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Editor's Foreword Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Michael Blackie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Foreword Michael Blackie This issue's theme, Cultures of Palliative Care, and its Front Matter's object, afterlife, dovetail more than any other time since I introduced Front Matter in 2020. Some of the essays guest editors Anna Elsner and Steven Wilson introduce explore the unfathomable: life before and after great loss. All
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Knowing Black Afterlives Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Kimberly Bain
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Knowing Black Afterlives Kimberly Bain (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. "Habeas Corpus" by Kimberly Bain. Mixed media collage, 2022. No one thought to look for her because she was already dead. No one had to ask how. The city was smoldering, fire devouring yellow-papered walls, couches with fur-covered indentations
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The Peculiar Sensation Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Endia Hayes
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Peculiar Sensation Endia Hayes (bio) What marks the Black body in the afterlives of enslavement? Perhaps we look to what Saidiya Hartman describes as the "skewed life chances, limited access to health education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment."1 What more can we look to as evidence of these afterlives beyond the
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Experimentally Torn Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Ijeoma Kola
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Experimentally Torn Ijeoma Kola (bio) On March 16, 2024, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a pig kidney transplant. At least five successful pig kidney xenotransplantations have been completed in the United States alone since 2021.1 In those instances, the procedure, which replaces a human kidney with a genetically
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Afterlife Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Susan J. Sample
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Afterlife Susan J. Sample (bio) After Life We huddle, fluorescent lights flickering overhead. Lilia remembers trailing the resident … "He doesn't tell me, '… to the patient's room.' 'Listen for the lack of a heartbeat,' he says as I place the stethoscope on the chest. 'Feel the absence of a pulse.' My fingertips press on arteries in the
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Afterlife and Life-After Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Jaime Konerman-Sease
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Afterlife and Life-After Jaime Konerman-Sease (bio) I wasn't allowed to play video games as a kid. Like many parents in the new millennium, mine were highly skeptical that video games could lead to any good—and so I watched as my friends developed their spatial awareness and controller skills playing Halo, Guitar Hero, and Grand Theft
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The Afterlife of Data Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Kirsten Ostherr
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Afterlife of Data Kirsten Ostherr (bio) There was a moment in the 2010s when digital death became a widely discussed topic in online circles. What happens to someone's Facebook page after they pass away? Who has the right to access, post to, or archive someone else's social media presence? Should those sites become spaces of memorialization
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Eco-Anxiety and the Intractable Afterlives of Plastic Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Geovani Ramírez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Eco-Anxiety and the Intractable Afterlives of Plastic1 Geovani Ramírez (bio) Plastic Expressions "Are you ready for your fish mask, Mila?" Kyra asks as she carefully places the soft, plastic mask (designed to make the wearer look like a friendly fish) over our daughter's face and flips on the nebulizer. Kyra tries to conceal her worry
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Sitting with Death Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Nathan Gray
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Introduction: A "Totalizing" View of Palliative Care Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Anna M. Elsner, Steven Wilson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:A "Totalizing" View of Palliative Care Anna M. Elsner (bio) and Steven Wilson (bio) Mortality in its many guises, either as the abstract horizon of our lives constituted by death, or as the actual experience of dying, has always been at the heart of literary texts. In recent years, autobiographies about dying, written by terminal
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Cicely Saunders and the Literary and Cultural Heritage of "Total Pain" Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Joe Wood
Abstract: In this article, I present some of the literary and cultural influences behind hospice pioneer Cicely Saunders's idea of "total pain," a term she used from the 1960s onwards to promote the holistic approach which has since become palliative care. Existing studies imply "total pain" emerged from Saunders's own mixed career experiences and her attention to patient narratives. However, I explore
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The Intimate Palliative Sphere: Affect, Gender, and the Good Death in Relational End-of-Life Narratives Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Katja Herges
Abstract: An increasing number of collaborative end-of-life narratives have been published after the death of the protagonist. Focusing on two examples of women's end-of-life memoirs in contemporary German popular culture, this essay examines how relationality, gender, and affectivity shape the philosophies, practices, and politics of palliative care and the associated concepts of the "good death."
