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> >From: Tara McGann <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: UPDATE: Literature and Medicine: Health and Human Rights >(6/15/05; journal issue) > >Special Issue of Literature and Medicine >Health and Human Rights >Volume 25, Number 1 >Issue Editor: Priscilla Wald > >We are interested in essays that explore the intersection of health and >human rights. What questions are currently being asked at that juncture, >and how and why might we ask them through the study of literature >(broadly conceived)? We welcome essays that consider narratives about >health and human rights as well as the narratives that structure the >concepts of health and human rights. Essays might explore why certain >stories have dominated the field (for example, narratives of heroism >and/or atrocities) and with what effect? What other stories could be >told and what might be the outcome of those retellings? We would welcome >essays that take a literary critical or cultural analytic approach to >non-literary texts, exploring the language and images through which the >concepts of health and human rights are currently imagined. We are >especially interested in essays with a concentration on global health >and the discourse of human rights and on questions of justice and >access. This special issue is motivated by our sense that, in >significant ways, health and human rights are reconstituting each other, >and we believe that a study of this dynamic could yield important >insight into contemporary understanding (and deployment) of both terms. > >Deadline for submission: 15 June 2005 > >Manuscripts should be mailed to the address below and sent as an >attachment to the e-mail address below. Text and notes should be >double-spaced and prepared according to guidelines in The Chicago Manual >of Style, 15th edition. The manuscript should be accompanied by a cover >letter. Literature and Medicine is a pee-reviewed journal. Authors' >names should appear only on a cover letter and all identifiers in the >text should be masked so that manuscripts can be reviewed anonymously. >Manuscripts should be between 4,000 and 7,000 words of text in length. >Literature and Medicine reviews only unpublished manuscripts that are >not simultaneously under review for publication elsewhere. Direct all >inquiries and manuscripts to: > >[log in to unmask] > >Send paper copies of manuscript to: >Rita Charon & Maura Spiegel, Editors-in-Chief >Literature and Medicine >Program in Narrative Medicine, >College of P&S, Columbia University, >630 West 168th Street, PH9E--Room 105, >New York, NY 10032 > >-- >Tara McGann >Coordinator, Program in Narrative Medicine >Managing Editor, Literature & Medicine >Columbia University, P&S >PH 9E-105, 630 W. 168th Street >New York, NY 10032 >212-305-4975 work >212-305-9349 fax >http://www.narrativemedicine.org > > ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Meghan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html