CALL FOR PAPERS: Performative Medicine in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Era
The Michigan State University Medieval and Renaissance Consortium is sponsoring
a session entitled Performative Medicine at the Thirty-fifth International
Congress on Medieval Studies, May 4-7, 2000 in Kalamazoo, MI. This session
will explore the impact of descriptions and depictions of medical treatment as
it is administered to the body, examining the ways that attempts to record the
interactions between patient and caregiver portray the dynamics of healing in
popular literature and medical texts. Topics might address the roles
attributed to those involved in accounts of healings and miracles, images and
stories of saints' interactions with the sick, and reports of public
demonstrations of cures. Papers might call on artistic representations of
medical practitioners and healers, on scientific treatises and their
illustrations, or on saints' lives, histories and other popular literature.
Please direct 200-250 word abstracts of 20-minute papers to: Sara Fink,
Department of English, 201 Morrill Hall, Michigan State University,
East Lansing, MI 48824 or via email to finksara@pilot.msu.edu.
Please include your full name, complete mailing address (including email),
institutional affiliation, title of paper, and statement of need (or no need) of
audio-visual equipment.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: SEPTEMBER 20TH.
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