29 September 2021 - 18:00 – 19:00 BST
"Monstrous teapots and tart tangerines: How food signifies the sinister in Rebecca"
About this event
Join us for an evening of tarts, tangerines and terrors when authors of A Gothic Cookbook, Ella Buchan and Alessandra Pino, guest star at the Bristol Gothic Reading Group to talk about food and the Gothic in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/agothiccookbook
Support A Gothic Cookbook on Unbound: https://unbound.com/books/a-gothic-cookbook/
Attendees will receive an EXCLUSIVE 10% discount on Unbound AND a hidden pledge level!
A GOTHIC COOKBOOK
Is food the most underrated character in Gothic literature?
A Gothic Cookbook is an original cookbook showcasing food and drink from, and inspired by, classic and contemporary Gothic tales, teasing out the tastiest titbits with recipes, literary criticism and drawings.
Written by Ella Buchan and Alessandra Pino, and with illustrations from Lee Henry, this literary inspired cookbook is composed of thirteen divinely delicious chapters, each focusing on a different story and discussing its edible motifs before bringing them to life - and to your table - with approachable, easy-to-follow recipes and hand-drawn illustrations.
There's Dracula, which lulls protagonist Jonathan Harker into a false sense of security with cold cuts and a spicy, smoky, peppery stew. Frankenstein’s “monster” starts out as a benign vegetarian, while Mrs Poole’s overindulgence in Mother’s Ruin triggers Mr Rochester’s downfall in Jane Eyre – and a bitter tangerine signals a sharp, yet unheeded, warning against marriage and Manderley in Rebecca. Notice, too, how a ghostly presence craves sugar and burnt bread in Toni Morrison’s Beloved...
This event is free to attend but prior booking is required. Book tickets/more information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monstrous-teapots-tart-tangerines-bristol-gothic-ft-a-gothic-cookbook-tickets-169522338879?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
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IAS Book Launch: Rules and Ethics: Perspectives from Anthropology & History by Institute of Advanced Studies
Date and time: Wed, 29 September 2021 - 17:30 – 19:00 BST
We welcome Emily Corran (UCL) and Morgan Clarke (Oxford) to launch their book 'Rules & Ethics: Perspectives from Anthropology & History'.
About this event
VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH
This book investigates the pronounced enthusiasm that many traditions display for codes of ethics characterised by a multitude of rules. Recent anthropological interest in ethics and historical explorations of 'self-fashioning' have led to extensive study of the virtuous self, but existing scholarship tends to pass over the kind of morality that involves legalistic reasoning. Rules and ethics corrects that omission by demonstrating the importance of rules in everyday moral life in a variety of contexts. In a nutshell, it argues that legalistic moral rules are not necessarily an obstruction to a rounded ethical self, but can be an integral part of it. An extended introduction first sets out the theoretical basis for studies of ethical systems that are characterised by detailed rules. This is followed by a series of empirical studies of rule-oriented moral traditions in a comparative perspective.
Professor Ben Kaplan (UCL History) and Professor Fernanda Pirie (St Cross, Oxford, Anthropology) will each give a short response to the book followed by the editors of the volume (Professor Morgan Clarke and Dr Emily Corran) making some closing remarks.
All welcome. This is a virtual event. Please note that there may be recording at some events. Please follow this FAQ link for more information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/institute-advanced-studies-accessibility-tickets-and-copyrights
All our events are free but you can support the IAS here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/donate
This event is free to attend but prior booking is required. Book tickets/more information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ias-book-launch-rules-and-ethics-perspectives-from-anthropology-history-tickets-167444684559?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
“Gothic Trajectories” An Online Symposium, hosted by GANZA (Gothic Association for New Zealand and Australia) on 27 January 2022.
Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2021.
(See JPEG below for information)
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Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic
Issue IV: Unthemed Issue
Deadline for Paper Abstracts: Friday 8th October 2021
Deadline for Reviews: 15th February 2022
Deadline for Interviews: 15th February 2022
Deadline for Creative Pieces: 15th February 2022
Editors-in-Chief: Dr Elizabeth Parker and Dr Michelle Poland
**Call for Papers**
We live in ecoGothic times. From climate crisis to coronavirus, we are increasingly finding ourselves living in, and contending with, unsettling and unpredictable Gothic environments of our own making. Many of the portents and warnings that have been entrenched from the outset in conversations around ‘ecohorror’ and ‘ecoGothic’ have taken frightening material form. Consequently, interrogating and understanding the inextricable relationships between the human and nonhuman—including, in particular, the more unsettling, uncanny, monstrous, spectral, and sublime aspects of these relationships—is becoming more urgent by the day. Our fears and experiences around human-caused, but not human-controlled mass extinction events, geological shifts, and global pandemics are on the rise – and consequently there is thriving interest in explorations of both real and imagined Gothic Natures. Whether we are exploring the dark and disturbing ‘Natures’ that appear in our Gothic and horror stories, or contemplating the ‘Gothicness’ that increasingly characterises the Nature we encounter in our lived realities, the Gothic Nature journal offers a unique space in which critical and creative writers, thinkers, and artists alike can come together to productively engage with the anxieties arising from our troubled co-existence with the more-than-human world.
