中華民國比較文學學會與國立交通大學外文系謹定於6月22日（星期六）假交通大學人社三館，聯合舉辦「第四十一屆比較文學學會年會暨國際研討會」，大會主題為：新世紀的醫療人文研究。

新世紀的醫療人文研究

醫療人文研究於二十世紀中葉冒現，數十年來在歐美學界日益受到重視，從醫學教育的一環，逐漸成為重要的跨領域研究範疇，為具有高度前瞻性的研究議題，近年來甚至蛻變成為範圍更寬廣的健康人文研究。

在醫學人文研究中，健康和疾病存於在人的身上正如善與惡存於世界 。有關健康和疾病的討論或對疾病本體論的思考，其主要目的在於症狀了解和治療的（不）可能性，因為疾病可以通過一扇門進入或離開 人體。希臘醫學之父希波克拉底（Hippocrates）的著作 指出人的全面性疾病概念﹕自然在人體內外應是和諧平衡的，若是這 種平衡和諧發生紊亂，人就會生病。自培根（Francis Bacon）以來，人類通過克服自然並控制疾病，其目的就是維持 人的正常狀態，但是到了18世紀，透過病理解剖學，新的醫學觀念 可以把某些損傷的器官與症狀的穩定聯繫起來，讓疾病分類學人在解 剖學分析中找到活力，因此病理學自然地成為生理學的延伸。從康吉 萊姆（Georges Canguilhem）的《正常與病態》（The Normal and the Pathological）的醫學哲學和生命科學的架構下重新探 討正常和變態之間的弔詭關係，進而閱讀台灣與其他相關醫學哲學和 生命科學的基本理念。處於人類紀的我們應如何在醫學人文的領域重 新評估被傳統定義下的那些偏離正常狀況的例外狀態是否也是正常社 會的一種常態，例如老化、阿茲海默症、失能和其他疾病等。本次會 議以「醫療人文」為主題，邀請學界針對當前的醫學人文狀況進行反 思，不但賦予文學研究的淑世功能一個新的立足點，開發台灣文學研 究學者與全球學術對話的新渠道，也嘗試開拓新的醫學倫理、 科技和生命等多樣性意涵。本次會議建議子題列舉如下， 但不限於此：

1 醫療政治和生命政治

2 醫療生命書寫：自傳／傳記研究

3 醫療不平等：種族、性別與階級

4 優生學與生殖政治（Eugenics and Reproductive Politics）

5 文學與文化研究中的老年化議題

6 疾病論述

7 （批判性）失能研究

8 身體、醫療與敘事

9 文學與腦神經科學

10 醫療圖像（Graphic Medicine）

11 年齡主義（Ageism）

12 敘事醫學（narrative medicine）

13 能者中心主義（ableism）

14人類紀中的醫學人文

本研討會開放個人與小組（三人）提案發表論文，請於2018年11月15日前以電子郵件提案申請。個人提案者，請準備論文中文摘要 （300-500字），並附上個人簡歷（包括學經歷、現職、簡要 代表著作目錄、通訊地址、電郵信箱）；小組提案者請準備整組提案 說明（500字以內）以及各篇論文摘要（500-800字／篇） ，並檢附所有成員簡歷。提案請寄︰

電郵信箱：claroc100@gmail.com

郵件主旨：投稿第四十一屆比較文學會議

聯絡人：中華民國比較文學學會秘書處

會議籌備小組將於2018年12月10日前通知審查結果。獲接受者須依期限（2019年5月15日）繳交論文全文，且須在會議議程確定之前取得本會會員資格， 相關入會資訊請見學會網站：http://claroc.tw/join 。

重要日期

摘要截止期限：2018年11月15日

摘要接受通知函寄送時間：2018年12月10日以前

全文繳交期限：2019年5月15日

入會期限：2019年5月31日

會議日期：2019年6月22日

The 41st Comparative Literature International Conference

Medical Humanities in the New Millennium

Call for Papers

Originally a part of medical education, medical humanities emerged as an independent research area in the mid-twentieth century, and has since then become a prominent field for interdisciplinary inquiries, with its scope broadened in recent years to include the discussion of health humanities.

In the studies of medical humanities, the presence of health and disease in the human body often serves as a metaphor in which other longstanding sets of polarities, such as light and shadow, good and evil, purity and filth, the soul and the body, the sacred and the profane, are yoked together, with the clear-cut line between these seemingly opposing ideas often obscured. Diseases enter and leave the human body through both visible and invisible bodily orifices, affecting the physical and mental state of a person. Discussions about health and diseases have thus focused mainly on the im/possibility of understanding the symptoms and curing them. Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, advocated a “holistic” concept of disease, arguing that harmony between the nature and the human body was the key to maintaining the health of the latter. Diseases, therefore, happen as the result of imbalance between the internal and external environments, as when any of the four bodily fluids, corresponding to the four seasons and the four elements, dominates the others in a human body. The natural medicine of Hippocrates and his theory of humors were perpetuated into the medieval period in Europe through the works of Galen, which shaped the intimate and inseparable relationship between disease and nature, and by extension, with devils and God, mystic experiences, and religion in medieval ideas of medicine and healing.

This medieval unity between humans and nature gradually gave way to Francis Bacon’s concept of the “mechanical” human body in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. People during this time believed that, by overcoming nature and repairing a damaged organ, they could control diseases and maintain the normal function of the human body. The development of forensic anatomy in the eighteenth century helped to further strengthen the connection between a particular damaged organ and the alleviation of a symptom, bringing new light into disease taxonomy, rendering pathology a natural extension of physiology.

George Canguilhem’s mid-twentieth-century seminal work, Le Normal et la pathologique, examined the paradoxical relationship between the normal and the pathological under the framework of medical philosophy and biology. His philosophical exploration is a firm ground and good starting point for us to reflect on and examine relevant issues in the fields of medicine and biology: In the age of the Anthropocene, how do we redefine or re-evaluate diseases which have been traditionally categorized as exception to or deviation from the norm, such as ageing, Alzheimer’s, disability, and other diseases. Is it possible that these cases of exception and deviation could be seen as a constituent of the normal state of society?

This conference takes medical humanities as its subject, inviting scholars from around the world to reflect on the current state of this research field. In addition to creating a new point of engagement for literary studies to participate in pressing social issues, and a new channel of dialogue with global research for literary scholars in Taiwan, the conference also hopes to explore the multifaceted conjunction of medical ethics, technology, and life.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• medical politics and biopolitics

• medical life writing: autobiography or biography studies

• medical inequality/inequity: races, gender and classes

• eugenics and reproductive politics

• issues of aging in literary works and cultural studies

• discourse of disease

• critical disability studies

• the body, medicine and narratives

• literature and neuroscience

• graphic medicine

• ageism

• narrative medicine

• ableism

• medical humanities in the age of Anthropocene

We encourage individuals to submit abstracts of 300-500 words, including short CVs (name, title, affiliations, selected publications, contact information) to the committee at claroc100@gmail.com by November 15, 2018. For pre-formed panel organizers, please submit a panel proposal of 500 words, and a Chinese abstract of 500-800 words for each paper, with the CVs of all the panel members included.

Electronic acknowledgements of submission will be sent to all submitters upon receipt of the abstract. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by December 10, 2018. Full papers for accepted abstracts should be submitted by May 15, 2019. Presenters are advised to acquire membership of the Association by May 31, 2019.

Important Dates:

•Abstract submission deadline: November 15, 2018

•Abstract acceptance notification: December 10, 2018

•Full paper submission deadline: May 15, 2019

•Conference date: June 22, 2019