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Meeting Program Units

2022 Annual Meeting

Denver, Colorado

Meeting Begins11/19/2022
Meeting Ends11/22/2022

Call for Papers Opens: 1/19/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 3/18/2022

Requirements for Participation

Healthcare and Disability in the Ancient World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The unit plans to have three sessions at the 2022 meeting. Two sessions with an open call for papers: 1) At least one open session welcoming paper proposals on any aspect of health and disability related to the Bible. 2) A jointly sponsored session with the Religious Experience in Antiquity and Mind, Society, and Religion units: Medical anthropology and Disability Studies have demonstrated the significance of culture in the experience and effects of illness, as well as the (successful) treatment of these conditions. For this session, we invite papers that explore the relationship between the biological (including psychological) features of illness and the cultural responses to it . How do specific cultural instances of diagnosis or treatment (e.g., pharamceuticals, ritual, dream incubation, isolation) interact with underlying cognitive and biological patterns? How are innate heuristics (e.g., of contagion, ingestion, transformation) expressed in specific cases in ancient texts and societies? Please note that presentations will be brief (a tight 10 minutes) and will be circulated among participants two weeks before the meeting. 3) A session reviewing Meghan R. Henning, Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature (Yale University Press, 2021)

Program Unit Chairs

Chris de Wet
Meghan Henning

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