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American Association of Geographer

Session Title: Health Geography, Medical Humanities, and Narrative Medicine

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Pedagogy and the humanities and arts in health or medical geography
• Methods and methodologies using humanities and the arts
• Medical and Illness narratives
• Medical humanities and health inequities
• Criticality and medical humanities in geography
• Innovative, critical, or radical uses of the humanities and the arts
• Arts-based interventions into treatment of chronic illness
• Living disease, illness or disability and exploring medical humanities or narrative medicine in care
• Engaging medical humanities or narrative medicine in parenting or caring for someone with disease, illness or disability
• Theorizing the humanities and art
• Visualization and art
• Literary or performance art, medical humanities, and geography

Please contact either Sarah de Leeuw (deleeuws@unbc.ca) or Courtney Donovan (cdonovan@sfsu.edu) by October 28 if you are interested in being part of the sessions, have any questions for us, or would like more information generally about the session(s).