The Bloomsbury handbook to the medical-environmental humanities / [edited by] Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarveswaran, Vidya, editor.

Rangarajan, Swarnalatha, editor.

Slovic, Scott, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Bloomsbury handbooks

Bloomsbury Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Human ecology.

Culture--Environmental aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Culture.

Medicine and the humanities--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Medicine and the humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Contents:

1. Acknowledgments

2. Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, Introduction

Part 1. Conceptualizing Convergence: Econarratology and Narrative Medicine, Graphic Medicine and Environmental Texts, Virology, Grey Ecology, and Ecopsychology. 3. Eric Morel, "Narrative Knowing and Narrative Practice" ; 4. Mita Banerjee, "Black Lives Matter in Flint, Michigan" ; 5. Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Chinmay Murali, "Graphic Medicine, Ecological Consciousness" ; 6. Maria Whiteman, "Fungi Umwelt" ; 7. Z. Gizem Yilmaz Karahan, "Contagious History" ; 8. Lars Schmeink, "The Grey Ecology of Zombie Fiction" ; 9. Tathagata Som, "Climate Change and Grief" ; 10. Samantha Walton, "Eco-Recovery Memoir and the Medical Environmental Humanities"

Part 2. Environmental Toxicity and Public Health. 11. Sofia Varino, "Pathogenic (Auto)Ecologie" ; 12. Robin Chen-hsing Tsai, "Toward an Ethics of Transcorporeality and Public Health in Taiwanese Ecopathodocumentary" ; 13. Heather Leigh Ramos, "Resisting Slow Violence, Environmental Toxins, and Systemic Racism" ; 14. Kathryn Yalan Chang, "'Reframing Care' in the Age of a Novel Corona Virus" ; 15. Nikoleta Zampaki, "Poetry and Art in the Age of Anthropocene"

Part 3. Landscapes, Bodyscapes, Micro- and Macro-biota. 16. Susanne Lettow, "Health, Disease, and the Body in Ecofeminist Theory" ; 17. Jorge Marcone, "A Gut Feeling" ; 18. Henry Obi Ajumeze, "Performing Damaged Land/Body-scape in the Niger Delta" ; 19. Chia-ju Chang, "Pathological Mimesis and Buddhist Phármakon in the Anthropocene Pandemic" ; 20. Françoise Besson, "Fighting the Spread of Disease through Words" ; 21. Animesh Roy, "From the Clinical to the Ecocultural"

Part 4. Exemplifying Specific Cultural Approaches to the Convergences of Environment, Health, and the Arts. 22. Raghul V. Rajan, "Ayurvedic Vision on Health and Environment" ; 23. Animesh Mohapatra and Jyotirmaya Tripathy, "Health and Hygiene Discourses in the Early Twentieth Century" ; 24. Marcos Colón, "(Un)sustainable Ecology" ; 25. Chinonye Ekwueme-Ugwu, "Nature and Traditional Medicine in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and Things Fall Apart" ; 26. Kiu-wai Chu, "The Tales of Chinese Herbs" ; 27. John Charles Ryan, "'Into the Sap Stream" ; 28. Fazila Derya Agis, "Turkish Classical Songs' Lyrics and Related Idioms for a Literary Therapy for Curing Ecodepression" ; 29. Tess Maginess, "Expressing Concepts of Environment through Concepts of Madness in Some Irish Literature" ; 30. Epilogue: Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our Planet.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350197336

1350197335

9781350197329

1350197327

Publisher Number:

99991411742

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.