Keywords for Health Humanities [Hardcover]

Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions.

Keywords for Health Humanitiesprovides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for the burgeoning field of health humanities and, more broadly, for the study of medicine and health. Sixty-five entries by leading international scholars examine current practices, ideas, histories, and debates around health and illness, revealing the social, cultural, and political factors that structure health conditions and shape health outcomes.

Presenting possibilities for health justice and social change, this volume exposes readersfrom curious beginners to cultural analysts, from medical students to health care practitioners of all fieldsto lively debates about the complexities of health and illness and their ethical and political implications. A study of the vocabulary that comprises and shapes a broad understanding of health and the practices of healthcare,Keywords for Health Humanitiesguides readers toward ways to communicate accurately and effectively while engaging in creative analytical thinking about health and healthcare in an increasingly complex worldone in which seemingly straightforward beliefs and decisions about individual and communal health represent increasingly contested terrain.

The online essays for allKeywordstitles can be found here: keywords.nyupress.org

Sari Altschuler (Editor)
Sari Altschuleris Associate Professor of English and the founding director of Health, Humanities, and Society at Northeastern University. She is the author ofThe Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States.

Jonathan M. Metzl (Editor)
Jonathan M. Metzlis the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. His books includeThe Protest Psychosis: How SchizophrenlC