Wednesday 2 July 2008

Academic hoaxes of our time # 2

...terrifyingly true.

Reading Holby City, CALL FOR PAPERS

The editors of this forthcoming volume of essays from Palgrave Macmillan welcome submissions on any of the broadly designated themes listed below:


  • Holby City at the crosscroads of utopia and dystopia
  • Holby's physical relationships: masked polysexuality
  • The surgical mask as subculture identity for medics
  • Foucaultian perspectives on the architecture of Holby Central
  • The apprenticeship of corporeality: inscribing in the flesh
  • The patient as carcereal flea
  • Holby to the power of three: performativity, unveiling and the medical gaze
  • Disciplinary continuum: From Holby to Holby Blue

Submissions are not limited to the above. All articles should be 5,000 words maximum, including notes and bibliography.

Please address all correspondence to Dr. Smite Corpuscle, annex 359, University of Antibodies, Police/Corps/Esprit Interface Associates LTD, PO Box 21345, UK. email: smite.corpuscle@ant.ac.uk

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