A. Mark Clarfield
ABSTRACT
How to publish Medical Humanities in Geriatrics and Gerontology journals
A. Mark Clarfield
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Desmond O'Neill
Trinity College Dublin
Regina Roller-Wirnsberger
Medical University of Graz
The world is getting older and the phenomenon of population ageing is found in almost countries: low-, middle-, and high-income. Scholarship offering perspectives on age and ageing from the humanities, arts and cultural gerontology has greatly enriched our understanding of ageing and the life course and is a vibrant area for peer-reviewed publishing from many disciplines. Over the past decade there has been a welcome growth in the focus in journals on humanities, arts and ageing. This session will bring together the perspective of two editors responsible for humanities, arts and cultural gerontology in their respective journals to outline the vision, philosophy, criteria and opportunities for publishing in their journal. The speakers and journals are:
The session will deal with how best to submit articles to such columns with practical advice offered. It will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines within and associated to gerontology and the humanities, and should be of particular interest to students, faculty and researchers wishing to learn how to publish in the most appropriate journals in humanities and aging.
BIO
A. Mark Clarfield MD FRCPC is the section editor for Ars Longa (Medical Humanities) and Old Lives Tales columns of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He is Professor (emeritus) of Geriatric Medicine and the former director of the Medical School for International Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-sheva, Israel and an adjunct Professor at McGill University in Montréal, Canada