Revitalizing Health Through Humanities

Foregrounding Unheard Trends

L. Santhosh Kumar, Barnashree Khasnobis, Sreedevi Santhosh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040268902
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Health Humanities in contemporary times has enabled exploration of the unexplored chartered terrains in literary paradigms. Scholars in the field of Humanities and Sciences have been engaging with the praxis of applying concepts from both disciplines revising the approach towards Health Care and Humanities. Due to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methodologies of reading literary texts, they have been reinforcing a paradigm shift from the conventional understanding of narratives in Literature and Health Care. Traditional discursive boundaries between the disciplines of Health and Humanities are collapsing due to a comprehensive and nuanced interpretation of the shared ontological foundation between the two – Humanism. Terminologies like Displacement, Dislocation, and Disjunction unite Health and Humanities and they also make the unknown, known. Health Humanities explores the different multitudes of narration in the literary arena and it represents diverse voices of literature. It also showcases the importance of re-reading a text owing to its autotelic status. The authors who have contributed chapters for this book have meticulously selected diverse texts and contexts, embedded in the dynamism of Health Humanities. This book is an impetus for academicians from the field of Humanities and Sciences who desire to venture into new epistemes towards Health Humanities.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figure
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• About the Editors
• 1. A Study of Health Humanities Through Resistance Literature
• 2. Intersections of Faith and Knowledge: Exploring the Role of Biblical Wisdom in Shaping Health and Well-being
• 3. Reframing Mental Health Narratives: Rethinking the Popular
• 4. Brushing Away Blues: The Role of Art in Enhancing Mental Wellbeing among Early Adults
• 5. Poetry as a Representation of Nature and a Gateway to the Spiritual Realm: A Study of Eco-mysticism in Select works of Kuvempu and Gerard Manley Hopkins
• 6. Disability in Women: A Double Discrimination
• 7. Unveiling Silence, Healing Wounds: A Study on the Traumatic Experience in TD Ramakrishnan's Sugandhi Alias Andal Devanayaki
• 8. Multitude of Experiences during COVID 19: A Study of Zadie Smith's Intimations
• 9. “We Have a Really Strong Will to Survive”: Historical Trauma and First Nations Women in Taylor's God and the Indian
• 10. Visualizing Masculinity: Graphic Medicine's Exploration of Male Autism in ‘Something Different About Dad’
• 11. Music as an Alternate Epistemology of Healing: Contemplating on Selected Narrations of Recovery among Indian Music Practitioners
• 12. Healing Howls: Exploring the Therapeutic Role of Dogs through Canine Narratives
• 13. Articulating Healing among Black Women: A Study of Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place and Gayl Jones’ Corregidora
• 14. Beyond Birth: A Holistic Examination of Postpartum Depression in Adolescent Mothers During the Covid-19 Era
• 15. Investigating Rita Charon’s Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness— An Analytical Study
• 16. An Immersive and Personal Dining Experience at Hawthorne in The Menu: Crafting Culinary Narratives
• 17. Sweet Potatoes: A Nutrient-Rich Powerhouse for Enhancing Athletes’ Performance with Optimized Carbohydrate Consumption— A Review
• 18. Cross-Species Attachment: Analyzing Bruce Cameron’s A Dog’s Journey through the Lens of Attachment Theory
• 19. A Paradigm Shift: Illness as a Unique Gift in Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Tales
• 20. Identity Search Through the Fabricated Culinary Images in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Select Novels: A Study Through Health and Humanities
• 21. Healing for Emotional Illnesses with Reference to Select Poems of Mamang Dai and Linda Hogan: A Comparative Study through Trans-indigenous Psycho Spiritual Perspective on Health and Humanities
• 22. Picturizing the Judgmental World of Infertility: Embracing Empathy
• 23. The Forgotten Frontiers of Medicine on Screen: Deconstructing Life is Beautiful and Shutter Island on a Materialist— Discursive Matrix
• 24. Nature of Evil and its Fragmental Metastasizing of the Human Psyche
• 25. Encountering Disability through Mind Uploading: A Transhumanist Reading of Richard A. Morgan's Altered Carbon
• 26. Indigenous Health and Significant Health Disparities
