Malady and Mortality – Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture
Conference, Falmouth University, Cornwall
19-20th September 2013
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Tony Walter, Centre for Death, University of Bath
Professor Alan Bleakley, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
Papers are invited on the following topics:
- Health, Well Being and Environment
- History of Medicine
- Public Health and Medicine
- Disease and Subjectivity
- Disability and Agency
- The Body in Pain
- Palliative Care
- Illness and Digital Technologies
- Narrative, e-Narratives and Memory
- Medical Intervention and Patient Testimony
- Communication and Patient Networks
- Medical Identities and Medical Gatekeepers
- Sustainability, Quality of Life and Euthanasia
- State Intervention and Legal Decisions
- Artes Moriendi and Privacy
- Definitions of Death
- Rights and Ownership
- Grief and Mourning
Please send abstracts (200 words max) to Dr Helen Thomas, with subject header ‘Malady and Mortality Conference’ by 1st May 2013
Email: helen.thomas@falmouth.ac.uk
Blog: http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/blog/cfp-malady-and-mortality-conference/