Global Healing

Literature, Advocacy, Care
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42017-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 92, 693 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1172 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

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In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing.

The three parts of this book discuss writings from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania that implore societies to shatter the devastating social stigmas which prevent billions from accessing effective care; to increase the availability of quality person-focused healthcare; and to prioritize partnerships that facilitate healing and enable wellbeing for both patients and loved ones.

Thornber’s Global Healing remaps the contours of comparative literature, world literature, the medical humanities, and the health humanities.

Watch a video interview with Thornber by the Mahindra Humanities Center, part of their conversations on Covid-19.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Thornber, Karen Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1Comparative Literature, World Literature, Global Literature

2Literature and Medicine, Medical and Health Humanities

3The Chapters

Part 1: Shattering Stigmas

Introduction: Exposing Stigmas
1Legacies of Leprosy
1Leprosy, Christianity, Europe

2Imperialism, Segregation, Hawai‘i, Nigeria

3Leprosy and East Asia

4Propagating Prejudices

5Countering Violence

5.1Leprosy Narratives and Hawai‘i

5.2Japanese and Korean Stories of Leprosy

5.3Paradise Reconsidered in Yi Ch’ongjun’s Your Paradise

5.4Betrayal and the Urdu Translation of Your Paradise

5.5Leprosaria as Refuge – Ola Rotimi’s Hopes of the Living Dead

2AIDS, National Fear, Literary Production
1HIV/AIDS – The Global Epidemic

2South Africa – Silence, Secrets, Accusations

3Tanzania and Kenya – Denials, Allegations, Vulnerability

4China – Innocence, Guilt, Social Control

5The United States – Indictments, Activism, Understanding

3AIDSStigmas, Fear, Care

1Deterring Advocacy, Activism, and Education

2Deferring Responsibility

3Obstructing Timely Testing and Medical Treatment

4Forestalling Support

5Destroying Landscapes

Entr’acte: Confronting the Stigmas of Alzheimer’s

Part 2: Humanizing Healthcare

Introduction: Person-Focused Care – Advocacy, Respect, Compassion, Empathy, Healing
1Calls for Patient-Centered Care

2Person-Focused Care – Empathy, Cultural Humility, Compassion, Healing

3Challenges to Person-Focused Care

4Narrative Interventions

4Contrasts in Care
1Exposing Disparities

2Asserting Humanity

3Voicing Despair

4Articulating Change

5Speaking For, Not With

1Stories Dismissed

2Stories without Words

3Stories without Memories

4Differences Denied

6 Medically Treating, Not Healing

1Transforming Medicine – Women Physicians and Healing

2Saving without Healing

3Temporarily Curing without Healing

4Accentuating Violence, Impeding Healing

7Interventions in Dying

1Easing Death

1.1On the Right to Decline Death-Prolonging Care

1.2On the Right to Life-Ending Care

2Conundrums of Cure

2.1Sacrifices in Discovering and Developing Cures

2.2The Paradoxical Precariousness of Cure

Part 3: Prioritizing Partnerships

Introduction: Healing Partnerships
8Promoting Partnerships in Living, Sharing Care

1Integrating Support – Patients, Loved Ones, Health Professionals, Societies

2Truth Telling – Patients, Loved Ones, Health Professionals

3Eschewing Medical Treatment – Patients, Loved Ones

4All about Elephants

9Providing Partnerships in Dying, Easing Death

1Partnerships Interrupted

2Partnerships Criminalized

3Partnerships Redefined

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Laura Thornber, Ph.D. (2006), Harvard, is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. Her publications include Empire of Texts in Motion (2009), Ecoambiguity (2012), several (co)edited volumes, translations, and more than 70 articles/chapters.