CFP: Health & Disease (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)
CFP: HEALTH AND DISEASE IN POPULAR CULTURE
POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS CONFERENCE
BOSTON MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
April 4-7, 2007
The "Health and Disease in Popular Culture" PCA/ACA
area encourages proposals from historical and contemporary
perspectives.
Topics may include subjects related to literary representations
of health issues/diseases; depictions of health and disease
in the mass media (e.g., television, film, internet, advertising);
drugs and pharmaceuticals; alcohol or tobacco; 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.
DEADLINE: November 1, 2006. Please send abstracts to:
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman
Email: Jennifer.Tebbe_at_mcphs.edu
Snail Mail Address:
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, MA 02115
Fax: 617-732-2801
Phone: 617-732-2904
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