CFP Correction: Medical IMAGING (not "Imagining")
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L for Jim Swan. I think the first posting
of this correction message ended up being mis-routed; apologies for any
duplication.
Russell Johnson
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:30:10 -0500
From: Jim Swan <jswan@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: CFP Correction: Medical IMAGING (not "Imagining")
This has the correct title (also note new deadline, March 22):
"MEDICAL IMAGING" 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. 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.
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"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 22 March to Jim Swan, English Dept., 306 Clemens Hall,
SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 14260. Email: jswan@acsu.buffalo.edu
(attachments accepted).
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