[Commlist] CFP - Health Hauntology - Somatechnics

*Call for papers – special issue of Somatechnics*****

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*Health hauntology: Exploring the temporal complexities of illness as 
risk and prognosis*

Guest editors: Carsten Stage (Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark) and 
Ann-Katrine Schmidt Nielsen (Postdoc, Aarhus University, Denmark)

Illness isincreasinglydistributed across pasts, present and futuresin 
new and complex ways.Owing to a range of technological developments—for 
example, the advent and spread of screening programs, preventive 
ultrasound sessions,and genetic tests—illness istoday oftenexperienced 
in a pre-diagnostic field and linked to various types of risk assessment 
andprognosis.At the same time, these technologies sensitize us to the 
fact that the body is intimately tied to the past pathologies of (lost) 
others. As such,illnesscan today be experienced as a virtual or even 
haunting presence unsettling the categories and temporalities of health 
and disease, life and death.

This special issue of Somatechnics sets out to explore the lived and 
temporal experience of pre-diagnostic illness through the framework of 
‘health hauntology’. Hauntology – a concept coined by Jacques Derrida – 
presents an innovative framework for the study of new technologically 
enabled illness experiences as it problematises the binaries of 
ontological being and non-being, presence and absence. Instead, it 
engages with the potency, agency, and meaning of that which is only 
seemingly absent, virtual, or non-present. Hauntology can, thus, be used 
to understand the current challenges to the hitherto dominant 
ontological way of thinking about the body, illness and health presented 
by biotechnological developments and prognostics. The special issue is 
open to explorations of the hauntological aspects of temporally, 
relationally, and affectively complex illness experiences from an array 
of disciplines and perspectives.

Possible topics could be (but are not limited to) the hauntological 
dimensions of:

  * Prognosis in healthcare
  * Genetic illnesses and dispositions
  * Predictive genetic tests and consultations (in and outside
    healthcare institutions)
  * Health screening and control programs
  * Media representations of haunted health
  * Narratives of pre-patienthood and pre-symptomatic illness
  * Illness in relation to gender, race and kinship
  * Inherited, shared or distributed illnesses
  * Precision or surveillance medicine
  * Pregnancy and illness
  * Trauma in relation to health and illness
  * Affects of health and illness
  * Contagion and epidemics
  * Health in relation to lifestyle
  * Organ transplantation
  * Experiences of illness as risk

Please submit an abstract of max 500 words presenting the core 
argument(s) of your paper. Abstracts must be submitted to Carsten Stage 
((norcs /at/ cc.au.dk) <mailto:(norcs /at/ cc.au.dk)>).

Timeline:

Deadline for abstracts: February 1, 2024

Notifications of acceptance: February 15, 2024

Deadline for full articles (6.000-7.000words): August 10, 2024

Expected publication in early 2025

Any questions related to the special issue can be sent to Carsten Stage 
((norcs /at/ cc.au.dk) <mailto:(norcs /at/ cc.au.dk)>).

Somatechnics is published online and in print by Edinburgh University 
Press:https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/soma 
<https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/soma>. No payment from authors will 
be required.

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