Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions.
Keywords for Health Humanities provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for the burgeoning field of health humanities and, more broadly, for the study of medicine and health. Sixty-five entries by leading international scholars examine current practices, ideas, histories, and debates around health and illness, revealing the social, cultural, and political factors that structure health conditions and shape health outcomes.
Presenting possibilities for health justice and social change, this volume exposes readersāfrom curious beginners to cultural analysts, from medical students to health care practitioners of all fieldsāto lively debates about the complexities of health and illness and their ethical and political implications. A study of the vocabulary that comprises and shapes a broad understanding of health and the practices of healthcare, Keywords for Health Humanities guides readers toward ways to communicate accurately and effectively while engaging in creative analytical thinking about health and healthcare in an increasingly complex worldāone in which seemingly straightforward beliefs and decisions about individual and communal health represent increasingly contested terrain.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Sari Altschuler, JonathanĀ M. Metzl, and Priscilla Wald
- 1. Access: Todd Carmody
- 2. Aging: Erin Gentry Lamb
- 3. Anxiety: JustineĀ S. Murison
- 4. Bioethics: LisaĀ M. Lee
- 5. Care: Rachel Adams
- 6. Carrier: Lisa Lynch
- 7. Chronic: Ed Cohen
- 8. Cognition: Deborah Jenson
- 9. Colonialism: Pratik Chakrabarti
- 10. Compassion: Lisa Diedrich
- 11. Contagion: Annika Mann
- 12. Creativity: Michael Barthman and Jay Baruch
- 13. Data: Kirsten Ostherr
- 14. Death: Maura Spiegel
- 15. Diagnosis: Martha Lincoln
- 16. Disability: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
- 17. Disaster: Martin Halliwell
- 18. Disease: RobertĀ A. Aronowitz
- 19. Drug: Anne Pollock
- 20. Emotion: Kathleen Woodward
- 21. Empathy: JaneĀ F. Thrailkill
- 22. Environment: DavidĀ N. Pellow
- 23. Epidemic: Christos Lynteris
- 24. Evidence: PamelaĀ K. Gilbert
- 25. Experiment: Helen Tilley
- 26. Gender: Gwen DāArcangelis
- 27. Genetic: Sandra Soo-Jin Lee
- 28. Global Health: Robert Peckham
- 29. Harm: TodĀ S. Chambers
- 30. History: DavidĀ S. Jones
- 31. Human Rights: Jaymelee Kim
- 32. Humanities: Sari Altschuler
- 33. Humanity: Samuel Dubal
- 34. Immunity: Cristobal Silva
- 35. Indigeneity: Michele Marie Desmarais and Regina Emily Idoate
- 36. Life: MatthewĀ A. Taylor
- 37. Medicine: Sayantani DasGupta
- 38. Memory: James Chappel
- 39. Microbe: Kym Weed
- 40. Narrative: Rita Charon
- 41. Natural: Corinna Treitel
- 42. Neurodiversity: Ralph James Savarese
- 43. Normal: Peter Cryle and Elizabeth Stephens
- 44. Observation: AlexaĀ R. Miller
- 45. Pain: Catherine Belling
- 46. Pathological: Michael Blackie
- 47. Patient: Nancy Tomes
- 48. Pollution: Sara Jensen Carr
- 49. Poverty: PercyĀ C. Hintzen
- 50. Precision: Kathryn Tabb
- 51. Psychosis: Angela Woods
- 52. Race: Rana Hogarth
- 53. Reproduction: Aziza Ahmed
- 54. Risk: Amy Boesky
- 55. Sense: Erica Fretwell
- 56. Sex: RenƩ Esparza
- 57. Sleep: Benjamin Reiss
- 58. Stigma: AllanĀ M. Brandt
- 59. Stress: David Cantor
- 60. Technology: John Basl and Ronald Sandler
- 61. Toxic: Heather Houser
- 62. Trauma: DeborahĀ F. Weinstein
- 63. Treatment: Keir Waddington and Martin Willis
- 64. Virus: John Lwanda
- 65. Wound: Harris Solomon
- References
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
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