{"product_id":"global-healing-literature-advocacy-care-9789004420175","title":"Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead an interview with Karen Thornber.    In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing.    The three parts of this book discuss writings from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania that implore societies to shatter the devastating social stigmas which prevent billions from accessing effective care; to increase the availability of quality person-focused healthcare; and to prioritize partnerships that facilitate healing and enable wellbeing for both patients and loved ones.    Thornber’s Global Healing remaps the contours of comparative literature, world literature, the medical humanities, and the health humanities.    Watch a video interview with Thornber by the Mahindra Humanities Center, part of their conversations on Covid-19.    Read an interview with Thornber on Brill's Humanities Matter blog.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At once a vigorous re-framing of Medical Humanities, and a vigorous challenge to World Literature as it is currently defined, Global Healing offers a new geography, a new methodology, and a new archive, connecting the Americas to Asia and Africa, and, through that expanded sphere of analysis, speaking to the world's health crisis with a new urgency and authority.\"  - Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University      \"All too infrequently a book is published that redirects the inquiries of multiple fields. This is such a book. Global Healing is an extraordinarily huge book not merely in word count but far more so in scope, depth, and vision. Global vision is easy to say but extremely difficult to achieve. Global Healing does so. It is essential reading for those working in Asian studies, African studies, global studies, and especially medical humanities, health humanities, and bioethics.\"  - Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago    \"Karen Thornber has written a tour de force. It is difficult to imagine a book more sweeping in its scope and successful in its ambitions. Global Healing is essential reading for health humanists, as well as literary critics, historians, and health professionals who think seriously about the promise of the humanities for health.\"  -\tSari Altschuler, Northeastern University, author of The Medical Imagination    \"Karen Thornber’s Global Healing is a major achievement that will have a critical impact on both the medical humanities and global literary studies.  Ranging across traditional boundaries of east and west, north and south, with erudition, clarity, and compassion, Thornber powerfully demonstrates how literature illuminates the most essential elements of the experience of illness, as well as the limits of our medical and social approaches to its alleviation.\"    -\tAllan M. Brandt, Harvard University, author of The Cigarette Century    \"Karen Thornber has written the most extraordinary book. It is an account of global literature written from and by those experiencing, caring for, and thinking with pain, suffering and healing. But pride of place goes to works in Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Urdu, Arabic, and by writers in Africa, Oceania, Latin America and South Asia about whom even experts in global health and medical humanities will know very little. Counterposing these works with deep and original readings of Sontag, Roth, Coetzee, Fadiman, Gawande, and other well-known Western writers leads to surprising and powerful insights on the human experiences of sickness and care that will convince anyone who needs convincing how essential comparative literature is in the current debates on health care. Reading footnotes that review telling original accounts of human experiences in Korean and what happens to them when translated into Urdu, Chinese and English will upset taken for granted theories and suggest new ones. This is especially true for stigma and leprosy, AIDS, and dementia. But this is not only a book about ideas, but a vade mecum of actions, reactions, reforms, advocacy and policy. A veritable museum of global literatures on what the human experience and meanings of health, suffering and care are that can claim greater comparative cross- cultural validity than anything I have read. An immense and unique achievement!\"   Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University, author of The Soul of Care\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction  1Comparative Literature, World Literature, Global Literature   2Literature and Medicine, Medical and Health Humanities   3The Chapters    Part 1: Shattering Stigmas  Introduction: Exposing Stigmas  1Legacies of Leprosy   1Leprosy, Christianity, Europe   2Imperialism, Segregation, Hawai‘i, Nigeria   3Leprosy and East Asia   4Propagating Prejudices   5Countering Violence   5.1Leprosy Narratives and Hawai‘i   5.2Japanese and Korean Stories of Leprosy   5.3Paradise Reconsidered in Yi Ch’ŏngjun’s Your Paradise   5.4Betrayal and the Urdu Translation of Your Paradise   5.5Leprosaria as Refuge – Ola Rotimi’s Hopes of the Living Dead    2AIDS, National Fear, Literary Production  1HIV\/AIDS – The Global Epidemic   2South Africa – Silence, Secrets, Accusations   3Tanzania and Kenya – Denials, Allegations, Vulnerability   4China – Innocence, Guilt, Social Control   5The United States – Indictments, Activism, Understanding    3AIDSStigmas, Fear, Care   1Deterring Advocacy, Activism, and Education   2Deferring Responsibility   3Obstructing Timely Testing and Medical Treatment   4Forestalling Support   5Destroying Landscapes   Entr’acte: Confronting the Stigmas of Alzheimer’s    Part 2: Humanizing Healthcare  Introduction: Person-Focused Care – Advocacy, Respect, Compassion, Empathy, Healing  1Calls for Patient-Centered Care   2Person-Focused Care – Empathy, Cultural Humility, Compassion, Healing   3Challenges to Person-Focused Care   4Narrative Interventions    4Contrasts in Care  1Exposing Disparities   2Asserting Humanity   3Voicing Despair   4Articulating Change    5Speaking For, Not With   1Stories Dismissed   2Stories without Words   3Stories without Memories   4Differences Denied   6 Medically Treating, Not Healing    1Transforming Medicine – Women Physicians and Healing   2Saving without Healing   3Temporarily Curing without Healing   4Accentuating Violence, Impeding Healing    7Interventions in Dying   1Easing Death   1.1On the Right to Decline Death-Prolonging Care   1.2On the Right to Life-Ending Care   2Conundrums of Cure   2.1Sacrifices in Discovering and Developing Cures   2.2The Paradoxical Precariousness of Cure    Part 3: Prioritizing Partnerships  Introduction: Healing Partnerships  8Promoting Partnerships in Living, Sharing Care   1Integrating Support – Patients, Loved Ones, Health Professionals, Societies   2Truth Telling – Patients, Loved Ones, Health Professionals   3Eschewing Medical Treatment – Patients, Loved Ones   4All about Elephants    9Providing Partnerships in Dying, Easing Death   1Partnerships Interrupted   2Partnerships Criminalized   3Partnerships Redefined   Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210790920535,"sku":"9789004420175","price":199.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-healing-literature-advocacy-care-9789004420175","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}