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American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities : Writing Contagion /
American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion bridges a gap in the market by linking the medical humanities with disability studies. It examines how Americans have used life writing to record epidemic disease throughout history. Starting in the late 1800s with Yellow Fever and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald Publishing,
2020.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Interdisciplinary Epidemics: Illness Narratives in American Literature, Disability Studies, and the Medical Humanities
- The History and Past Lives of Illness Life Writing
- The Future of Illness Narratives
- Terms
- Chapters
- Chapter 1: Yellow Fever: Early American Illness Narratives (or the Lack Thereof)
- Yellow Fever History: A Long-forgotten Peril
- Early American Life Writing: Yellow Fever and Other Illness Narratives
- Privileged Voices: Doctor's Narratives
- Other Yellow Fever Accounts: The Unpublished
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: "Pale Horse, Pale Rider": The Forgotten 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Role of Literature in Illness Narratives
- Illness Narratives
- The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
- Reading "Pale Horse" as a Modernist Illness Narrative
- Disability and Illness in "Pale Horse"
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Mid-twentieth Century Polio Memoirs: The Beginnings of an Old Genre*
- The Quest Narrative and Polio's Link to Early American Life Writing
- The Importance of Polio Narratives
- My Place to Stand and Small Steps
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: The Chronically Ill and Stigmatized Body: HIV and AIDS
- Celebrity Illness
- Days of Grace
- Interdisciplinary Connections
- Crip Theory and Critical Race Theory
- HIV, Chronic Illness, and the Disability/Illness Divide
- Chapter 5: "Fear-bola": Constructions of Contagion
- Ebola: A Brief History
- Illness Narratives as Fact: Richard Preston and the Misinformation Crisis
- Disease and Disability: Modern-Day Freak Shows and Ebola
- Conclusion: The Future of the Fields and of Twenty-first-century Illness Narratives
- Social Media: A New Form of Storytelling
- Social Media as Illness Narratives
- Social Media and Epidemics
- Social Media Illness Narratives and the Future of the Fields
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading List
- Index