Call for Papers and Guidelines for Contributors

Literature and Medicine is a scholarly, interdisciplinary journal devoted to exploring connections between literary and medical knowledge and understanding. Issues of disease, illness, health, medical science, trauma, and the body are examined through literary, medical, and cultural texts. Our readership includes a wide variety of healthcare professionals as well as scholars of literature, history, writing, narrative, rhetoric, trauma, culture, and critical theory.

Literature and Medicine is published semiannually. Most issues are general with no specific theme. Occasional thematic issues are announced in calls for papers in the back of the journal and on the journal website (http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/literature_and_medicine/guidelines.html). In addition to thematic issues, Literature and Medicine editors will consider "clusters" of essays devoted to a particular topic or written on a specific occasion. Submissions on any aspect of literature and medicine will be considered, but the journal rarely publishes short notes, personal essays, or creative writing in general issues. Authors are strongly advised to look carefully at past issues of the journal (available on the journal website) before submitting their work. Manuscripts should be between 4,000 and 7,000 words in length, approximately twenty-five to thirty-five pages inclusive of double-spaced notes.

Literature and Medicine is a peer-reviewed journal. Authors' names should appear only on a cover sheet, and any identifiers in the text should be masked so manuscripts can be reviewed anonymously. Literature and Medicine reviews only unpublished manuscripts that are not simultaneously under review for publication elsewhere. Please supply an abstract of 100 or fewer words. The editors prefer that manuscripts be submitted electronically either as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments to an email addressed to cmanderson@ualr.edu with the subject line "A Literature and Medicine Submission" or online at http://lam.expressacademic.org. Hard copy manuscripts are also acceptable and should be submitted in triplicate. All submissions should have text, end notes, and bibliography double-spaced and prepared according to guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style, current edition.

Correspondence should be sent to:

Charles M. Anderson, Executive Editor
Literature and Medicine
Division of Medical Humanities
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4301 W. Markham, Slot 646
Little Rock, AR 72205
Email: cmanderson@ualr.edu