Keywords for Health Humanities

"Leading scholars introduce key terms, concepts, and debates about the meanings of health and illness in relation to equity and disparity, race, gender, sexuality, and disability, infection and contagion, democracy and repression, and other urgent topics at the core of our pandemic-era world"--

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Sari Altschuler (Editor)

Sari Altschuler is Associate Professor of English and the founding director of Health, Humanities, and Society at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States.

Jonathan M. Metzl (Editor)

Jonathan M. Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. His books include The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, and Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland, which won the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award.

Priscilla Wald (Editor)

Priscilla Wald is R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English at Duke University and author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative and Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sari Altschuler, Sari/ Metzl Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, Priscilla Wald
• Con la collaborazione di: Sari Altschuler (Editore), Jonathan M Metzl (Editore), Jonathan M. Metzl (Editore), Priscilla Wald (Editore)
• Editore: New York University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781479808106
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-0810-6
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Keywords
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Pedagogia sociale, assistenza sociale