[Commlist] Call for Papers: Medical Culture in East Asian Cinema and Media

    Medical Culture in East Asian Cinema and Media

deadline for submissions:
April 1, 2021
full name / name of organization:
Ling Zhang, Yuqian Yan, and Pao-chen Tang
contact email:
(eastasianmedicinebook /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(eastasianmedicinebook /at/ gmail.com)>

*Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume on Medical Culture in East Asian 
Cinema and Media*

Editors: Ling Zhang (SUNY Purchase College), Yuqian Yan (Washington 
University in St. Louis), and Pao-chen Tang (University of Manchester)

The current COVID-19 global pandemic has inspired renewed attention to 
the intersection between public health and mass media. With constant 
media updates of case counts, healthcare guidelines, and preventive 
strategies, among other public health communications, the boundaries of 
 various imagined communities have been newly established or strongly 
reinforced. The complex cultural and geopolitical region of East Asia, 
in particular, has become a center of media attention, following wide 
circulation of essentialized cultural norms (such as collectivity and 
uniformity), stereotypical accounts of hygiene habits, racialized 
discourses surrounding the East Asian bodies, and techno-orientalist 
narratives of East Asian use of digital means for disease tracing and 
control. Both personal and public health outcomes thus have become 
inextricably intertwined with processes of representation and 
(re)mediation, while the pandemic itself has become a media event 
inseparable from various audiovisual forms. We are therefore living a 
historical moment that demands reflection on the precarious 
socio-political structures revealed through audiovisual media, including 
 health care access and its relation to class, gender, and ethnic 
hierarchies.

Our edited volume seeks to contextualize such discussions in light of 
larger historical narratives regarding 20th and 21st century East Asia, 
 with audiovisual media serving as our primary object of study. We 
welcome submissions that consider medical culture in relation to cinema 
 and media culture in the East Asian context. We understand “medical 
culture” as a bio-cultural concept that encompasses not only scientific 
 knowledge and practice but also such cultural domains as aesthetics, 
ethics, politics, and public policy. Some questions that concern us 
include: How does historical practice of health (in)justice, mediated by 
 audiovisual media, inform our contemporary understandings of public 
health crises? How can audiovisual media disseminate information about 
the historical transformation of public health policies and facilitate 
collaboration and mutual understanding  across local, national, and 
regional sectors in East Asia? How might East Asian case studies 
highlight the convergence of film and media theory with the medical 
humanities?

We invite submission of paper proposals on topics that may include but 
are not limited to the following. We especially welcome contributions 
that focus on Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and transregional East Asia.

●  traditional and modern medicines

●  personal hygiene, environmental sanitation, and ecological criticism

●  diseases caused by pollution, climate change, and environmental violence

●  medical theory and practice in relation to colonialism/decolonization 
 and racism

●  medical science and technology (x-ray, microfilm, etc)

●  educational/scientific film, medical image-making

●  physical or mental therapy in/as media

●  medical institutions and practitioners, health care systems

●  medical practice in rural areas, distribution of medical resources

●  pandemics/epidemics

●  food and diet

●  disabilities and neurodiversity

●  the cult of youth and anxiety over aging

●  gender, sexuality, and medical culture

We plan to propose the edited volume to Hong Kong University Press for 
publication in their Crossings: Asian Cinema and Media Culture series. 
All submissions should be based on original research and not under 
consideration for publication elsewhere.

Deadlines for submission

Please send your working title, institutional affiliation, abstract (of 
 no more than 500 words), and short bio to 
*(eastasianmedicinebook /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(eastasianmedicinebook /at/ gmail.com)>* by *April 1st, 2021*. The 
editorial team will notify selected proposals by April 30th, 2021. The 
deadline for first draft submission (between 7000 and 8000 words) is 
December 1st, 2021.​


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