Healthcare in Children's Media

Naomi Lesley is professor of English at Holyoke Community College. She is author of Fictions of Integration: American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education. Her previous research has focused on issues of race, education, and citizenship.Sarah Layzell is a writer and editor. Their research has focused on economics in children’s literature and sports in children’s literature. Layzell is author of the children’s novel, Cottonopolis.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Systemic Overview of Healthcare (and Its Absence in Media for Children)Naomi Lesley and Sarah LayzellInterview with Dallas Ducar, CEO of Transhealth, and Nichole Mayweather-Banks, LCSW, Founder of Changing FACES Counseling & Wellness, LLC Naomi Lesley, Dallas Ducar, and Nichole Mayweather-BanksPart 1: Healthcare in Contemporary RealismSubstance Use, Community Healing, and Care Gaps in Children’s LiteratureNaomi LesleyConjoinment as/​and Inequality in Sarah Crossan’s One Joseph HollowayMental Health and Masculine Silence in Adib Khorram’s Darius the Great Is Not Okay Jeremy JohnstonPart 2: Bibliotherapy and Health Literacy BooksAn Interview with Anna Macdonald, Graphic Medicine Project Manager for Comics YouthSarah Layzell and Anna MacdonaldDealing with Dementia: Patients and Their Caregivers in German PicturebooksFarriba Schulz and Antje TannenCaregiving Children and Absent Medical Professionals: Hyperemesis Gravidarum in PicturebooksB.J. WoodsteinMoving toward Literature-Based Dentistry to Boost Oral Health Literacy of Children: Interprofessional Partnerships between Dentists, Doctors, and LibrariansValerie A. Ubbes, Madison Miner, and Manjushri KarthikeyanPart 3: Storytelling Ethics and Speculative CareAn Interview with Sudeshna Shome Ghosh, Publisher for Talking Cub, about A Bend in Time: Writings by Children on the COVID-19 Pandemic Sarah Layzell and Sudeshna Shome Ghosh"Unviling" ALife: Ethical Choices of Healthcare Practitioners about Future Children Anna BugajskaShifting Stories: Care Ethics and Masculinities in the Television Series Teen WolfCarrie SpencerThe Metaphor of Madness: Metaphor and Mental Illness in Contemporary YA FictionMelanie Goss"No One Would Be Moved by Any Feeling Save Pity": Children, Narrative, and Healthcare in Annie Fellows Johnston’s Little Colonel SeriesDawn Sardella-AyresAfterword: Women of Color Health Equity Collective Executive Board Discussion: Health Inequities and COVID-19 Vanessa E. Martínez-Renuncio, Dayna Campbell, and Jenise KatalinaAbout the Contributors Index

"Healthcare in Children's Media provides a valuable resource for clinicians, parents, patients, and others with a stake in matters of child and adolescent health." - Anthony Wright, assistant professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University