Bodily Capacity beyond Pathology: Towards an Embodied Intersubjectivity in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being [0.03%]
超越病理的身体能力——论 Ruth Ozeki 的《时间居所》中的身体主体间性理论
Kathryn Cai
Kathryn Cai
This paper builds on simultaneous calls for a critical health humanities that engages with the complexities and difficulties of imaginative literature and with structural injustice, rather than straightforward formulations of interpersonal ...
The Psychopharmacological Thriller: Representations of Psychotropic Pills in American Popular Culture [0.03%]
美国通俗文化中的精神药物惊险小说：对精神药片的描述
Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett
Psychotropic medications have increasingly become a staple of modern life, with one in five adults now taking some kind of psychiatric pill. Consequently, our voracious consumption of psychotropic pills has begun to raise significant questi...
Saljooq M Asif,Madeleine Disner,Folarin Odusola et al.
Saljooq M Asif et al.
With its focus on genetics, the mutant body, and social discrimination, the X-Men franchise explores themes pertinent to the health humanities. The 2017 film Logan sharpens this focus and presents a world that echoes many current social, po...
Hydrophobia's Doppelgänger: Toward a Literary History of Emotions in Early American Rabies Narratives [0.03%]
恐水症的双生子：美国早期狂犬病叙事中的情感文学史研究
Don James McLaughlin
Don James McLaughlin
This essay explores how phobia emerged as a familiar medical diagnostic in the United States and Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Before phobia developed into a variable suffix that could attach to different object...
Robin Alex McDonald
Robin Alex McDonald
Grounded in analyses of two graphic memoirs, Ellen Forney's Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me and Allie Brosh's "Depression (Parts One & Two)," this article draws from Sara Ahmed's 2006 book, Queer Phenomenology: Objects, Orie...
Anita Wohlmann,Madaline Harrison
Anita Wohlmann
This article explores the representation of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease in the television series The Good Wife and The Michael J. Fox Show. We suggest that serial narration offers intriguing ways to rethink the function and meaning...
Sarah Pett
Sarah Pett
Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill (1926) is the first published essay in English on illness in literature. Historically neglected, in recent years rising popular and academic interest in the intersection of illness and the arts has led to a red...
Emily James
Emily James
In her 1926 essay On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf explores the "poverty of the language" in matters of illness and uncovers a lexical rift between patients and caregivers-one that continues to trouble contemporary medical culture. Even as her ...
An Appetite for Injection: Addiction, Gender, and Race in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (1890) [0.03%]
贪嘴的注射者——阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《四签名》中的成瘾、性别与种族问题（1890）
This essay explores representations of injection in nineteenth-century medical and literary culture. Through an analysis of medical texts, I show how injection came to be understood through descriptions of racial and gender difference borro...