{"id":22878,"date":"2023-04-18T08:06:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/?p=22878"},"modified":"2023-04-18T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T13:35:20","slug":"submissions-ars-medica-special-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdtrp.ca\/en\/submissions-ars-medica-special-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions for the Ars Medica Special Issue: Frictions of Futurity, Curative Tensions, and Artistic Reimaginings of Transplantation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call for Submissions for the Ars Medica<\/em> Special Issue: Frictions of Futurity, Curative Tensions, and Artistic Reimaginings of Transplantation<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Dr. Suze Berkhout’s research group at the University Health Network is looking for submissions for a special issue of Ars Medica<\/em> on Frictions of Futurity, Curative Tensions, and Artistic Reimaginings of Transplantation.<\/p>\n

Medicine (broadly speaking) is argued to aim toward futures shaped by cure. Within this curative imaginary\u2014the interpretive framework, practices, and disciplinary matrix that orient toward cure as the only rational possibility\u2014disability is uncontroversially a problem to be solved and medical intervention is inevitable and desirable. Such an imaginary arguably structures the field of solid organ transplantation to a great degree, as transplant technologies are seen as a \u201cbridge to the future,\u201d an opportunity for a \u201csecond chance\u201d at life, and a curative intervention for irremediable end-organ damage.<\/p>\n

But as much as solid organ transplantation is indebted to promises of a future cure, the central challenges that span this field undercut the seemingly straightforward relationship between transplant and cure. These include issues relating to waitlisting as well as adherence to complex post-transplant regimens, and challenges with long-term survivorship and the threat of graft failure. These issues and challenges reveal transplant medicine to also be a site of deep ambivalence and tension with respect to futurity and the possibility of having an \u201cafterward\u201d to transplant.<\/p>\n

Simultaneously, the contours of the curative imaginary are often part of the taken-for-granted aspects of daily routines and practices of biomedicine and not easily captured for analysis or critical reflection.<\/p>\n

In this special issue of Ars Medica<\/em>, the group invites submissions of narrative, fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, prose, visual art, soundscapes, and other digital art that draw out, reflect on, and interrogate frictional relations with cure that are embedded within the field of transplantation<\/strong>. The issue aims to consider what alternative futures might materialize when transplant medicine is brought into conversation with disability arts.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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SUBMIT NOW!<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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