Keywords for Health Humanities

Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, Priscilla Wald

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English

New York University Press
29 August 2023

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Teaching of a specific subject; Medicolegal issues; Educational: Art & design

Series: Keywords

Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions.

Keywords for Health Humanities provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for the burgeoning field of health humanities and, more broadly, for the study of medicine and health. Sixty-five entries by leading international scholars examine current practices, ideas, histories, and debates around health and illness, revealing the social, cultural, and political factors that structure health conditions and shape health outcomes.

Presenting possibilities for health justice and social change, this volume exposes readers-from curious beginners to cultural analysts, from medical students to health care practitioners of all fields-to lively debates about the complexities of health and illness and their ethical and political implications. A study of the vocabulary that comprises and shapes a broad understanding of health and the practices of healthcare, Keywords for Health Humanities guides readers toward ways to communicate accurately and effectively while engaging in creative analytical thinking about health and healthcare in an increasingly complex world-one in which seemingly straightforward beliefs and decisions about individual and communal health represent increasingly contested terrain.

Edited by: Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, Priscilla Wald
Imprint: New York University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 203mm,
Weight: 653g
ISBN: 9781479808106
ISBN 10: 1479808105
Series: Keywords
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 29 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Keywords for Health Humanities

"""Keywords for the Health Humanities transcends its title. This rich volume contains essays that not only map the essential concepts in the health humanities, but also expand the possibilities of the field going forward. With an impressive roster of contributors whose essays address such wide-ranging topics as disability, disaster, human rights and indigeneity, as well as neurodiversity, stress, and trauma, this is a Health Humanities reader for our current era. Highly recommended not only for courses but also for any reader hoping to broaden their vision of what constitutes health."" -- Susan Squier, The Pennsylvania State University ""Many, many aperçus here that diverge, converge, challenge, illumine, and occasionally surprise yet almost always take the reader in the plural directions that make up this exciting field. An excellent place to start to figure out what the humanities bring and do to health and medicine. Entertaining but, better still, serious and useful!"" * Arthur Kleinman, author of The Soul of Care * ""This excellent sourcebook serves as an introduction to the health/medical humanities and provides insights for understanding the possibilities of the humanities to inform and transform medicine. It also serves as a springboard for further investigation into concepts of patient care, cost and quality of health care, disabilities, environmental injustice, and disparities in health care."" * Choice Connect *"