CFP SSHM Annual Conference 2012 -- Extension of CFP

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The deadline for proposals for the SSHM conference that is due to expire today on 31 January has been changed. THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 3 FEBRUARY. For full details of the conference and proposals procedures see: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/emotions/docs/55708.pdf
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The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major biannual, international, interdisciplinary conference. From 10-12 September 2012, it will be held at Queen Mary, University of London in conjunction with the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions on the topic of Emotions, Health and Wellbeing.

The conference this year investigates the intimate relationship between the emotions and medicine. Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers, addressing any chronological period and from across the disciplines, including the medical humanities. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

* Managing the passions
* Disease, contagion and emotion
* Death and mourning
* Pathologies of emotion
* The politics of well-being and happiness
* The chemistry and physiology of emotion
* Psychosomatic medicine and emotion

To submit a proposal for a 20-minute paper, or for a panel (three papers, plus a panel rationale) please visit our web site.

The deadline for proposals is 31 January 2012.

A number of bursaries will be available for postgraduate speakers. Subsidized on-site childcare will be made available subject to demand. Discounted registration fees will be available to members of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.

For more information, see the conference website at: http://medicalhumanities.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/emotions-health-and-we... .