Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics

Heike Härting, Heather Meek

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Routledge
29 March 2024

Literary studies: post-colonial literature; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Social impact of disasters; Personal & public health; Medical sociology

Series: Routledge Studies in Health Humanities

"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."

Edited by: Heike Härting, Heather Meek
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 721g
ISBN: 9781032431635
ISBN 10: 1032431636
Series: Routledge Studies in Health Humanities
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 29 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics

Heike Härting, Heather Meek

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