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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 647–650.
Published: 01 September 2018
...-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature . By Andrea Stone . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2016 . xiv, 238 pp. Cloth , $79.95 . Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death . By Courtney R. Baker . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Jess Libow Abstract This essay traces the visual cultures that emerged around Civil War soldiers’ pain and argues that the method of portraiture has much to offer the field of health humanities. It begins by tracing efforts to capture Civil War soldiers’ pain in both popular and clinical media...
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Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 623–650.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of industrial capitalism. Despite seemingly regressive views of women’s place in the home and society, Beecher’s writings on domesticity during the historic transition to fossil fuels speak to our own moment of climate and public health crises. To reassess Beecher in light of the environmental humanities...
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Who Counts? Old Age in COVID Times
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 745–757.
Published: 01 December 2020
... onto health, the concept “portrays the vulnerable person as passively susceptible to the threat” (Schroder-Butterfill and Marianti 2006 : 10) and obscures the inequity of the distribution of risks. A health humanities approach, by contrast, considers structural inequalities: how “vulnerability...
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Health Care Fictions: The Business of Medicine and Modern US Literature
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 629–654.
Published: 01 December 2021
... racial dimensions of health care inequity. The universality of the wish that none should die is similar to Carl’s idea in The Interne that “humanity [is] ill,” as well as Holden’s comment in The Healer that “from the city hospital to the comfortable homes of Suburbia humanity is the same—under...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 141–162.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... The revised definition opens the door to the kinds of knowing the humanities can offer health and healthcare. 14 The finalized new definition not only includes notes about the “biological, psychological, and social” dimensions of pain and the relationship between “life experience” and understanding of pain...
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Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Byrnes ( 2020 : 16) on the contradictions of the human/animal divide revealed by swine flu: “while epidemiologists and public health officials continue to publicize the ‘pathological state of hybridity’ that can result from some kinds of human-animal intimacy, genetic engineers are now actively trying...
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Public Humanities in the Reconstructed University
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 781–790.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Newfield ( 2016 : 144) calls the neoliberal university’s injunction to “compete all the time,” this model may also promote the mental health and well-being of a uniquely vulnerable cohort of students emerging from an unexpected, and in some cases traumatic, period of disconnection from humans beyond...
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Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
... . 2017 . Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture . New York : New York Univ. Press . Savarese Ralph James . 2023 . “ Neurodiversity .” In Keywords for Health Humanities , edited by Altschuler Sari , Metzl Jonathan M. , and Wald Priscilla...
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An Ethics Debate for the Ages: American Individualism and the Dilemma of the Healthy Carrier
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 737–743.
Published: 01 December 2020
... Dan . 2010 . “ Fixing the Communications Failure .” Nature 463 : 296 – 97 . Leavitt Judith Walzer . 1996 . Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health . Boston : Beacon . Nixon Kari . 2020 . Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human...
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How Do We See COVID-19? Visual Iconographies of Racial Contagion
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... no resemblance to the human body suffering from the disease it causes, making these images appear scientifically neutral, objective, and impartial (Daston and Galison 1992 ). This perspective gives rise to the truism of global health campaigns that “disease knows no boundaries” (CDC 2019 ). Yet, the burden...
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The Gothic Origins of Global Health
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
Published: 01 September 2017
... ’s anonymous reviewers for helping her refine her argument. Nevertheless, we do not need to return to gothic global health to learn from it. This nineteenth-century form was better at holding empiricism, narrative, and human experience together. Like the gothic more generally...
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Naturalist Smellscapes and Environmental Justice
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 787–814.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of noxious “smellscapes” structures Norris’s Vandover and the Brute (1914), I move on to consider the use of smell in key scenes in the writings of Ann Petry and Helena Viramontes. While environmental justice novels extend Norris’s interest in connections between smell, health, and stratified air, they also...
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How Quarantine Attempts to Universalize the Black Condition
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Kelly L. Bezio Abstract This essay establishes similarities between control over Black bodies’ movement under chattel slavery and social distancing measures employed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its primary concern is how protecting public health necessitates undesired movement on the part...
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Embodied Politics: Antebellum Vegetarianism and the Dietary Economy of Walden
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2013
... temperance, but a more general theory of health
that included chastity and a collection of dietary and hygienic recom-
mendations that Graham referred to as “the science of human life.” As
Graham saw it, American bodies were threatened by food that was pro-
duced by increasingly mechanized, commercial...
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Engineering Womanhood: The Politics of Rejuvenation in Gertrude Atherton's Black Oxen
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 307–337.
Published: 01 June 2004
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physiologist and biologist Eugen Steinach published the results of his
early vasoligature operations. First performed on rats in 1910 and later
on humans in 1918, the procedure tied off the sperm ducts, which pur-
portedly had the effect of reversing the internal and external signs
of aging.2 Steinach...
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Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Douglas Dowland Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry . By Ann Keniston . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2015 . xii, 240 pp. Paper, $49.95 ; e-book, $49.95 . Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism...
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Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 297–324.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... Catherine , and Schweinhardt Petra . 2013 . “ Representation of Pain in the Brain .” In Wall and Melzack’s Textbook of Pain , edited by McMahon Stephen et al. , 111 – 28 . Philadelphia : Elsevier . Belling Catherine . 2023 . “ Pain .” In Keywords for Health Humanities...
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Sleeping at Walden Pond: Thoreau, Abnormal Temporality, and the Modern Body
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 5–31.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Culture .” Journal of Medical Humanities 25 , no. 3 : 173 – 87 . Burbick Joan . 1994 . Healing the Republic: The Language of Health in Antebellum America . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . Coren Stanley . 1996 . Sleep Thieves: An Eye-Opening Exploration...
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An Overstory for Our Time
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 799–807.
Published: 01 December 2020
... a lifetime ago; I can’t imagine the future. My anxiety telescopes from the immediate situation—how long our health, sanity, and supplies will last; how to juggle writing with remote-schooling for my disabled son; what would happen if his father and I both became sick—zooming out to the inequities that allow...
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