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The Possibilities of the Medical Humanities

Edited by:

Matthew L. Reznicek, PhD, University of Minnesota, United States
Rania M Rafik Khalil, PhD, British University in Egypt, Egypt

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 27 October 2025


 invites participating authors to submit to our Collection on The Possibilities of the Medical Humanities. Topics include but are not limited to:
1. Representations of pandemics: Covid-19, influenza, Cholera, Tuberculosis, Malaria, the plague
2. Histories of the intertwining of medicine, scientific knowledge, healing
3. Representations of health, illness, death, dying in wars, natural disasters, slave plantations
4. Representations of disability, dementia, aging, and neurodiversity
5. Cures, potions, alternative medicine, rituals, pain, and healing
6. Colonialism, imperialism, and the Empire
7. Curricular opportunities for integrating the Humanities into Medical Education
8. Historical perspectives on medicine in the East, West, and Arab region
9. Women and medicine

Image credit: 漏 Anastasiia S / stock.adobe.com

Please note that this Collection accepts submissions ONLY from invited authors.

Meet the Guest Editors

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Matthew L. Reznicek, PhD, University of Minnesota, United States

Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School, where he uses eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and Irish literature to explore the impact of social, historical, and cultural factors in the experience of medicine and health.

Rania M Rafik Khalil, PhD, British University in Egypt, Egypt

Rania M Rafik Khalil is associate professor of English literature. Dr Khalil holds the position of Acting Vice Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the British University in Egypt. Her research interests include Animal Studies, Eco-drama, Gerontology, Irish Studies, Asylum Seeking, Racial Disparities, Regional and World Literature, and the Medical Humanities. 


 

About the Collection

 invites participating authors to submit to our Collection on The Possibilities of the Medical Humanities. When he asked what was missing from medical training, K. Danner Clouser, the first philosopher to teach ethics at a U.S. medical school, answered 鈥渆verything that makes us human.鈥� In the 1980s, Clouser called attention to the 鈥渂elief that something vital and fundamental was missing in health professions education and that the humanities could fill in those gaps and omissions.鈥� In the years since, this provocative idea of the humanities providing something 鈥渕issing鈥� in the way we think about, study, and teach medicine and health has flourished. We now see the Medical and Health Humanities as a recogniseable field with an ever-growing array of publications and journals, exhibitions and performances, curricula and courses. The Medical and Health Humanities have fundamentally changed the way that we think about the relationship between conceptions of health, the body, illness, death, medicine because they insist that we integrate our skills as humanists to the questions predominantly reserved for STEM curricula. The symposium theme of medical humanities is an intersection between literature, social sciences, and medicine. Medical humanities is the study of the human aspects of medicine from within traditional arts disciplines. Medical humanities is not just interdisciplinary, it is also a multidisciplinary field, consisting of humanities (theory of literature and arts, philosophy, ethics, history and theology), social sciences (anthropology, psychology and sociology) and arts (literature, theatre, cinema/film, music and visual arts).
鈥� Possible topics include but are not limited to:
1. Representations of pandemics: Covid-19, influenza, Cholera, Tuberculosis, Malaria, the plague
2. Histories of the intertwining of medicine, scientific knowledge, healing
3. Representations of health, illness, death, dying in wars, natural disasters, slave plantations
4. Representations of disability, dementia, aging, and neurodiversity
5. Cures, potions, alternative medicine, rituals, pain, and healing
6. Colonialism, imperialism, and the Empire
7. Curricular opportunities for integrating the Humanities into Medical Education
8. Historical perspectives on medicine in the East, West, and Arab region
9. Women and medicine

Image credit: 漏 Anastasiia S / stock.adobe.com

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Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of research articles and reviews. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our  to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, . Please, select the appropriate Collection title 鈥淭he Possibilities of the Medical Humanities" under the 鈥淒etails鈥� tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal鈥檚 standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal鈥檚 standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the . The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.