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\"Discusses making good life choices, including eating healthy foods, staying active, and learning to deal with stress\"--Amazon.com.
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Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes
This book explores Native American literary responses to
biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social
and cultural contexts.
Native American communities resist reductivism of biomedicine that excludes
Indigenous (and non-Western) epistemologies and instead draw attention to how
illness, healing, treatment, and genetic research are socially constructed and
dependent on inherently racialist thinking. This volume highlights how interventions
into the hegemony of biomedicine are vigorously addressed in Native American
literature. The book covers tuberculosis and diabetes epidemics, the emergence of
Native American DNA, discoveries in biotechnology, and the problematics of a
biomedical model of psychiatry. The book analyzes the works of Madonna Swan, Louise
Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan, Heid E. Erdrich, Elissa Washuta
and Frances Washburn.
The book will appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as well
as to others with an interest in literature and medicine.
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Narrative Art and the Politics of Health
As countless alterations have taken place in medicine in the twenty-first century so too have literary artists addressed new understandings of disease and pathology. Dis/ability studies, fat studies, mad studies, end-of-life studies, and critical race studies among other fields have sought to better understand what social factors lead to pathologizing certain conditions while other variations remain “normalized.\" While recognizing that these scholarly approaches often speak to identities with radically different experiences of pathologization, this collection of essays is open to all critical engagements with narratives of health in order to facilitate the messiness of cross-disciplinary collaboration and interdisciplinarity. As scientific advances provide insight into a wide range of well-being issues and help extend life, it is vital that we come to question the very categories of “healthy\" and “unhealthy.\" This collection brings together analyses of cultural productions which probe those categorizations and suggest new psychological and philosophical understandings which will help better apply and guide the knowledge being rapidly developed within the life sciences. “Right of health\" is a widely accepted human right, but in applying a right to healthcare what care and what sort of health are less universally agreed upon. The contributors share an interest in addressing who controls answers to the questions of “how do we define a healthy body and a healthy life?\" and “what are the political forces that influence our definitions of health?\"
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The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease
Human suffering and illness as well as health and healing are topics of ongoing actuality. In a world of growing complexity and interrelatedness a broader perspective on these topics is needed. The global conference project on \"Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease\" is a forum for scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 5th conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2006. It combines essays that transgress traditional disciplinary boundaries in the field of health care delivery and medicine. It thus will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care providers who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which health, illness and disease can be understood.
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City of Health, Fields of Disease
The Romantic Era witnessed a series of conflicts concerning definitions of health and disease. In this book, Martin Wallen discusses those conflicts and the cultural values that drove them. The six chapters progress from the mainstream rejuvenation of the Socratic values by Wordsworth and Coleridge to the radical alternatives offered by the Scottish theorist, John Brown, and the speculative German philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling. Wallen shows how actual definitions of health and disease changed at the turn of the nineteenth century, and provides an analysis of the metaphorical uses to which romantic thinkers put these different definitions in their attempts to value or devalue competing concepts of individuality, poetic expression, and history. Key to the redefinition of these concepts was the use of the rhetoric of medicine to add value to those statements considered desirable and to undermine those targeted for elimination from public discourse. By juxtaposing the well-known critical works of Wordsworth and Coleridge with lesser-known works such as Schelling's Yearbooks of Medicine and Thomas Beddoes' medical treatises, Wallen illuminates the central role medicine played in redefining the human being's relationship to society and nature - part of the cultural revolution that began in the nineteenth century.
Martin Wallen is Associate Professor in the English Department at Oklahoma State University, USA.
Contents: Introduction; Lyrical health in Wordsworth and Coleridge; Coleridge's scrofulous dejection; The medical frame of character and the enforcement of normative health in Thomas Beddoes' 'Observations on the Character and Writings of John Brown, M.D.'; A secret excitement: Coleridge, John Brown, and the chance for a physical imagination; Schelling's medical singing school in the Yearbooks of Medicine as Science; The electromagnetic orgasm and history outside the city; Notes; Works cited; Index.
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Learning about public health via novels : low interest by medical students, especially relative to movies
Witnesses the lack of medical students' interest in novels (regardless of format), particularly in contrast with much more positive attitudes to public health related movies. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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