For issue IV we aim to move into new and fruitful areas of exploration relating to our fears of the nonhuman world in collaboration with scholars across the environmental arts and humanities and sciences, encouraging a diverse range of voices and perspectives. Through this journal, we continue to be passionate about our commitment to open access publishing and to showcasing and celebrating the scholarship of both leading names in ecohorror and ecoGothic and newer researchers alike. We have kept the scope of issue IV deliberately broad in order to welcome and foreground the emerging, engaging, and sometimes surprising evolutions of scholarly inquiry into Gothic Nature.
For Gothic Nature IV, we invite proposals for:
· Papers of 6-8,000 words that critically reflect, engage with, and explore any aspect and interpretation of ‘Gothic Nature’.
· Reviews (book, TV, film, podcast, etc.). We invite pitches on recent texts relating to ecohorror/ecoGothic, released in the last year or so. (Our Film & TV Editor has released a sample selection of suggested review texts here).
· Interviews. We invite original interviews with individuals with a clear connection to the themes of the journal, e.g. a director or author of a text relating to ecohorror/ecoGothic.
· Creative pieces that reflect, engage with, and explore any aspect and interpretation of ‘Gothic Nature’. Creative pieces may be short stories, poems, extracts of novels-in-progress, artwork, and other alternative modes and formats (e.g. recorded performances, creative readings) and we invite you to get in touch to talk through your ideas at gothicnaturejournal@gmail.com.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
Gothic lands, seas, and skies (forests, wildernesses, jungles, woods, oceans, seas, coasts, deserts, skies, etc.).
Gothic Nature and questions of race, class, disability, gender, and/or sexuality.
Decolonising ecohorror and the ecoGothic.
Gothic ecology, Gothic geology, Anthropocene Gothic.
Haunted ecologies.
Frankenstein food, monstrous meat, vegetarian horror.
Climate fiction, environmental disasters, apocalypse, the deep dystopian future.
Plant horror, animal horror.
Eco-monsters (trolls, wolves, witches, wendigos, etc.)
The terror and wonder of extreme weather events.
Haunted rural communities, decaying urban spaces.
EcoGothic and ecohorror gaming.
EcoGothic Tourism.
Narratives of extinction.
Activism and Gothic Nature.
For paper proposals: please send abstracts of 500 words, as well as a brief biography of 150 words, to Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland at gothicnaturejournal@gmail.com by Friday 8th October 2021 (or feel free to contact us informally should you wish to talk through ideas or have any queries). Full papers will be due 18th March 2022.
For reviews (book, TV, film, game, etc.): if you have not already been in touch independently with our Book Reviews Editor, Jennifer Schell, or our TV and Film Reviews Editor, Sara Crosby, please send your pitch for text/s to review to Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland at gothicnaturejournal@gmail.com by 31st December 2021 and/or send in full review submissions for consideration by 15th February 2022.
For interviews: please send your pitch for interviews with directors or authors to Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland at gothicnaturejournal@gmail.com by 31st December 2021 and/or full interviews for consideration by 15th February 2022.
For creative contributions: please send completed creative pieces, as well as a brief biography of 150 words, to Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland at gothicnaturejournal@gmail.com by Friday 16th September 2022. **Please note the creative contribution deadline is September 2022, not September 2021, as we are asking for full drafts rather than abstracts or pitches here (though you may of course contact us informally if you wish to talk through ideas or have any queries).**
About the Gothic Nature Journal
Gothic Nature is an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed open-access academic journal seeking to explore the latest evolutions of thought in the areas of ecohorror and the ecoGothic. It publishes articles, reviews, interviews, and original creative pieces united in their interrogation of the darker sides of our relationship with the nonhuman and provides a space for all scholars working at the intersections of ecocriticism, Gothic and horror studies, and the wider environmental humanities. Gothic Nature aims to provide deeper understandings of the importance and implications of our monstrous, sublime, spectral, and uncanny constructions of Nature in the cultural imagination and productively explore how Gothic and horror might factor in our conceptions and experiences of contemporary real life ecological crisis.
