Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics (Routledge Studies in Health Humanities) - Hardcover

 
9781032431635: Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics (Routledge Studies in Health Humanities)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032431636 ISBN 13: 9781032431635
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health.

Rather than conflating the planetary with anthropogenic climate change, planetary geo-engineering, or the "global," the volume elaborates a version of planetary health humanities that invites decolonial, creative, and pluridisciplinary modes of thinking and sees "health" as a complex non-anthropocentric process that moves within the multiple scales of the planetary. The volume offers new historical trajectories as it considers an eighteenth-century woman author’s readings of plague, intersecting narratives of nineteenth-century lactation and vaccination, and the forgotten biopolitics of NASA’s Planetary Quarantine Program. It offers accounts of decolonial and oracular planetary health, insists that the role of literature in the health humanities is not merely instrumental, explores viral and planetary co-inhabitations, and scrutinizes inequities faced by global health workers. The volume also includes discussions of cybernetic addiction and the complex entanglements of humans, microbes, and bees. Its concluding interview addresses the concrete impact of current planetary transformations on individual and collective health.

Bringing together multiple disciplines, the volume will be of interest to students and scholars in health humanities, literary studies, postcolonial studies, medical history, and narrative medicine.

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About the Author

Heike Härting is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Literatures and Languages of the World at Université de Montréal, Canada.

Heather Meek is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Literatures and Languages of the World at Université de Montréal, Canada.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032431636
ISBN 13 
9781032431635
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304
Editor
Härting Heike, Meek Heather

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