Author Archives: Kym Weed

Wilson College is devoting its annual Humanities Conference to the theme of Healthcare in the Humanities this year.  The conference is sponsored by Wilson’s M.A. Humanities program as well as their new undergraduate program in Healthcare and Medical Humanities. This … Read more

The Yale Review of Disability Experience is seeking submissions for their first print issue until March 1st. They will be accepting submissions for online publication on a rolling basis. The first issue will be published in the Spring (in April … Read more

The Medical Heritage Library, Inc. is hosting an online conference to celebrate a decade of digitizing primary resources in the history of medicine on Friday November 13, 2020.  The Medical Heritage Library is a digital curation collaborative among some of … Read more

Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal is pleased to invite new writers to contribute to the online publication, which is designed to bring together humanities scholars and students from across institutions and disciplines in a “department without walls.” The site is … Read more

In the wake of the H1N1 pandemic, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency created a protocol for rationing ventilators in the event of an even more severe public health crisis. The Criteria for Mass Ventilator Triage stipulated that certain conditions should … Read more

Professor Ana Vinea is offering a new course called Medicine and Modernity in the Arab World this fall! ARAB 214 will meet on TuTh 3:30-4:45pm. Course Description: The class introduces students to questions of medicine and modernity in the Arab … Read more

While the COIVD-19 pandemic has been covered extensively by news media, one conversation is often left unspoken: ableism is unjustly placing disabled people at a higher risk of COVID-19 infection and mortality. An ableist perspective implements “biased attitudes and beliefs” … Read more