[ATTW-L] Reminder: CFP on Contextualizing Care in Cultures (Present Tense Special Issue)

[Kirk St.Amant]

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A quick reminder proposals for the Present Tense special issue on
"Contextualizing Care in Cultures" are due in one week! (See CFP below.)

*CFP: **Special Issue of Present Tense*

Contextualizing Care in Cultures: Perspectives on Cross-Cultural and
International Health and Medical Communication



*Issue Editors:*

Kirk St.Amant, Louisiana Tech University

Elizabeth L. Angeli, Marquette University



*Proposals Due: *22 May 2018



*Publication Date: *Spring/Summer 2019 (tentative)



*Overview:*

The interconnected nature of modern society means the exchange of health
and medical communication often takes place in a range of international and
local contexts. The objective of such interactions is to offer effective
care – or how to engage in practices designed to maintain or return
individuals to a particular level of health and wellness. These exchanges,
however, must often traverse a range of cultural, linguistic, and
geopolitical contexts to transfer health and medical information to
multiple audiences across contexts including to

·         The healthcare professionals who provide care

·         The public health and health literacy educators who educate
others on care and caregiving

·         The patients and populations who receive or must participate in
such care

To this end, care-related information must be contextualized – or adapted
to address the factors affecting how care is perceived and administered in
different international and intercultural contexts. This special issue
focuses on identifying, understanding, and addressing such dynamics.



*Objective:*

The purpose of this special issue is to present ideas that health and
medical communicators can use to contextualize care-related information for
different cultural and national settings. The idea is to identify factors
that can affect the communication of care-related information across
cultures in different international, regional, and local contexts as well as
 present frameworks and/or approaches for engaging in such
contextualization of care-related content and communication.



The guest editors of this special issue invite proposals for shorter
entries (i.e., 2,500 words – not including references) that provide ideas
on how health and medical communicators might approach or address the
process of contextualizing care-related communication and content for
different cultures.



Because this special issue will be published with the online journal
*Present Tense*, submissions can include entries done in a variety of
media. For this reason, we welcome proposals for entries that would be in
video, audio, or other non-print formats.



*Topics:*

Topics of interest for this special issue include (but are not limited to)
those that address the following questions:



-- What cultural, linguistic, and geopolitical factors do health and
medical communicators need to consider to contextualize care-related
content for different cultural and national audiences?



-- What strategies can health and medical communicators use to design
care-related materials for the contexts in which individuals from other
cultures or in other nations use them?



-- How should health and medical communicators work with translators and
localizers to develop care-related materials that can easily be
contextualized for other cultures?



-- What factors should health and medical communicators consider when
researching the contextualization of care-related content for audiences
from other cultures?



-- What steps should health and medical communicators take to collaborate
with individuals in other cultures to contextualize materials for audiences
from different cultures and nations?



-- What strategies can health and medical communicators use to distribute
care-related information via online or social media to users from other
cultures or in other nations?



--How can we train health and medical communicators and practitioners to
communicate effectively with patients from other cultures or in other
nations?



Through examining questions such as these, prospective authors can advance
our understanding of the dynamics affecting health and medical
communication in a variety of international and intercultural contexts.



*Submissions:*

Individuals should submit a 250-300 word proposal that notes

-- The submitter’s name and contact email

-- The title of the proposed entry

-- The overall topic/focus of the proposed article

-- The approach or method the proposed article will take to examine this
overall topic

-- The connection of the focus and approach/method to the theme of this
special issue

-- The methods readers can use to apply ideas to health and medical
communication practices

-- If the proposed piece uses multimedia instead of/in addition to written
text, include a description of the media and how it strengthens the piece



In citing sources in proposals, follow MLA 8th ed. citation style.



Proposals should be submitted as a .doc file emailed to the two guest
editors at kirk.stamant at gmail.com and elizabeth.angeli at marquette.edu; the
subject line of the related message should read “Present Tense Special
Issue Proposal.”



*Questions:*

Questions on this special issue or on prospective topics and approaches for
submissions should be sent to the guest editors, Kirk St.Amant and
Elizabeth Angeli at both kirk.stamant at gmail.com and

 elizabeth.angeli at marquette.edu
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