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Love, Death, and—No Hospital!: Assisted Dying, "Liebestod," and Existential Suffering Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Marc Keller
Abstract: Contemporary literature about assisted dying in Germany, Switzerland, and France repeatedly explores the impact of illness on romantic relationships. Faced with the imminent or experienced death of their loved one, the healthy partner is affected by existential suffering and refuses to outlive the other. This dynamic leads to (joint) suicide, echoing the literary tradition of the Liebestod
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Holes in the Protective Cloak of Palliative Care: Mathieu Simonet's La maternité and Eduardo Berti's An Ideal Presence Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Julia Pröll
Abstract: In the novels An Ideal Presence (2020) by Eduardo Berti and La maternité [Maternity] (2012) by Mathieu Simonet, relatives of the dying and palliative care professionals are given a voice. Their experiences highlight "holes" in the cloak of care, which can never protect the terminally ill completely. However, they also raise the question of a pallium for the carers themselves. This need of
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Last Narratives: Life Writing Palliative Praxis Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Franziska Gygax
Abstract: Research on palliative care emphasizes the crucial role of narratives in the encounter with suffering and dying patients because we need to learn from the dying in order to improve care for them. Autobiographical narratives by terminally ill writers contribute to a more encompassing understanding of what it means to be dying as they often thematize dying and death, besides theorizing all
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A Practice of Literary Palliation: Philippe Forest's L'Enfant éternel Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Jordan Owen McCullough
Abstract: Philippe Forest's first autofictional novel, L'Enfant éternel (The eternal child), centers on the terminal illness and eventual death of the author's daughter, Pauline. While scholarly attention has been directed toward the role of the text in caring for the child, this essay addresses the absence of care for Pauline's parents and their marginalization throughout her end-of-life hospitalization
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Palliative Images in Marion Coutts's The Iceberg and Marco Peano's L'invenzione della madre Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Maria Vaccarella
Abstract: This article explores the representation of terminal brain cancer in Marion Coutts's memoir The Iceberg (2014), on her husband's illness and death, and Marco Peano's autofiction L'invenzione della madre (The invention of the mother; 2015), about a son who cares for his mother during her final days. While addressing the medicalization of dying and the efficacy of palliative care, both texts
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Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain by Paolo Savoia (review) Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Viktoria von Hoffmann
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain by Paolo Savoia Viktoria von Hoffmann (bio) Paolo Savoia. Gaspare Tagliacozzi and Early Modern Surgery: Faces, Men, and Pain. London: Routledge, 2019. 284 pp. Paperback, $51.99. A translated and slightly revised edition of Paolo Savoia's Cosmesi e Chirurgia
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Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean ed. by Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati (review) Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Kaitlin Sager
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean ed. by Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati Kaitlin Sager (bio) Elma Brenner and François-Olivier Touati, eds. Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: From England to the Mediterranean. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 424 pp. Hardcover
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Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books by Peter Fifield (review) Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Jeremy Colangelo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books by Peter Fifield Jeremy Colangelo (bio) Peter Fifield. Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 272 pp. Hardcover, $80.00. Peter Fifield's monograph Modernism and Physical Illness comes out at a time when modernism studies has been re-discovering
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The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise (review) Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Sakshi Srivastava
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities ed. by Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise Sakshi Srivastava (bio) Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise, eds. The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2020. 492 pp. Hardback, $280.00. Ever since 2010, when Paul Crawford and colleagues
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Contributors Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Kimberly Bain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia–Vancouver. Her most pressing and urgent concerns have consolidated around questions of the history, theory, and philosophy of the African diaspora. She is currently at work on two scholarly monographs
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Guest Editor's Introduction: Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sara Wasson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Guest Editor's Introduction:Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling Sara Wasson (bio) How to narrate an illnessin fairer climates andto fair-weather figures. * How not to. —Amy Allara1 Pain may be a wind, a mist, live burial, a rubbish tip, a concrete suit, shattered glass, a knife.2 Discussions
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Essaying Pain Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ann Jurecic
Abstract: Narrative has long been central to the study of literature about illness, but we err if we assume that memoir and fiction alone depict the embodied experience of physical suffering. Contemporary writers also turn to the essay. In French, essayer means to attempt, and writing essays requires facing difficult questions and predicaments, confronting uncertainty and the unknown. Among recent
