Medicine and ethics in Black women's speculative fiction / Esther L. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Esther L., 1976- author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--African American authors.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--Women authors.

Women, Black, in literature.

Medicine in literature.

Ethics in literature.

Futurism (Literary movement).

Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Science fiction, American.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 190 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"Medicine and Ethics in Black Women's Speculative Fiction engages the complex nexus of black women's health, the fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women, and the problems with the inconsistent application of medical ethics that should concern us all through the lens of black women's literary speculation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction: Eating Salt: Black Women's Health and the Politics of Difference in Medicine1. The Black Girl's Burden: Eugenics, Genomics, and Genocide in Octavia Butler's Fledgling 2. The Unbearable Burden of Culture: Sexual Violence, Women's Power, and Cultural Ethics in Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death3. Organ Donation, Mythic Medicine, and Madness in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring4. "I Mean to Survive": Feminist Disability Theory and Womanist Survival Ethics in Octavia Butler's ParablesConclusion: Blood, Salt, and Tears: Theorizing Difference in the Black Feminist Speculative Tradition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137520609

1137520604

OCLC:

904904693