{"id":5203,"date":"2024-04-25T14:56:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5203"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:56:52","slug":"cfp-alternative-approaches-to-health-in-the-long-eighteenth-century%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5203","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Alternative Approaches to Health in the Long-Eighteenth Century\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In his multi-volume\u00a0<em>Hyg\u00ebia; Or, Essays Moral and Medical<\/em> (1802), Thomas Beddoes notes the paradox that \u201cno one knows the value of health, till it is lost\u201d (Vol. I, Essay I, p. 83). Stretching from the 1665 outbreak of the plague through the 1850 cholera epidemic, the \u201clong\u201d eighteenth century witnesses an extraordinary debate over the attainment, preservation, and the very meaning of health through competing discourses and practices that give shape and influence the development of medicine, history, literature, politics, and culture well into the nineteenth century. From the perspective of health and medicine post \u201cgerm theory,\u201d this period functions as a gateway for \u201cthinking differently about the individual subject, health, and nature.\u201d Indeed, even before the development of germ theory, the different understandings of disease effectively functioned as \u201calternative or complimentary, rather than contradictory,\u201d since their definitions were continuously in flux<sup>1<\/sup>. This difference allows scholarship to chart the coexistence of multiple medical and social models of caring for the body, or even what counts as \u2018health\u2019 or \u2018medicine.\u2019 From debates between Brunonian, Hunterian, and Boerhavian conceptions of the body to indigenous and non-western practices, we invite scholarly essays that contest and complicate our understanding of the meanings, representations, and practices of health and\/or medicine in the period.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This collection seeks proposals for 5,000-6,000 word essays that explore alternative conceptions, practices, and approaches to health in the long-eighteenth century. We expect that these essays will be accessible to a wide range of scholars from different disciplines and hope that they will be written in a way that makes them available to advanced undergraduate readers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We particularly invite essays that explore:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25cf Indigenous and non-western traditions of health and healing&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25cf Home remedies and homeopathy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25cf Prosthetics and other technological developments for atypical bodies \u25cf Intersections of race, imperial networks, and health&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25cf Literary renegotiations of health, illness, and care&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please submit 300-400 word abstracts to Matthew L. Reznicek (<a href=\"mailto:reznicek@umn.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reznicek@umn.edu<\/a>)&nbsp;and Miriam Wallace (<a href=\"mailto:mwall29@uis.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mwall29@uis.edu<\/a>)&nbsp;by 17 May 2024. We will aim for the submission of 5,000-6,000 word essays in the Spring of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his multi-volume\u00a0Hyg\u00ebia; Or, Essays Moral and Medical (1802), Thomas Beddoes notes the paradox that \u201cno one knows the value of health, till it is lost\u201d (Vol. I, Essay I,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=5203\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[48,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}