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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