The Health of the Nation / edited by Meldan Tanrisal, Tanfer Emin Tunç ; assistant editor Carsten Hummel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

European Association for American Studies Conference, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Tanrisal, Meldan, editor.

Emin-Tunc, Tanfer, editor.

Hummel, Carsten, editor.

European Association for American Studies.

Series:

European views of the United States ; Volume 6.

European Views of the United States ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health insurance--United States.

Health insurance.

Health insurance claims--United States.

Health insurance claims.

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg, Germany : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited volume, which simultaneously serves as the proceedings for the 2012 European Association for American Studies (EAAS) Conference held at Ege University in Izmir, and hosted by the American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT), provides an overview of the conference theme, 'The Health of the Nation', through an interdisciplinary lens. Comprised of nineteen essays written by emerging as well as established scholars from across Europe and the United States, this collection dissects the health of the (American) nation from numerous historical, cultural, and literary perspectives, and re

Contents:

Table of Contents; P. J. DAVIES, Preface; A List of Publications under the Auspices of theEuropean Association for American Studies; M. TANRISAL AND T. E. TUNÇ, Introduction; I. The History of American Medicine, Illness, and Health Care; M. PRIEWE, Providential Bodies:Interpreting Epidemics in Early America; T. CLARK, "An Indissoluble Union between Moral, Political, andPhysical Happiness": The Body Politic and the Citizen'sHealth in the Creation of the American Republic,1774-1793; R. WILLIAMS, Civil War Relief Agencies, the Union Soldier, andHealing the Union

A. DALLMANN, A "Happiness, an Honor, to do the Slightest Service":African Americans, Nurse Narratives, and the Frame ofAuthoritative WhitenessM. HERRERO-PUERTAS, Prosthetic Affect: Nursing, Miscegenation, and theReconstruction of the US Body Politic; C. BIRKLE, Healing the Nation? Women Doctorsin Nineteenth-Century America; A. A. BABIC, Accessing Benefits, Benefiting the Veteran:Veteran's Benefits, Budget Cuts, and a Strained System; H. SANDERS, Immigrants and the Right to Health in New York CitySince the 1990s: A Case of "Urban Citizenship"

II. Cultural and LiteraryRepresentations of Healthin the American ContextZ. DETSI-DIAMANTI, Staging the Health of the Nation: William Wells Brown'sThe Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858) and theDisease of Slavery; C. SORIN, The Economy of Suffering: Body, Text and Pain in theDiaries of Louisa May Alcott; E. MARINO, Exploring Women's Mental Health in the Writings ofSilas Weir Mitchell; P. COLEMAN, Minds Made by Madness?Enablements of Insanity in Modern American Poetry; E. REDLING, Madman's Drum:Insanity and the Dark Symbolic Other in Lynd Ward'sWoodcut Novel

C. JUNCKER, Hybrid Bodies: Toni Morrison's Unnatural AmericaA. WOHLMANN, Depression and Aging in Jonathan Franzen'sThe Corrections; K. DODOU, American Malady: 9/11, Disease, and the Experience ofTerrorism in Don DeLillo's Falling Man; C. RUEDA-RAMOS, Polluted Land, Polluted Bodies: Mountaintop Removal inAnn Pancake's Strange As This Weather Has Been; H. SCHAEFER, Daring to Care: Body Politics, Social Justice, and theDrama of Health Care in Contemporary American Theater; A. TANRISEVER, Neoliberalism, Body Politics, and Nostalgia:The Aging Hero in Contemporary US Action Film

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 13, 2014).

ISBN:

9783825374426

3825374424