“Since myths can be made to mean an indefinite number of things, it is more fruitful to study what in fact myths have been made to mean.” Northrop Frye (1957) Beauty and the Beast seems to possess a …
Reviewer needed: ‘Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche’ by Josh Berson
We are pleased to offer for review ‘Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche’ by Josh Berson (Bloomsbury, 2015). Expressions of interest are welcome from across the medical …
Habit, Addiction and Thought (CfP, London, 30 June & 1 July 2017)
The London Conference in Critical Thought 2017 is a multiple-stream interdisciplinary conference hosted by the School of Law and Social Sciences at London South Bank University. It will offer a space …
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Brocher Foundation – Call for 2016 Fellowship Proposals in Medical Humanities
The Brocher Foundation offers visiting researchers the opportunity to come at the Brocher Centre in a peaceful park on the shores of Lake Geneva, to write a book, articles, an essay or a PhD thesis. …
Ageing, Dementia and the Social Mind (23rd Sociology of Health & Illness Monograph Call for papers
Ageing, Dementia and the Social Mind 23rd Sociology of Health & Illness Monograph Call for papers Editors: Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard The sociology of dementia is a relatively neglected but …
2 PhD candidates ‘social studies of medicine’ (CfA, Maastricht University, 20 April 2016)
Applicants are invited for two 4 year PhD positions within the project ‘The birth of the digital doctor? A comparative anthropology of medical techno-perception’. The project is funded by the European …