Global healing : : literature, advocacy, care / / by Karen Laura Thornber.

• Superior document: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; Volume 92
• VerfasserIn: Thornber, Karen Laura,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature ; 92.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 693 pages)

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...

Table of Contents

• Introduction  1 Comparative literature, world literature, global literature – 2 Literature and medicine, medical and health humanities – 3 The chapters
• Part 1: Shattering stigmas
• Introduction: Exposing stigmas   1 Legacies of leprosy  1 Leprosy, Christianity, Europe – 2 Imperialism, segregation, Hawai‘i, Nigeria – 3 Leprosy and East Asia – 4 Propagating prejudices – 5 Countering violence
• 2 AIDS, national fear, literary production  1 HIV / AIDS – The global epidemic – 2 South Africa – Silence, secrets, accusations – 3 Tanzania and Kenya – Denials, allegations, vulnerability – 4 China – Innocence, guilt, social Control – 5 The United States – Indictments, activism, understanding
• 3 AIDS Stigmas, fear, care – 1 Deterring advocacy, activism, and education – 2 Deferring responsibility – 3 Obstructing timely testing and medical treatment – 4 Forestalling support – 5 Destroying landscapes
• Entr’acte: confronting the stigmas of alzheimer’s
• Part 2: Humanizing healthcare
• Introduction: Person-focused care – Advocacy, respect, compassion, empathy, healing  1 Calls for patient-centered care
• 2 Person-focused care – Empathy, cultural humility, compassion, healing--  3 Challenges to person-focused care – 4 Narrative interventions
•  4 Contrasts in care 1 Exposing disparities – 2 Asserting humanity – 3 Voicing despair – 4 Articulating change – 5 Speaking for, not with – 1 Stories dismissed
• 2 Stories without words
• 3 Stories without memories
• 4 Differences denied
• 6 Medically treating, not healing
•  1 Transforming medicine – Women physicians and healing – 2 Saving without healing – 3 Temporarily curing without healing – 4 Accentuating violence, impeding healing – 7 Interventions in Dying – 1 Easing death – 2 Conundrums of cure
• Part 3: Prioritizing partnerships
• Introduction: Healing partnerships 8 Promoting partnerships in living, sharing care – 1 Integrating support – Patients, loved ones, health professionals, societies
• 2 Truth telling – Patients, loved ones, health professionals – 3 Eschewing medical treatment – Patients, loved ones – 4 All about elephants – 9 Providing partnerships in dying, easing death
• 1Partnerships interrupted – 2 Partnerships criminalized –3 Partnerships redefined – Bibliography
• Index.