The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities
eBook - ePub

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities

  1. 424 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities

About this book


Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book: · Represents the first collection to bring the environmental humanities and medical humanities into conversation in a systematic way
· Features contributions from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives including literary studies, environmental ethics and philosophy, cultural history and sociology
· Adopts a truly global approach, examining contexts including, but not limited to, North America, the UK, Africa, Latin America, South Asia, Turkey and East Asia
· Touches on issues and approaches such as narrative medicine, ecoprecarity, toxicity, mental health, and contaminated environments. Showcasing and surveying a rich spectrum of issues and methodologies, this book looks not only at where research currently is at the intersection of these two important fields, but also at where it is going.

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Yes, you can access The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities by Scott Slovic,Swarnalatha Rangarajan,Vidya Sarveswaran in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & History of Contemporary Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Chapter One Introduction: Toward a Medical-Environmental Humanities. Why Now?
  7. Part One Conceptualizing Convergence: Econarratology and Narrative Medicine, Graphic Medicine and Environmental Texts, Virology, Grey Ecology, and Ecopsychology
  8. Part Two Environmental Toxicity and Public Health
  9. Part Three Varieties of Entanglement: Landscapes, Bodyscapes, Micro- and Macro-Biota
  10. Part Four Exemplifying Specific Cultural Approaches to the Convergences of Environment, Health, and the Arts
  11. List of Contributors
  12. Index
  13. Copyright Page