Narrative art and the politics of health
edited by Neil Brooks and Sarah Blanchette.
Bok Engelsk 2021
| Medvirkende | Blanchette, Sarah, (editor.)
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| Utgitt | Anthem Press
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Feb 2022).. - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I INSTITUTIONAL NARRATIVES -- Chapter 1 The Laboring Body and the Slave Trade: An Enduring Narrative of Health and Illness -- Introduction -- Two Hundred Leagues from Grenada -- The Surgeon, the Slaving Vessel, the Body -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Projecting Eugenics and Performing Knowledges -- Displaying Eugenics Slides -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Grief Supremacy: On Grievability, Whiteness and Not Being #allinthistogether -- Introduction -- Grief and Loss Literature: A Brief Overview -- White Things -- Site 1: Grief supremacy and the DSM -- Site 2: Grief supremacy and bereavement policy/leaves in Ontario‡ -- Site 3: Grief supremacy, pandemics and #allinthistogether -- What's Next? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Creating Categories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II SOCIOCULTURAL NARRATIVES -- Chapter 5 Mothers Who Know Best: Narratives of Motherhood and Epistemological Anxieties in Vaccine Hesitancy Discourse -- Introduction -- Competing Constructions of Vaccine Hesitancy -- The 2016 Canadian Immunization Conference -- Narratives of Motherhood and Epistemological Anxieties -- Celebrity-mothers as vectors of infectious narratives -- Physician-mothers as trusted narrators -- Narrative Etiologies, Contested Epistemologies and the Politics of Public Health -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 The Cultural Production of Commodifying Under Resourced Bodies -- Introduction -- "Truth" in "Advertising" -- Foundational Narratives of Resources and Health -- Sentimentality and (Social) Media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.. - Chapter 7 When Progressivism Goes Mad: Spiritualism and the Euthanization of the Spiritually Unfit -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 American and Taiwanese Conceptions of Suicide in Emily X. R. Pan's The Astonishing Color of After -- Narratives of Suicide -- Multicultural Critique of Western Model -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III FICTIONAL NARRATIVES -- Chapter 9 Sadness, Madness and Vigor in Jessie Redmon Fauset's The Chinaberry Tree -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Death, Cruelty and Magical Humanism in the Fiction of Terry Pratchett -- The Value of Lives -- 2. Cruelty and Death -- 3. The Rage of Sir Terry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 Mental Illness and Radical Caregiving in Sepia Leaves and Em and the Big Hoom -- Sepia Leaves: Remembering a Fragmented Past through Writing -- Em and the Big Hoom: Narrative Quests and the Search for Meaning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12 Cast-Off Casts: The Orthopedic Imagination in Dear Evan Hansen and Lady Bird -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.. - As countless alterations have taken place in medicine in the twenty-first century, so too have literary artists addressed new understanding of disease and pathology. Dis/ability studies, fat studies, mad studies, end-of-life studies, and critical race studies among other fields have sought to better understand what social factors lead to pathologizing certain conditions while other variations remain 'normalized.' This collection of essays is open to all critical engagements with narratives of health in order to facilitate the messiness of cross-disciplinary collaboration and interdisciplinarity. As scientific advances provide insight into a wide range of well-being issues and help extend life, it is vital that we come to question the very categories of healthy and unhealthy. This collection brings together analyses of cultural productions which probe those categorizations and suggest new psychological and philosophical understandings which will help better apply and guide the knowledge being rapidly developed within the life sciences. The contributors share an interest in addressing who controls answers to the questions of 'how do we define a healthy body and a healthy life?' and 'what are the political forces that influence our definitions of health?' <br><br>The globalization of healthcare protocols has brought many advances but also challenges to traditional understanding of health within many cultures. This collection includes papers that examine narratives of health from all countries, cultures, and communities and is not limited to a North American or Western locus. Further, just as Edward Said problematized 'travelling theory' this book hopes to bring together scholars who look at how literary works also show that medical interventions from a Western perspective need to be challenged when applied to communities whose voices are often not heard or deliberately undermined when those 'treatments' are developed.
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| ISBN | 1-78527-711-1
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