Research into medical metaphors took up speed when metaphors came to be understood as a component of everyday language and communication, and not as a poetic device restricted to literature (Lakoff/Johnson 1980). It explores metaphors as epistemic and experiential meeting places between medical and scientific information and individual lifeworlds. My research project analyzes the role of metaphors in North-American fictional narratives. Laura Schnieder – Experimental Subjects.Julia Reichenpfader – Opened Female Bodies.Justus Pötzsch – Transcendings of homo sapiens.Bernd Marquardt – Irregular Birth Passages.Autobiographische Illness Narratives im Kontext von HIV/AIDS

Oliver Kuchenbuch – Epigenetics – Hybridizing Medicine and Optimization.

Anastassija Kostan – Concepts of “matter” in new materialist feminisms.Anna Sophie Herrmann – Complex Childhood Trauma.Alena Kunkel – Expertise in Forensic Psychiatry.Davina Höll – Politics and Poetics of Cholera.Madeleine Böckers – Molecular Mechanism of Estrogenic Xenobiotica.Dennis Wilke – Situational illness experiences of children and adolescents with cancer.Eine Untersuchung der obligatorischen Passagenpunkte des Verfahrens Tamara Schwertel – Die Situation der Tiefe Hirnstimulation.Eric Schwegler – Neglected Tropical Diseases.Matteo Rosellini – Molecular Mechanisms of Intoxication by Plastic Compounds on Liver Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases.

Victoria Paul – On the Concept of Chronic Illness and its Ethical Implications Using the Example of Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD).

Damla Özkan – Authorship and Sovereignty in Mental Illness Narratives.

Jonas Müller – A Narrative Perspective on Climate Change and Ontological Stability.

Sonja Kleinod – Life in the Anthropocene.

Fabian Hennig – Transformations of Masculinity and Politics of Contraception.

Jasmin Glock – Diseases and Disabilities in North-American Gothic Fiction.

Fiona Forth – Communicating Uncertainty to Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Roxana Damiescu – Natural Product-based Approaches to Fight the Opioid Crisis.

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