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Anguish in Language: Pain as a Biocultural Experience in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Daniel Direkoglu
Abstract: Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) represents physical pain as a multidimensional experience entwined with history, language, and culture. By linking descriptions of anti-Black racist encounters with the imagery of somatic aches, Rankine blurs the boundaries between psychological suffering and physical distress to offer readers a nuanced depiction of the way racist discourse
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The Pain of Residential Schools in Canada: An Analysis of Silence and Narrative Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Wade Paul
Abstract: In operation for over a century, the Indian Residential School system is a painful part of Canadian history. Through the theoretical approaches to pain envisioned by Elaine Scarry, Javier Moscoso, and Ilit Ferber, this article examines how the pain of residential school experiences manifests as silence among residential school survivors. Through a close analysis of narratives that break free
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"Your Tiny White Vests, Unworn": Contemporary Elegies of Maternal Loss Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Anne Whitehead
Abstract: This essay asks whether poetry can articulate the experience of maternal loss, paying particular attention to questions of form. Focusing on two British poetry collections, Rebecca Goss's Her Birth (2013) and Karen McCarthy Woolf's An Aviary of Small Birds (2014), I argue that the contemporary elegy is currently being reshaped to explore the grief of losing a baby, and to bear witness to
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Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Katharine Cheston
Abstract: Storytelling is good for us—or so we are told. This article examines two memoirs, by Hilary Mantel and Susanna Kaysen, in which narrating experiences of gynecological pain provokes shame and deepens pain. By attending to shame as a textual presence, I intervene in a longstanding debate about how to make sense of pain and illness. Shame, I argue, reveals the presence of multiple (and often
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Authoring Pain: Fragmentation and Autofiction in Maggie Nelson's Bluets Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Maria Vaccarella
Abstract: This article analyzes Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) as a prominent example of the fragmentary narration that can result from the experience of pain and loss. I demonstrate how Nelson's disparate ruminations on her obsession for the color blue, her heartbreak, and her quadriplegic friend's chronic pain defy the superimposition of a teleological plot over these experiences, in favor of episodic
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Strange and Tender Fracture: Flash Illness Writing, Chronic Pain, and Alternatives to "Resilience" Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sara Wasson
Abstract: How might flash writing be useful in communicating chronic pain? This question drove the UKRI AHRC-funded project Translating Chronic Pain at Lancaster University (2017–2019), which focused on the potential of fragmentary, episode-driven forms. This article examines how the ultra-short form and navigation architectures of the Translating Pain online anthology facilitate a polyphony of responses
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Vehement Experiences: The Inscription and Description of Delusion in Nineteenth-century French Asylums Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Javier Moscoso
Abstract: This essay explores the differences in the narrative forms of mental illness, depending on whether the sources consulted come from published medical histories or archival material. Based on the study of dozens of clinical cases contained in, above all, the institutions of Charenton and Bicêtre, from the late eighteenth century to the 1850s, I argue that the distinctive feature of the clinical
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Crime Fiction and the Knowing of Pain Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Susannah B. Mintz
Abstract: Recent studies of pain have disputed the idea that pain eludes representation in language. Where these have largely focused on the experience of pain, my paper examines the epistemological function of pain in crime fiction, a genre that by definition foregrounds meaning: what and how we know. A good crime story depends structurally on resolution, but its pleasure derives more thoroughly from
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Attending Pain, Ethnographically Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Megan Crowley-Matoka
Abstract: What might ethnography—as both practice and text—offer for thinking about and with non-narrative forms of pain representation? Ethnography operates as an inherently fragmentary, episodic form of knowledge-making: the central acts of observing and writing social life rest upon moments plucked and crafted from the unruly, relentless rush of intersubjective experience. Bringing an ethnographic
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Editor's Foreword: Remembering Carol Donley Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Michael Blackie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Foreword:Remembering Carol Donley Michael Blackie The field of Literature and Medicine has lost one of its most passionate early proponents. Carol Donley, cofounder of Hiram College's Center for Literature and Medicine and the Literature and Medicine book series published by Kent State University Press, among other remarkable
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Foreword to Front Matter: Recovery Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Michael Blackie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Foreword to Front Matter:Recovery Michael Blackie We all know something about recovery. The return of a lost object, like health or dignity, maybe a cherished memento, or a talisman from another time. It is a narrative driven experience, propelled by expectation, a story we tell to make sense of what can be recovered or to put into perspective
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Amidst, By, Near, With: Locating Recovery and Forgetting in the Shadow of COVID Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Hosanna Krienke
