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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.
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Watch a video interview with Thornber by the Mahindra Humanities Center, part of their conversations on Covid-19.
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Reviews
"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."
- Sari Altschuler, Northeastern University, author of The Medical Imagination
Author Biography
Karen Laura Thornber, Ph.D. (2006), Harvard, is Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. Her publications include Empire of Texts in Motion (2009), Ecoambiguity (2012), several (co)edited volumes, translations, and more than 70 articles/chapters.
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- Publisher/Imprint Brill / Rodopi
- Publication Date April 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789004420175
- FormatBook
- Primary Price 25 EUR
- Pages709
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions235x155 mm
- SeriesTextxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
- Series Part92
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