Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies Topos announces the call for papers for the new issue.

The topic of the issue:

SHIFTING THE BORDERS: TRANSFORMATIONS OF SUBJECTS, BODIES, AND PRACTICES IN THE ERA OF NEW MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES

We invite papers that address the changes of human subjects – their bodies and selfhood, the modes of private and public interaction – in the light of various technological and institutional innovations in medicine occurred over the past few decades. The researches are encouraged to pay particular attention to integration and dissemination of the latest biotechnologies within the medical sector (locally and globally) and to the effects they have on existential experience, moral judgement and necessity of legal regulation. Similarly, we are interested in the changes of patients’ awareness, and also in the self-reflection of medical community in regard to gradual liberalization of public life and cultural globalization in the post-Soviet countries.

The deadline for submissions is August 20, 2019.