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Amidst, By, Near, With:Locating Recovery and Forgetting in the Shadow of COVID Hosanna Krienke (bio) Here are some perhaps too-personal questions to ask yourself: Have you stopped wearing a mask? When did you stop? Do you even remember? When was the first time you forgot to wash your hands as soon as you got home? Do you still hold your
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High Rates Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 E. T. Russian, Juliet McMullin, Delight Satter
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Something Is Wrong Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Rachel Fein-Smolinski
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Something Is Wrong Rachel Fein-Smolinski (bio) "Relief from pain through palliative artmaking can save us from the discomfort of living with this injustice and violence that we see every day, but it does not treat the basis for the pain. […] Is the artist perhaps unconsciously at first trying to fight inevitable death by stacking up the
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Recovering a Literary Legacy: The Life of Delores Phillips Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Delia Steverson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Recovering a Literary Legacy:The Life of Delores Phillips Delia Steverson (bio) In 2002, after suffering a heart attack, author Delores Phillips miraculously drove herself to a Cleveland hospital. Recovering from complications during her hospitalization, Delores later recalled to her only daughter, Shalana Harris, "Man, I should've died
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Are We Ever Really Recovered? Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Gianna Paniagua
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Irrecoverable Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Margarita Saona
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Irrecoverable Margarita Saona (bio) "We'll get you back to that," the cardiologist said with a wide smile, pointing to a photo posted on the wall of my room in the Adult Surgical Heart Unit. It was a picture of me breaking a board with a sidekick from the floor of my karate school. I had suffered what a member of the cardiac team called
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Allegorical Investigations: Autism, Applied Behavioral Analysis, and Medieval Poetry Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Kate Crassons
Abstract: This essay explores the connections between the modern autism intervention Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) and medieval personification allegory to show how literature powerfully enables the work of neurodiversity. Invoking the theory of the language game to investigate the clinical history of ABA, the essay puts the fourteenth-century poet William Langland in dialogue with Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Becoming-Amazon: Femininity, Embodiment, and Sexuality in a Photographic and Digital Breast Cancer Project Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Katja Herges
Abstract: In recent decades, digital and photographic life narratives by women living with breast cancer and mastectomy have gained public visibility. This article examines how a documentary and fashion photography project in contemporary Berlin rethinks normative concepts of femininity, embodiment, and sexuality through the performance of the breast cancer patient as Amazon warrior. Based on feminist
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Seeing Horror through the Lens of Health: Embodying Dissociative Identity Disorder in The Babadook Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Paul Mitchell
Abstract: This essay analyzes the representation of dissociative identity disorder in Jennifer Kent's debut feature, The Babadook (2014). Although the film's exploration of psychological themes such as maternal ambivalence, grief, and repression have already been widely discussed in the critical literature, I argue that such readings tend to mitigate the embodied nature of the suffering that Kent's
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Better Medicine: Shared Suffering and Chronic Vulnerability in Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Tana Jean Welch
Abstract: A posthumanist understanding of the body does not view "illness" and "health" as properties of the individual body, but as emergent features of the relationships between bodies. As such, a relational view of health opens up avenues for the betterment of both human bodies and their social and physical environments. Drawing on posthumanism and the ethics of vulnerability, this article demonstrates
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Paraphrasing Finitude: Seeking Refuge from Death in Thomas Bernhard's Wittgenstein's Nephew Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Madalina Meirosu
Abstract: Thomas Bernhard's novella Wittgenstein's Nephew is typically read as a quasi-memoir about Bernhard's relationship with Paul Wittgenstein, the nephew of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. But Bernhard is up to something else. The novella dramatizes the different ways that language and storytelling defend against anxieties associated with illness and mortality. Bernhard is able to show this
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Diagnosing Desire: Imaginative Experiments with Sexuality and the Nerves Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Ira Halpern
Abstract: American fiction often tells us that there is something sick about romantic desire. But the writers who I discuss in this article told their readers this even as they critiqued the medical profession's pathologization of women's desires and non-normative sexual subjectivities. In particular, this article looks at two literary responses to the medical notion that marriage was a cure for hysteria
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Prairie Madness: Mental Illness and Norwegian Immigration to North America in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Virginia Langum
Abstract: In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there was widespread concern about the fate of immigrants to the United States. One area of particular concern was mentally ill immigrants, as illustrated in contemporaneous screening procedures, asylum reports, government commissions, popular media, fiction, and scientific studies. This article examines the depiction of one mentally ill immigrant
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Contagion and the Body Politic: De Quincey on the 1830 Revolution in France Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Roxanne Covelo
