Call for Papers
The call for papers is closed. Conference program
is full.
We invite proposals for papers representing
all disciplines that look at connections between health and
place and that respond to the following questions:
• What are the connections between place and health?
• How are health, sickness and place experientially grounded
and socially constructed?
• How do experiences of ill-health and healing practices
vary between places?
• How are national and transnational discourses about
illness, health and healing inflected by local conditions and
local experiences?
• How do regions function within constitutional settlements
that organize health care along national/sub-national axes?
• How do shared experiences of affliction and healing
help to constitute functional or imagined communities?
• How have ideas about health and healing figured in the
colonial encounter? ...in the process of state formation?
• How do regions organize health care?
• What does a spatial approach offer to the trans-national
study of health and healing?
• How can a spatial analysis of health care and healing
systems illuminate the subjectivities and strategies of those
who provided care? …the agency of the sick?
This conference seeks to foster interdisciplinary scholarship.
We welcome papers from all disciplinary traditions, including
but not limited to Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History,
Medical Humanities, Native Studies, Political Studies, and Sociology.
Comparative papers and papers that take an inter regional, inter
provincial, trans border or international approach are especially
welcome. We also welcome the submission of panel sessions.
Submission of Abstracts:
Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief
bio to: place@ualberta.ca.
To allow for proper consideration of the abstracts by the scientific
committee please submit by 31 March 2007.
Program Committee: Kristin Burnett, Chris Dooley, Erika Dyck,
Christopher Fletcher, Shannon Stunden Bower, Pamela Brett-Maclean,
and Nairne Cameron
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