Keywords for Health Humanities

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.

"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) "Overall, Keywords provides readers an opportunity to reimagine language and the way we use it as we attempt to further define the feld and the world in which we live. Used as a leaping-of point for meaningful conversation, it is a wholly productive endeavor. As a teaching tool, it introduces students not only to keywords but also to the overwhelming importance of language and the possibility of a shared vocabulary." (Journal of Medical Humanities)