Global healing : literature, advocacy, care
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Global healing : literature, advocacy, care
（Textxet : studies in comparative literature, v. 92）
Brill Rodopi, c2020
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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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