Global healing : literature, advocacy, care

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    • Thornber, Karen Laura

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Global healing : literature, advocacy, care

Karen Laura Thornber

(Textxet : studies in comparative literature, v. 92)

Brill Rodopi, c2020

  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [585-656) and index

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Description

Read an interview with Karen Thornber. 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. Read an interview with Thornber on Brill's Humanities Matter blog.

Table of Contents

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

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