[csaa-forum] CFP: Health hauntology - Exploring the temporal complexities of illness as risk and prognosis

[Randell-Moon, Holly]

Call for papers – special issue of Somatechnics

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

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

Illness is increasingly distributed across pasts, present and futures in 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 is today often experienced in a pre-diagnostic field and linked to various types of risk assessment and prognosis. 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, illness can 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 (6.000-7.000 words): 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>



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