Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine is dedicated to the proposition that reading, writing, art, research, and education can improve the odds of living well despite medical, emotional and mental health issues, as well as the challenges of daily life. We are committed to engendering and facilitating all genres of language and visual arts as “therapies” for the sick, injured, or distressed, their caretakers, families, and medical professionals, as well as the general reader. We welcome all who are dedicated to understanding and helping alleviate human suffering through insight, compassion, and the aesthetic experience of what founder Rex Veeder called “transformation” regardless of the kind of illness, injury, or emotional trauma we all face at sometime in our lives.
Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine aims to provide opportunities for sharing research, artistic work, poetry, pedagogy within fields of medical humanities and narrative medicine, broadly conceived. Thus, this journal is open to submissions across the diversity of human experience.
One of the primary aims of the journal is to bring medical humanities and narrative medicine to patients, survivors, and those with lived experience, as well as caregivers and people in support systems. While aware of and supporting professional medical education, the journal is most concerned with an audience broader than a medical or academic audience. But we do encourage physicians and others in the medical profession to practice narrative as medicine, and to submit their work, especially when it encourages them to be artists – visual, performance, and literary. We encourage survivors and those with lived experience, their caregivers and support systems, and those working in advocacy to share their experiences as well. This act of sharing can foster healing in others through the power of story and poetry and holistic forms.
The scope of the journal is eclectic. Submissions undergo double-anonymous peer review, often both by scholars and by those who have experienced or worked with the topic or genre of the submission. This process ensures both scholarly and literary quality.
All are welcome. Survive & Thrive encourages submissions by writers, artists, photographers, poets, scholars, researchers, medical professionals, caregivers, students, patients, advocates, and survivors. Anyone may submit an original work to be considered for publication in Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or, in the case of translations, obtains permission by the the copyright owner or owners of the original work to submit it to use for consideration along with the translation.
We accept a diverse array of media, genres, and languages. Submissions to Survive and Thrive may include text, video, audio, or image files that express the aims and scope of the Journal. Genres may include research, scholarly, reflective, creative, expressive and related forms of written and multimedia content. The language of the journal is English; parallel text submissions, in English and a second language, are accepted if the translator has obtained permission from the original author (see above)
We only publish new work. Submissions cannot be simultaneously submitted or under consideration elsewhere or have been previously published or forthcoming in another journal or book (print or electronic).
Simultaneous submissions are forbidden. We invest a lot of time in the review process, By making a Submission to Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, the creator is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine.
We are online, so we are open to submission lengths and media other journals might not accept. Because this journal publishes electronically, page limits are not as relevant as they are for print publications. We are happy, therefore, to let authors take advantage of this greater "bandwidth" to include material that they would otherwise have to cut to get into a print journal. This said, authors should exercise discretion with respect to length in relation to quality as well as file size.
If you have concerns about the submission terms for Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, please contact the editors.
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