We invite papers that address the changes of human subjects – their bodies and selfhood, the modes of private and public interaction – in the light of various technological and institutional innovations in medicine occurred over the past few decades. The researches are encouraged to pay particular attention to integration and dissemination of the latest biotechnologies within the medical sector (locally and globally) and to the effects they have on existential experience, moral judgement and necessity of legal regulation. Similarly, we are interested in the changes of patients’ awareness, and also in the self-reflection of medical community in regard to gradual liberalization of public life and cultural globalization in the post-Soviet countries.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- 4P Medicine: social prospects and ethical frictions,
- Boundaries between treatment and enhancement,
- Redefinition of “death” and “dying” in the age of new medical technologies
- De-stigmatization of oncology patients,
- “Neurochemical selves”: the spread of antidepressants use as social and anthropological problem,
- Spread and reglamentation of assisted reproductive technologies in the post-Soviet societies,
- “Narrative turn” in medicine: results/prospects of application in Western and Eastern European contexts,
- Choice vs. care: alternative logics of interaction between doctors and patients in biomedicine.
The deadline for submissions is June 15.
Author Guidelines available online.
To make your submission, please, register at the website of the Topos Journal and submit your article via “Make a Submission” button.
In case of any questions, please contact the journal’s academic secretary Kseniya Shtalenkova via journal.topos @ ehu.lt.