Abstract: Writing in the fall of 1830, in the period immediately following France's révolution de juillet, Thomas De Quincey predicts the imminent breakdown of social order in Britain. In his political writing for Blackwood's Magazine over the course of this period, he consistently frames the threat of French-style revolution in terms of the body politic and its vulnerability to contagion, often playing
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The Case of the Peculiar Story: Medical Investigation and the Detective in Edgar Allan Poe and Marguerite Duras Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Iro Filippaki, Lakshmi Krishnan
Abstract: In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), Poe invents the detective story in English, introducing his gentleman sleuth Auguste Dupin as he solves the locked-room mystery of two women found brutally murdered in a Paris apartment. In L'Amante Anglaise (1967), Duras revisits the detective form, fictionalizing the true 1949 crime of a woman murdering and dismembering her cousin in Viorne, France
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Contributors Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Roxanne Covelo holds a PhD in Modern Literature from the University of Minas Gerais and a Master's in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. Her research on nineteenth-century journalists and essayists like Thomas De Quincey can be found in Studies in Romanticism, Comparative Literature Studies, the Journal
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Editor's Foreword Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Michael Blackie
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Foreword Michael Blackie To celebrate Literature and Medicine's 40th anniversary, I asked four previous Executive Editors, all of whom remain actively involved with the journal, to reflect on their experiences. Anne Hudson Jones's piece, "Literature and Medicine: The First Decade," provides a detailed account of the journal's
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Literature and Medicine: The First Decade Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Anne Hudson Jones
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Literature and Medicine:The First Decade Anne Hudson Jones (bio) The first volume of Literature and Medicine, which appeared forty years ago in 1982, offers many answers to the important question, Why? Why did the unusual conjunction of these two disciplines merit starting a journal? Equally important at the time was the question, How
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Literature and Medicine 2000–2007 Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Maura Spiegel, Rita Charon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Literature and Medicine 2000–2007 Maura Spiegel (bio) and Rita Charon (bio) Our co-editorial retrospect on Literature and Medicine from 2000 to 2007 exposes major conceptual and disciplinary breakthroughs that, at the time, were of course invisible. We can see now how significant a role L&M played in the emergence and development of the
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Communicable (Literature and Medicine 2013–2018) Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Catherine Belling
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Communicable (Literature and Medicine 2013–2018) Catherine Belling (bio) I find my present position here in 2022 a strange one from which to think back on my time editing Literature and Medicine from 2013 to 2018, years both catastrophic and oddly empty. I must now read the issues I edited through the intervening retrospective lens of
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2020 and Beyond Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Michael Blackie, MK Czerwiec
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 2020 and Beyond Michael Blackie and MK Czerwiec (bio) When this issue goes to print, I will have been Executive Editor of Literature and Medicine for three years. My tenure began in January 2020, two months before lockdown. Although time during the pandemic's first year lacked clear punctuation, with days becoming weeks and weeks becoming
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Apprehensions of a Canon: Literature and Medicine 2013–2022 Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Anna Fenton-Hathaway
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Apprehensions of a Canon:Literature and Medicine 2013–2022 Anna Fenton-Hathaway (bio) Space, through translation, connects, whereas time, through the canon, divides. —Marta Arnaldi, early draft of "Illness as a Foreign Tongue" The claim in the epigraph is meant to be experienced by readers in a certain mood. Lyrical and nervy, it withholds
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An Editorial Philosophy of Book Reviews Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Travis Chi Wing Lau
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: An Editorial Philosophy of Book Reviews Travis Chi Wing Lau (bio) I have always had a strange attachment to the scholarly book review. It was one of the first forms of academic writing I learned to do in graduate school and one of the very first publication opportunities for me as a graduate student. In contrast to the argumentative, evidential
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Reading Wharton with Pain: On Rest, Practices, and Care Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Shari Goldberg
Abstract: Critics have widely regarded Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep (1927) as an ironic novel about pain: a satire of modern life's supposed promise that pain can be avoided. This essay argues that Wharton's novel is as much about managing pain as it is about avoiding it. I consider the novel in light of experiences of chronic pain and illness, both Wharton's and my own. My analysis finds that while
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Humane Animals: Moral Treatment and the Non-Human at York Retreat Literature and Medicine (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Matthew McConkey
Abstract: This article sheds new light on the human-animal binary in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century psychiatry by considering the therapeutic uses of non-human animals during the early years of the York Retreat (1796–1813). By considering both figurative and "real" uses of non-human animals at the Retreat, I demonstrate how the figure of the animal in institutional discourse shifted towards