• 27. Finding Harmony: Exploring Human Bonds and Ecological Ethics in Karen Joy Fowle's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
• 28. From Ancient Grains to Modern Solution: Exploring the Significance of Millets in Reversing Imbalance of Blood Sugar Levels
• 29. Uncaging Anupama in Mahashweta: A Journey to Self-Identity
• 30. Narratives of Trauma and Collective Memory: Exploring Post-Traumatic Resonances in Aatish Taseer's Manto and Anirudh Kala's The Unsafe Asylum: Stories of Partition and Madness
• 31. Shifting Perspectives: Re-imaging Cinematic Representation of Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in Margarita with a Straw and Peranbu
• 32. The Intensity of Pain and the Indomitable Spirit of Women Portrayed in Indian Short Stories
• 33. Panacea of the Centuries: Unearthing Ancient Medicine in Keepers of the Kalachakra by Ashwin Sanghi
• 34. Women's Reproductive Autonomy and its Implications in Feminist Speculative Fiction: A Review
• 35. Pandemic's Curated Spaces: Understanding the ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ in Putham Puthu Kaalai and Putham Puthu Kaalai Vidiyadhaa
• 36. Breaking the Silence: The Significance of Sharing Autobiographical Narratives in Mental Health Discourse
• 37. Life-Narrative of Illness: Exploring Audre Lorde's Cancer Journals through Narrative Medicine, Body Issues, and the Female Identity
• 38. Food Thy Medicine—Neo-Culinary Concepts for Healthy Life in Recent Times: A Qualitative Analysis of Present Food Environment
• 39. Journeying Towards Mental Wellness: Mariam's Evolution Through Maslow's Hierarchy in ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’
• 40. Trauma of Discrimination: The Erasure of the Self, State-Sponsored Ostracization and Silencing of Identities
• 41. Transcendent Inf luence of Compassion in Clinical Encounters
• 42. Reinforcing Mental Health through Body Positivity: Navigating Pictorial Narratives in Early Childhood
• 43. From Pandemonium to Elysium: Mystical Healing Practices in Stephen King's Fairy Tale
• 44. Navigating the Nexus: Analyzing the Applications of Modern and Traditional Healing Practices using TOPSIS Approach
• 45. Shaping the Future of Healthcare in India: The Dual Role of Industrialization and Commercialization
• 46. Occupational Stress and Pregnancy Complications: Insights for Workplace Interventions and Public Health Policies
• 47. Epidemics on Screen: A Study of Health Crisis Representation in the Malayalam Movie ‘Virus’
• 48. Coping with Stress through Usage of Social Media: A Case Study on Varying Stress Levels Among Academicians of Higher Education Institutions in Bangalore, India
• 49. Unveiling Ethical Predicaments of Women through the Thriller Narratives of Yashoda
• 50. Examining the Mental Health of Anxiety among College Students in Bengaluru City Using GAD-7
• 51. Assessing Healing Strategies for Disabilities: A PROMETHEE Analysis of Memory and Cognition Enhancement Modalities
• 52. Evaluation of Healing Practices Across Cultures Using COPRAS Method
• 53. Effect of Gratitude Intervention on Gratitude, Resentment and Appreciation and Life Satisfaction Among Students
• 54. Psychosocial Perspective on Well-being Post Covid-19
• 55. Is there a Time Difference? The Impact of Transposition and Letter Alteration on Reading Speed
• 56. Executive Functioning Levels of Children with Dyspraxia: A Narrative Review
• 57. Self-diagnosis of Depression and Anxiety Among Young Adults
• 58. Exploring the Relationship between Teacher's Self-Concept and Empathy: A Review
• 59. Rape Myth Acceptance among Women from Southern States of India
• 60. Perception of the Elderly about the Influence of Issues in Family on Their Well Being
• 61. Challenges and Risk Factors Associated with Type 1 Diabetes at Work
• 62. Disease Prediction In Agriculture Sector by Leaf Image Analysis and IoT
• 63. Empowering Mental Health Resilience: LLAMA 2-Based AI Model for All Stages
• 64. Covid-19 Lockdown: Post-Perception and Wellbeing Experience
• 65. Friendship Quality and Peer Influence Among Females
• 66. AI Integration Model for Resilience: Enhancing Mental Health and Education
• 67. A Novel Approach Using Machine Learning Algorithms for Analysis and Early Prediction of Depression Tendency among Young Adults
• 68. Intelligent and Operative Prediction System for Understanding Learning Disabilities Using Type—II Fuzzy Logic
• 69. Preprocessing Approaches for Improved Classification of Learning Disabilities in School Children: A Machine Learning Perspective
• 70. Cultural Trauma in Indian Diaspora Literature
• 71. Beyond Stereotypes: Analysis of Violence, 71 Disability and Resilience in the Contemporary Malayalam Movie Uyare