Apologies for cross posting. >PCA/ACA AREA: HEALTH AND DISEASE IN POPULAR CULTURE > > > >POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE > >ATLANTA MARRIOTT MARQUIS HOTEL > >Atlanta, Georgia April 12-16, 2006 > >The "Health and Disease in Popular Culture" PCA/ACA area encourages >proposals from historical and contemporary perspectives. Proposals >focusing on popular culture may include subjects related to health and >disease in the mass media; drugs and pharmaceuticals; alcohol or >tobacco; infectious and chronic disease in popular culture; epidemics; >mental health; health institutions; health insurance; women and men as >healers, caretakers, and health professionals; literature and health; >race, gender, class and health; urban or rural health; colonization, >health, and disease, or globalization, health, and disease. >Contributions from interdisciplinary and single disciplines are welcome. >Individual or full panel proposals are considered. > > > >DEADLINE: November 4, 2005. Please send 300-500 word abstracts to > > > >Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman > >Email: [log in to unmask] > >Snail Mail Address: > >Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman > >Professor of Political Science and American Studies > >School of Arts and Sciences > >Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences-Boston > >179 Longwood Avenue > >Boston, MA 02115 > >Fax: 617-732-2801 > >Phone: 617-732-2904 > >Email: [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > > > > Dan Malleck, PhD Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences Brock University 500 Glenridge Ave St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1 905 688-5550 ext 5108