Health Humanities in Application (Sustainable Development Goals Series)

This book focuses on health humanities in application. The field reflects many intellectual interests and practical applications, serving researchers, educators, students, health care practitioners, and community members wherever health and wellness and the humanities intersect. How we implement health humanities forms the core approach, and perspectives are global, including North America, Africa, Europe, and India. Emphasizing key developments in health humanities, the book’s chapters examine applications, including reproductive health policy and arts‑based research methods, black feminist approaches to health humanities pedagogy, artistic expressions of lived experience of the coronavirus, narratives of repair and re‑articulation and creativity, cultural competency in physician‑patient communication through dance, embodied dance practice as knowing and healing, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, eye tracking, ableism and disability, rethinking expertise in disability justice, disability and the Global South, coronavirus and Indian politics, visual storytelling in graphic medicine, and medical progress and racism in graphic fiction.

Christian Riegel is Professor of Health Humanities and English at Campion College at the University of Regina. They are a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) in the United Kingdom. Among their books are Writing Grief: Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning, Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning, and Twenty‑First Century Canadian Writers. They are coordinator of the certificate program in health and medical humanities at the University of Regina.

Katherine M. Robinson is Professor of Psychology at Campion College at the University of Regina and graduate chair of the experimental and applied psychology program, University of Regina. They are a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) in the United Kingdom. They specialize in mathematical cognition, the psychology of evil, and eye tracker computer game design for data collection. They recently published Mathematical Learning and Cognition in Early Childhood Education: Integrating Interdisciplinary Research into Practice.