Resources
For information about fellowships/funding, CFPs, conferences, and other health humanities-related programs, visit the UNC HHIVE Lab’s website.
If you want to get more involved with LMCC, join our email list, attend an upcoming meeting, or suggest other resources we should add to our site, please let us know! See the email addresses for our Co-Directors on the Home page of this site!
Conferences and CFPs:
- For potential CFPs, check out the Literature, Medicine, Medical Humanities: An MLA Commons site and the Center for Medical Humanities.
- See also the UNC HHIVE Lab’s website.
Fellowships and Funding:
- The Huntington Library Fellowships: Short- and long-term fellowships for continual research at the Huntington in a variety of fields including Middle Ages, Renaissance, 19th- and 20th-century literature, British drama, Colonial America, American Civil War, Western America, and California. The Burndy Library has an extensive history of science and technology collection, as well as an important collection of scientific instruments.
- The Wellcome Trust: A variety of funding schemes and fellowships with the goal of supporting wider collaboration between historians of medicine and scholars from other disciplines.
- The McLendon-Thomas Award: Awarded to the best unpublished graduate or undergraduate student essay on a historical topic in health sciences. The deadline for applying is at the end of September each year. Any paper written within the past year is eligible for submission.
- See also the UNC HHIVE Lab’s website.
UNC Resources and Sites:
- Bullitt History of Medicine Club
- English and Comparative Literature Major, concentration in Science, Medicine, and Literature
- Medicine, Literature, and Culture minor
- ENGL 268: Medicine, Literature, and Culture (undergraduate course)
- An introduction to key topics that focus on questions of representation at the intersections of medicine, literature, and culture. Honors version available.
- English MA Program in Literature, Medicine, and Culture
- Graduate Certificate in Literature, Medicine, and Culture
- Health and Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Venue for Exploration (HHIVE) at UNC (the HHIVE Lab)
- The Health Humanities Journal of UNC-Chapel Hill
- Narratives in Medicine
Other Related Resources and Sites:
- Literature and Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship that explores representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body
- Morbid Anatomy: Surveying the interstices of art and medicine, death and culture
- Popular Medicine in America: 1800-1900
- MLA Directory of Periodicals: The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, lists over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submission for publication.
- Index-Cat (Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office): IndexCat is a digitized version of the printed multi-part Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, U.S. Army. It contains material dated from the 1400s through 1950 and is an important resource for researchers in the history of medicine, history of science, and for clinical research.
- Magazines for Libraries: An evaluative overview of magazines. The most recent list is available at the Reference Desk in Davis Library.