Guest Editors: Professor Sherrilyn Roush and Dr Tuomas Pernu (King’s College London, UK)
Palgrave Communications, published by Palgrave Macmillan, is a peer reviewed, open access journal dedicated to publishing high- quality original research across all areas of the humanities, the social sciences and business studies.
Palgrave Communications and the guest editors are inviting article proposals and submissions for a special article collection – Self-knowledge in and out of illness.
Self-knowledge has always played a role in healthcare since people need to be able to accurately assess their bodies or behaviour in order to determine whether to seek medical help. Yet more recently it has come to play a larger role, as healthcare has moved from a more paternalistic model to one where the patients are expected to take charge of their health, as more people live with chronic illness that requires self-management, and as the internet makes information and disinformation easier to find than to know what to do with.
- When and how do we get self-knowledge, and of what?
- When and how is it useful and why?
Contributions are invited that explore—from philosophical, sociological and/or psychological perspectives—how these and other questions play out in a variety of medical contexts.
This collection is in collaboration with the meeting ‘Self-knowledge in and out of illness’, that took place at King’s College London in May, 2016.
Deadline for article proposals: July 1, 2016
Latest deadline for full submissions: September 1, 2016
Article proposals and general enquires should be sent to the Managing Editor.
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