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                Please see below for a Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Palgrave
<br>Communications on 'Humanising Epidemiology'
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<br>https://www.nature.com/palcomms/calls-for-papers#Epidemiology
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<br>Humanising Epidemiology: Non-medical Investigations into Epi/Pandemic
<br>Phenomena
<br>Guest Editor: Diaa Ahmed Mohamed Ahmedien (Faculty of Art Education, Helwan
<br>University, Cairo, Egypt)
<br>Co-Guest Editor: Michael Ochsner (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
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<br>Advisory board: Jon Hovi (University of Oslo, Norway), Adele Langlois
<br>(University of Lincoln, UK), Tony Waters (California State University,
<br>Chicago, USA), Merryn McKinnon (Australian National University, Australia),
<br>Chisomo Kalinga (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK), Ann H Kelly (King's
<br>College London, UK), Jochen Buechel (Charite Berlin, Germany), Lin Wang
<br>(University of Cambridge, UK), Shinichi Egawa (Tohoku University, Japan).
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<br>Pandemic outbreaks as public health crises have the potential to reshape human
<br>life, from herpes, and Legionnaires’ disease to HIV and Ebola. Each virus or
<br>bacteria has its unique biological properties by which it interacts with and
<br>affects populations. Human coronaviruses, for instance, have been known since
<br>the 1960s. In the past two decades, however, several new dangerous human
<br>coronaviruses have emerged, namely, SARS-CoV in 2002, MERS-CoV in 2012, and
<br>currently, SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of the disease known as COVID-19, which has
<br>put global public health institutions on high alert. Each pandemic brings its
<br>own political, economic, cultural, social and ethical challenges. Although
<br>efforts to combat such outbreaks are primarily driven by clinical and medical
<br>professionals, the contributions of academics, policymakers and other
<br>stakeholders from other arenas, including the humanities, arts and social
<br>sciences (HASS), should not be overlooked.
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<br>Against this backdrop, this research collection aims to examine the role and
<br>contributions of the HASS disciplines, as well as interdisciplinary efforts,
<br>in shaping the global response to public health crises. To this end, this
<br>collection intends to bring together a range of perspectives, empirical and
<br>theoretical, qualitative and quantitative, which draw on methods and
<br>approaches from, among other areas: cultural studies, new-media arts, history,
<br>digital humanities, law, media and communication studies, political sciences,
<br>psychology, sociology, social policy, science and technology studies.
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<br>We welcome articles exploring topics including, but not limited to, the
<br>following key themes:
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<br>  *   The role of virtual societies/environments in reinforcing the conceptual
<br>principles of digital citizenship and other related social alternatives, by
<br>which the effects of quarantining and its social and mental consequences can
<br>be mitigated;
<br>  *   The cultural, political, and ethical dimensions of telemedicine and the
<br>role of sociology of artificial intelligence and social robotics to develop
<br>their potential applications to secure efficient healthcare systems within the
<br>context of today's digital revolution;
<br>  *   Social, cultural, and ethical trends in biopolitics and their effects on
<br>epi/pandemic responses;
<br>  *   Cultural, ethical, and aesthetic potential of enhanced technologies to
<br>be presented to laypeople via bio or digital media;
<br>  *   Human, viral, and artificial intelligence; theoretical and empirical
<br>approaches towards convergent interpretations of virality within the context
<br>of contemporary cyberculture;
<br>  *   Historical, philosophical or social inquiries into how pandemics emerge
<br>and transform societies and their influence on innovation and technology;
<br>  *   Unfolding pandemic phenomena as social drama: the ways societies respond
<br>to a contagious disease at different times, the various challenges they face,
<br>how they deal with them, and how economic and cultural dimensions may have a
<br>lasting effect;
<br>  *   Social, psychological and economic consequences of the complete or
<br>near-complete institutional and societal lockdown; policies to address such
<br>consequences and strategies for non-pharmaceutical public health
<br>interventions;
<br>  *   Diverse human responses to pandemics, relating to religion, race,
<br>ethnicity, class, or gender identity;
<br>  *   Approaches to highlight the dynamic role of medical humanities to
<br>improve integrative medical understanding and fuel social cohesion and
<br>psychological stability when direct/pure medical interventions are not enough
<br>to support the public;
<br>  *   The influence of individuals' specific choices and organisational
<br>routines on the relationship between transmissibility and pathogenicity of
<br>viruses as well as the regional and historical variability of such influences
<br>due to social, cultural and ethical values.
<br>  *   Scholarly contributions that address the above areas but with a focus on
<br>COVID-19, directly or indirectly, are particularly welcomed.
<br>  *   Interdisciplinary perspectives are welcomed, whether between HASS
<br>disciplines, or at the interface between HASS scholarship and the physical and
<br>clinical sciences, or engineering, mathematics, computer science.
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<br>While purely clinical and medical studies are not in scope, contributions that
<br>draw on contributions from areas like medical anthropology, telemedicine, bio
<br>philosophy, integrative medicine, global public health, social medicine, and
<br>digital medicine, will be considered.
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<br>Prospective authors can direct questions to the Guest Editor
<br>(diaa_mohammed@fae.helwan.edu.eg, hsscomms@springernature.com) in the first
<br>instance. Submissions will be welcomed up until the end of December 2021.
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<br>Dr Adele Langlois | Associate Professor of International Relations/Programme
<br>Leader MA International Relations
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