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