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OverviewBringing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Scott Slovic , Swarnalatha Rangarajan , Vidya SarveswaranPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781350197305ISBN 10: 1350197300 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 25 August 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Acknowledgments 2. Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, Introduction Part 1. Conceptualizing Convergence: Econarratology and Narrative Medicine, Graphic Medicine and Environmental Texts, Virology, Grey Ecology, and Ecopsychology 3. Eric Morel, Narrative Knowing and Narrative Practice 4. Mita Banerjee, Black Lives Matter in Flint, Michigan 5. Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Chinmay Murali, Graphic Medicine, Ecological Consciousness 6. Maria Whiteman, Fungi Umwelt 7. Z. Gizem Yilmaz Karahan, Contagious History 8. Lars Schmeink, The Grey Ecology of Zombie Fiction 9. Tathagata Som, Climate Change and Grief 10. Samantha Walton, Eco-Recovery Memoir and the Medical Environmental Humanities Part 2. Environmental Toxicity and Public Health 11. Sofia Varino, Pathogenic (Auto)Ecologies 12. Robin Chen-hsing Tsai, Toward an Ethics of Transcorporeality and Public Health in Taiwanese Ecopathodocumentary 13. Heather Leigh Ramos, Resisting Slow Violence, Environmental Toxins, and Systemic Racism 14. Kathryn Yalan Chang, 'Reframing Care’ in the Age of a Novel Corona Virus 15. Nikoleta Zampaki, Poetry and Art in the Age of Anthropocene Part 3. Varieties of Entanglement: Landscapes, Bodyscapes, Micro- and Macro-biota 16. Susanne Lettow, Health, Disease, and the Body in Ecofeminist Theory 17. Jorge Marcone, A Gut Feeling 18. Henry Obi Ajumeze, Performing Damaged Land/Body-scape in the Niger Delta 19. Chia-ju Chang, Pathological Mimesis and Buddhist Phármakon in the Anthropocene Pandemic 20. Françoise Besson, Fighting the Spread of Disease through Words 21. Animesh Roy, From the Clinical to the Ecocultural Part 4. Exemplifying Specific Cultural Approaches to the Convergences of Environment, Health, and the Arts 22. Raghul V. Rajan, Ayurvedic Vision on Health and Environment 23. Animesh Mohapatra and Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Health and Hygiene Discourses in the Early Twentieth Century 24. Marcos Colón, (Un)sustainable Ecology 25. Chinonye Ekwueme-Ugwu, Nature and Traditional Medicine in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God and Things Fall Apart 26. Kiu-wai Chu, The Tales of Chinese Herbs 27. John Charles Ryan, ‘Into the Sap Stream’ 28. Fazila Derya Agis, Turkish Classical Songs’ Lyrics and Related Idioms for a Literary Therapy for Curing Ecodepression 29. Tess Maginess, Expressing Concepts of Environment through Concepts of Madness in Some Irish Literature 30. Epilogue: Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our Planet Scott Slovic, You Don’t Know What You Got ‘Til It’s Gone Swarnalatha Rangarajan, The Gasping Turtle and Other Hypoxia Narratives: Prana in a Threatened World Vidya Sarveswaran, Dying to BreatheReviewsThis collection offers a crucial intervention at an urgent time. The pandemic has driven home the inseparability of human health and environmental health. The first to bring together the medical and environmental humanities in a global conversation, this book outlines how we might better align the health of the planet with the health of human minds and bodies. * Sarah Jaquette Ray, Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies, Humboldt State University, USA, and author of 'A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet' * Located at a crucial juncture in the precarious age when 'health' - of individuals, communities and the planet - is at risk, this volume defines the future of academic work in environmental and medical-health humanities. Mapping debates and methodologies across literary-cultural studies, this is an indispensable exploration as to how and why all lives matter. -- Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad India, author of 'Bhopal's Ecological Gothic' and 'Ecoprecarity' This collection offers a crucial intervention at an urgent time. The pandemic has driven home the inseparability of human health and environmental health. The first to bring together the medical and environmental humanities in a global conversation, this book outlines how we might better align the health of the planet with the health of human minds and bodies. -- Sarah Jaquette Ray, Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies, Humboldt State University, USA, and author of 'A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet' Located at a crucial juncture in the precarious age when 'health' - of individuals, communities and the planet - is at risk, this volume defines the future of academic work in environmental and medical-health humanities. Mapping debates and methodologies across literary-cultural studies, this is an indispensable exploration as to how and why all lives matter. -- Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad India, author of 'Bhopal's Ecological Gothic' and 'Ecoprecarity' Together, the dozens of fascinating and insightful essays included in Slovic, Rangarajan, and Sarveswaran's Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities do much more than explore convergences between two closely related yet seldom intersecting fields. They additionally chart timely and welcome paths for news ways of engaging with global challenges - including pandemics and climate disruption - that are becoming only more severe. -- Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA, author of 'Ecoambiguity' and 'Global Healing' Author InformationScott Slovic is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities and has been teaching at the University of Idaho, USA, since 2012—previously he was a professor at Texas State University and the University of Nevada, Reno. He served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 he has edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment for ASLE and Oxford University Press. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-seven books, including, most recently, The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran). His forthcoming books include Nature in Literary Studies (coedited with Peter Remien) for Cambridge University Press’s Critical Concepts Series. He coedits Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Routledge Environmental Humanities with Joni Adamson and Yuki Masami. Swarnalatha Rangarajan is Associate Professor of English and has been teaching at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras since 2010. Previously, she was a Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University and a Charles Wallace Fellow at Cambridge University. She has coedited such books as Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (2014) and Ecocriticism of the Global South (2015) (with Scott Slovic and Vidya Sarveswaran) and is the author of the novel Final Instructions (2015). She served as the founding editor of The Indian Journal of Ecocriticism and has guest-edited two special issues on Indian ecosophy for The Trumpeter. Her monograph Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Solutions appeared in 2018. Vidya Sarveswaran is Professor of English and has been teaching at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur since 2012. Before that she taught for thirteen years at Ethiraj College for Women in Chennai. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2008-09, and in 2016 she was a Rachel Carson Fellow at the University of Munich. As mentioned above, she coedited Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development, Ecocriticism of the Global South, and The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication with Scott Slovic and Swarnalatha Rangarajan. She is also a documentary filmmaker and has recently been completing a film that documents ecological narratives in Rajasthan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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