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Narrative art and the politics of health / edited by Neil Brooks and Sarah Blanchette.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health in literature.
- Health--Political aspects.
- Health.
- Health in art.
- Narrative art--Health aspects.
- Narrative art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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
- Two Hundred Leagues from Grenada
- The Surgeon, the Slaving Vessel, the Body
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2 Projecting Eugenics and Performing Knowledges
- Displaying Eugenics Slides
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3 Grief Supremacy: On Grievability, Whiteness and Not Being #allinthistogether
- 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?
- Chapter 4 Creating Categories
- 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
- Chapter 6 The Cultural Production of Commodifying Under Resourced Bodies
- "Truth" in "Advertising"
- Foundational Narratives of Resources and Health
- Sentimentality and (Social) Media
- Notes
- 2. Cruelty and Death
- 3. The Rage of Sir Terry
- 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
- Chapter 12 Cast-Off Casts: The Orthopedic Imagination in Dear Evan Hansen and Lady Bird
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 8, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brooks, Neil Narrative Art and the Politics of Health
- ISBN:
- 9781785277122
- 178527712X
- 9781785277115
- 1785277111
- Publisher Number:
- 40030605288
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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