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-> CFP: Medical Imaging, MLA 2000
     by Jim Swan 

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Date: 15 Feb 2000 20:24:35 -0800
From: Jim Swan 
Subject: CFP: Medical Imaging, MLA 2000

A note to people on LITSCI: At the MLA convention in Chicago last
December,
it was decided that the Division on Literature and Science would
organize a
session bringing together Lit&Sci, Medicine, and Disability Studies.
This 
is the proposed session. Please circulate the CFP to colleagues and
other 
email lists.

Thanks,
Jim Swan
SUNY at Buffalo

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Call for Papers
Modern Language Association
Washington, DC
December, 2000

Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Science

"More than Skin Deep: Medical Imaging, Culture, and the Body"

The rhetoric, authority and metaphorics of medical images in
professional 
and popular uses: research, diagnosis, and treatment; films, ads, and
TV; 
the politics of race, sex, and disability. For instance, clinical
photographs of disease and deformity, X-Ray, CAT and MRI scans of the
body's interior, sonograms of fetuses, PET scans of the brain for
research.
diagnostic, and forensic purposes (to determine or confirm brain damage
and
mental disease or deficiency; or to determine sites of brain activity in
perception, speech, affect, and other topics of cognitive interest).
Papers
welcomed from scholars of literature, history, anthropology, visual arts
and medias, medicine and medical technology, disability studies, and
related disciplines.

Two-page abstract by 15 March to Jim Swan, English Dept., 306 Clemens
Hall,
SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 14260. Email: jswan@acsu.buffalo.edu
(attachments accepted).