CFP: Medical Imaging, MLA & SLS 2000
*** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS *** *** PLEASE CIRCULATE *** "Medical Imagining" sessions at TWO conferences: MLA & SLS The Society for Literature and Science (SLS) has indicated interest in a session on Medical Imaging for its conference in Atlanta, GA, October 5-8. For more information, visit the web site at http://sls2000.lcc.gatech.edu/ This call for papers is aimed at both conferences, SLS and MLA (Modern Language Association). If possible, two sessions will be organized. When submitting your proposal, please indicate your availability for SLS (Atlanta, Oct 5-8) or MLA (Washington, Dec 27-30) or both. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "More than Skin Deep: Medical Imaging, Culture, and the Body" The rhetoric, authority and metaphorics of medical images in professional and popular uses: research, diagnosis, and treatment; films, ads, and TV; the politics of race, sex, and disability. For instance, clinical photographs of disease and deformity, X-Ray, CAT and MRI scans of the body's interior, sonograms of fetuses, PET scans of the brain for research. diagnostic, and forensic purposes (to determine or confirm brain damage and mental disease or deficiency; or to determine sites of brain activity in perception, speech, affect, and other topics of cognitive interest). Papers welcomed from scholars of literature, history, anthropology, visual arts and medias, medicine and medical technology, disability studies, and related disciplines. Two-page abstract by 15 March to Jim Swan, English Dept., 306 Clemens Hall, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 14260. Email: jswan@acsu.buffalo.edu (attachments accepted).