Global healing : literature, advocacy, care / by Karen Laura Thornber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thornber, Karen Laura, author.

Series:

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 92.

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; Volume 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine in literature.

Literature and medicine.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 693 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing. The three parts of this book discuss writings from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania that implore societies to shatter the devastating social stigmas which prevent billions from accessing effective care; to increase the availability of quality person-focused healthcare; and to prioritize partnerships that facilitate healing and enable wellbeing for both patients and loved ones. Thornber’s Global Healing remaps the contours of comparative literature, world literature, the medical humanities, and the health humanities.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction 1 Comparative literature, world literature, global literature – 2 Literature and medicine, medical and health humanities – 3 The chapters

Part 1: Shattering stigmas

Introduction: Exposing stigmas 1 Legacies of leprosy 1 Leprosy, Christianity, Europe – 2 Imperialism, segregation, Hawai‘i, Nigeria – 3 Leprosy and East Asia – 4 Propagating prejudices – 5 Countering violence

2 AIDS, national fear, literary production 1 HIV / AIDS – The global epidemic – 2 South Africa – Silence, secrets, accusations – 3 Tanzania and Kenya – Denials, allegations, vulnerability – 4 China – Innocence, guilt, social Control – 5 The United States – Indictments, activism, understanding

3 AIDS Stigmas, fear, care – 1 Deterring advocacy, activism, and education – 2 Deferring responsibility – 3 Obstructing timely testing and medical treatment – 4 Forestalling support – 5 Destroying landscapes

Entr’acte: confronting the stigmas of alzheimer’s

Part 2: Humanizing healthcare

Introduction: Person-focused care – Advocacy, respect, compassion, empathy, healing 1 Calls for patient-centered care

2 Person-focused care – Empathy, cultural humility, compassion, healing

3 Challenges to person-focused care – 4 Narrative interventions

4 Contrasts in care 1 Exposing disparities – 2 Asserting humanity – 3 Voicing despair – 4 Articulating change – 5 Speaking for, not with – 1 Stories dismissed

2 Stories without words

3 Stories without memories

4 Differences denied

6 Medically treating, not healing

1 Transforming medicine – Women physicians and healing – 2 Saving without healing – 3 Temporarily curing without healing – 4 Accentuating violence, impeding healing – 7 Interventions in Dying – 1 Easing death – 2 Conundrums of cure

Part 3: Prioritizing partnerships

Introduction: Healing partnerships 8 Promoting partnerships in living, sharing care – 1 Integrating support – Patients, loved ones, health professionals, societies

2 Truth telling – Patients, loved ones, health professionals – 3 Eschewing medical treatment – Patients, loved ones – 4 All about elephants – 9 Providing partnerships in dying, easing death

1Partnerships interrupted – 2 Partnerships criminalized –3 Partnerships redefined – Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

90-04-42018-5

9789004420182 (electronic book)

OCLC:

1141039074

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004420182 DOI