As
part of the Wellcome Trust funded project 'Science Fiction and the
Medical Humanities', the BMJ Group journal Medical Humanities will be
publishing a special issue guest edited by Dr Gavin Miller, University
of Glasgow. We invite papers of broad interest to an international
readership of medical humanities scholars and practising clinicians on
the topic ‘Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities’.
Science fiction is a fertile ground for the imagining of biomedical advances. Technologies such as cloning, prosthetics, and rejuvenation are frequently encountered in science-fiction stories. Science fiction also offers alternative ideals of health and wellbeing, and imagines new forms of disease and suffering. The special issue seeks papers that explore issues of health, illness, and medicine in science-fiction narratives within a variety of media (written word, graphic novel, theatre, dance, film and television, etc.).
We are also particularly interested in articles that explore the biomedical ‘technoscientific imaginary’: the culturally-embedded imagining of futures enabled by technoscientific innovation. We especially welcome papers that explore science-fiction tropes, motifs, and narratives within medical and health-related discourses, practices, and institutions. The question – how does the biomedical technoscientific imaginary permeate the everyday and expert worlds of modern medicine and healthcare? – may be a useful prompt for potential authors.
For further details on call and project: http://scifimedhums.glasgow.ac.uk/journal-issue/
Twitter: @scifimedhums
Email: arts-scifimedhums@glasgow.ac.uk
Science fiction is a fertile ground for the imagining of biomedical advances. Technologies such as cloning, prosthetics, and rejuvenation are frequently encountered in science-fiction stories. Science fiction also offers alternative ideals of health and wellbeing, and imagines new forms of disease and suffering. The special issue seeks papers that explore issues of health, illness, and medicine in science-fiction narratives within a variety of media (written word, graphic novel, theatre, dance, film and television, etc.).
We are also particularly interested in articles that explore the biomedical ‘technoscientific imaginary’: the culturally-embedded imagining of futures enabled by technoscientific innovation. We especially welcome papers that explore science-fiction tropes, motifs, and narratives within medical and health-related discourses, practices, and institutions. The question – how does the biomedical technoscientific imaginary permeate the everyday and expert worlds of modern medicine and healthcare? – may be a useful prompt for potential authors.
For further details on call and project: http://scifimedhums.glasgow.ac.uk/journal-issue/
Twitter: @scifimedhums
Email: arts-scifimedhums@glasgow.ac.uk