Website: Gothic Nature Journal – New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic
Twitter: @gothicnaturejo
· Founding Editor: Dr Elizabeth Parker
· Editors-in-Chief: Dr Elizabeth Parker and Dr Michelle Poland
· Book Review Editor: Professor Jennifer Schell
· Film and TV Review Editor: Assoc. Prof. Sara L. Crosby
· Blog Editor: Dr Harriet Stilley
· Website Designer: Michael Belcher
· Editorial Board: Professor Stacy Alaimo, Professor Eric G. Anderson, Dr Scott Brewster, Dr Kevin
· Corstorphine, Dr Rachele Dini, Professor Simon C. Estok, Dr Tom J. Hillard, Professor William Hughes,
· Dr Derek Johnston, Professor Dawn Keetley, Dr Ian Kinane, Dr John Miller, Professor Matthew Wynn
· Sivils, Professor Andrew Smith, Dr Samantha Walton
More information:
https://gothicnaturejournal.com/
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CFP: Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science
Call for Papers
Deadline: November 8, 2021
Location: United States
Subject Fields: History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, American History / Studies, Anthropology, Social History / Studies, Sociology
The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science is seeking abstracts for its 2022 conference. The meeting is scheduled for March 10-12 at Emory University in Atlanta.
We welcome abstracts on a broad range of topics from any period in the history of science, medicine, and technology, and encourage submissions from graduate students, faculty, professionals, and independent scholars.
We especially invite submissions that address global histories, as well as those related to the histories of disability, race, gender, or the environment.
Topics do not need to be Southern in focus and presenters do not need to be affiliated with Southern institutions to submit a proposal.
The conference currently is scheduled to be in-person, but the organizers will evaluate the situation closer to the conference date.
Visit sahms.net for information and to submit.
Contact Email:sahmsconference@gmail.com
More information: https://relcfp.com/post/663071692144394240/cfp-southern-association-for-the-history-of
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CfP: Medical Humanities in German Studies
Deadline: 15 November
We invite abstracts of up to 500 words for a planned edited volume on the medical humanities in German studies. Scholars from the areas of literature, history, and cultural studies are encouraged to participate. We have received interest in this project from the editors of a new series on the medical humanities, and in order to reach the widest audience possible, we ask that abstracts and future contributions be written in English.
‘Medical humanities’ is an evolving term that seems to change with each scholar and each approach. Originally, the field was directed at medical students. The humanities, particularly in the forms of history, literature, the arts, and philosophy, were integrated into medical programs to educate and prepare ethically minded health practitioners. The path was relatively one-directional, however, with humanistic study employed in the service of medical training.
Recent years have seen a shift, as scholars in the humanities have become increasingly interested in issues of health. The COVID-19 pandemic will leave an indelible mark on our culture and only underscores how topical and significant these discussions will be moving forward within our fields. This impact can be seen in the richness of areas like disability studies, body studies, cognitive studies, and the intersection of health and policy, among others. In addition to incorporating aesthetic or ethical dimensions into discussions surrounding medicine, the medical humanities have also played an important role in providing access to these discussions to traditionally underrepresented peoples, groups, and perspectives. Overall, the medical humanities have done important work in bridging the STEM-Humanities gap.
The medical humanities play a particularly important role in German studies. Our understanding of the wars of the twentieth century, of the Holocaust, and of the development of the modern health care system is expanded by literary and historical investigation. So, too, can our hermeneutic methods evolve through the adoption of approaches developed by health professionals. The medical humanities encompass the works of important Germanic historical figures, authors, film makers, and scientists. They are interested in representations of illness and the body in literature, art, film, politics, or exhibition. They likewise engage methodology and challenge both humanistic and medical dogma. The medical humanities are fluid.
The proposed volume will interrogate the medical humanities in German studies. How are the medical humanities employed across the breadth of our disciplines? How has this field developed over time and which approaches are expanding scholarship today? What do these discussions reveal about the culture and history of the German-speaking world? Which medical models translate into hermeneutic experiments, and how does this change the way in which we interpret? How has COVID-19 impacted this field, or the cultures of investigation?
The goal of the collection is to underscore and celebrate the interdisciplinarity of the medical humanities and to embrace the breadth of German studies. Contributions are encouraged from all corners of German studies and the volume plans to integrate the scholarship of historians, literary scholars, film scholars, and the work of others who may identify with our field. Our goal for the volume is to demonstrate the many ways that research approaches in the medical humanities can significantly reframe or shed new light on the history, culture, language, literature, and film of the Germanophone world.
Please email an English abstract of no more than 500 words and a brief one-paragraph biography to the volume editors listed below. Questions can also be directed to individuals in this list. The due date for abstracts is: November 15, 2021
Charles Vannette (Charles.Vannette@unh.edu)
Heather Perry (Heather.Perry@uncc.edu)
Kristen Hetrick (kmhetric@ncsu.edu)
Potential topics and approaches may include, but are not limited to:
Biopolitics
Body studies
Cognitive studies
Concepts of degeneration and death
Disability studies
Health and policy
Health and psychology
Health in literature and film
History of medicine and the politics of public health
Illness and creativity
Issues of sexuality
Maternity, birth, new life
Medical ethics
Medical practice and issues of intersectionality
Mental health
Metaphors of contagion
Representations of health and disease
Trauma studies
More information: https://relcfp.com/post/662244948835516416/cfp-medical-humanities-in-german-studies
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