E-DRUG: "Selling Sickness, 2013: People before Profits": Call for Papers
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CALL FOR PAPERS
SELLING SICKNESS, 2013: PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS
Washington, D.C.
February 20-22, 2013
www.sellingsickness.com
An independent international interdisciplinary conference will
bring together academic scholars, healthcare reformers, progressive
health journalists and consumer advocates to examine and challenge the
global tide of disease-mongering and move towards A NEW HEALTH SOCIAL
MOVEMENT. The conference is cosponsored by grassroots and established
organizations.
Special aspects of the conference include:
• BOOKTIVISM workshops on disease-mongering reading groups, with
start-up instructions and annotated reading and film lists.
• A FINAL STATEMENT to be released after the conference as a
collaboration of academics, journalists and consumer advocates. It
will be published in the British Medical Journal and other press
outlets and disseminated by conference co-sponsors.
• A GOOD NEWS EXHIBIT HALL featuring progressive health/pharma-reform-
centered projects, organizations, and groups from academic, journalist
and consumer worlds, All registrants can apply for low-fee space in
the GNEH.
• INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS on using social media and developing
curricula to challenge disease-mongering.
• PERSONAL NARRATIVES of grass-roots activists, whistleblowers,
student organizers and crusaders within medicine
The CALL FOR PAPERS is now available on the conference website,
including instructions for the four types of proposals being invited.
The DEADLINE for proposals is October 1, 2012.
Contact Jessica@sellingsickness.com with any questions.
Leonore Tiefer
ltiefer@mindspring.com