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Author:   Stephanie M. Hilger (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350296190

ISBN 10:   1350296198
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   25 June 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

Foreword Stefani Engelstein Boundaries and Interdisciplines: Where Health Humanities Meets Literature & Science in German Studies Introduction Stephanie M. Hilger Intersections: Health Humanities and German Studies PART I: Medical Readings/Reading Medicine Katharina Fürholzer “Verschlungen sitze ich / neben der Sprache:“ Aphasic Poetry between Medicine and Metaphor Anita Wohlmann and Katharina Bahlmann The Totality Trap of Reading Illness: Unica Zürn’s The House of Illnesses Amanda Sheffer Dr. Max Liebermann’s Vienna: Diagnosis, Gender, and Criminality in Historical Crime Fiction Madalina Meirosu Teaching “Outbreak Narratives” during the COVID Pandemic PART II: Graphic Medicine Marina Rauchenbacher Comics from the German-Language Realm and Health Humanities: An Overview Katja Herges Disability and Embodiment in Contemporary German Comics Priscilla Layne Drawing on Pain: Depicting Disability and Trauma in Mikael Ross’ Graphic Novel Der Umfall Elizabeth Nijdam “Thinking in Comics:” Representing Autism Spectrum Disorder in Autobiographical Graphic Narrative PART III: Disability Anne Waldschmidt Disability = Behinderung? The Conceptual History of a Social Category in Germany from a Disability Studies Perspective Heidi Hausse A New View of an Old Prosthesis: Creating a Digital 3D Model of a Sixteenth-Century Iron Hand Heike Bartel Rewriting Illness from the Turkish German Margins: Eating Disorders in Narratives by Renan Demirkan and Yade Yasemin Önder Alec Cattell Teaching at the Intersection of German Studies and Disability Studies PART IV: Race Gabi Kathöfer Work, Disability, Race: Toward an Intersectional, “Unsettling” Analysis of German Settler Colonialism Julia Roos The Post-1945 Eugenics Consensus and the Persecution of Germans of Color in the Third Reich: A Legal Case Study Heikki Lempa Tea, Race, and Ethnicity: Medical Knowledge of the Others in the German Lands, 1700-1830 PART V: Gender Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio Suspicious Body Parts and Endangered Femininity: Western Medical Knowledge about Female Genitalia and Practices of Genital Cutting in the Early Modern Age Benjamin R. Davis Establishing a New Order?: Queer Performativity, Embodied Precarity, and the Pathologization of the Transgressive Body in Melusine (1456) and Fortunatus (1509) Joela Jacobs and Bastian Lasse Making Intersex Identity ILLegible: Oskar Panizza’s “Ein scandalöser Fall” Necia Chronister Reading as a Trans-Corporeal Act PART VI: Trauma Eleoma Bodammer Death by Despair: Destroying Health in Schiller’s Die Räuber Allison Schmidt The Bodies Kept the Score: Two Case Studies on Health and Violence after the Great War Anke Pinkert Refracting War Violence: Psychiatric Discourse in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the Early East German State PART VII: Animals and the Environment Brian McInnis The Animals among Humankind: Fables of Reason in Johann August Unzer's Medical Weekly Der Arzt Nicole Thesz Dangerous Bodies: Witches in German Fairy Tales and the Literary Imagination Davina Höll “Vollkommene Organismen:” The Beginnings of a Literary Imagination of the Microbiome

Reviews

This book is as innovative as promised and will start to fill a yawning chasm of interest. The time for health humanities in German Studies is now. * Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, Assistant Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA *

""This book is as innovative as promised and will start to fill a yawning chasm of interest. The time for health humanities in German Studies is now."" --Kristen Ann Ehrenberger, Assistant Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA

Author Information

Stephanie M. Hilger is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), where she also holds an appointment in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine.

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