{"id":1444,"date":"2018-02-20T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2018-02-14T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:53:57","slug":"cfp-cultural-crossings-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2018\/02\/20\/cfp-cultural-crossings-care\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Cultural Crossings of Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.med.uio.no\/helsam\/english\/research\/news-and-events\/events\/conferences\/2018\/cultural-crossings660px.jpg\" alt=\"Portaits\" width=\"660\" height=\"330\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Julia Kristeva and Professor Marie Rose Moro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Cultural Crossings of Care &#8211; an Appeal to the Medical Humanities&#8217; is an upcoming conference to be held at the University of Oslo on the 26th-27th October 2018. The university will welcome keynote speakers Professor Julia Kristeva and Professor Marie Rose Moro. The conference aims to build upon the work already done in a <a href=\"http:\/\/mh.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2017\/09\/21\/medhum-2017-011263\">position paper<\/a> by Kristeva, Moro,\u00a0<span class=\"name\">John \u00d8demark, and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"name\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Eivind Engebretsen which was recently published in\u00a0<em>BMJ Medical Humanities <\/em>and which argues that m<\/span>odern medicine is confronted with cultural crossings in various forms; in facing these challenges, Kristeva et al. argue that it is not enough to simply increase our insight into the cultural dimensions of health and well-being. We must, more radically, question the conventional distinction between the &#8216;objectivity of science&#8217; and the &#8216;subjectivity of culture&#8217;. This obligation creates an urgent call for the medical humanities but also for a fundamental rethinking of their grounding assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<p>1. A transcultural approach to medicine.<br \/>\n2. A deconstruction of the difference between &#8216;hard&#8217; and &#8216;soft&#8217; science.<br \/>\n3. The medical cultures behind the production and construal of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Abstracts are due on the <strong>15th of May 2018<\/strong> and can be submitted through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.med.uio.no\/helsam\/english\/research\/news-and-events\/events\/conferences\/2018\/cultural-crossings-of-care.html\">the conference&#8217;s website<\/a>, where you will also find a more detailed CfP.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8216;Cultural Crossings of Care &#8211; an Appeal to the Medical Humanities&#8217; is an upcoming conference to be held at the University of Oslo on the 26th-27th October 2018. The university will welcome keynote speakers Professor Julia Kristeva and Professor Marie Rose Moro. The conference aims to build upon the work already done in a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2018\/02\/20\/cfp-cultural-crossings-care\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}