{"product_id":"keywords-for-health-humanities-9781479808106","title":"Keywords for Health Humanities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeywords for Health Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e provides 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePresenting possibilities for health justice and social change, this volume exposes readers--from curious beginners to cultural analysts, from medical students to health care practitioners of all fields--to 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, \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Health Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e guides readers toward ways to communicate accurately and effectively while engaging in creative analytical thinking about health and healthcare in an increasingly complex world--one in which seemingly straightforward beliefs and decisions about individual and communal health represent increasingly contested terrain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe online essays for all \u003ci\u003eKeywords \u003c\/i\u003etitles can be found here: keywords.nyupress.org\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSari Altschuler (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSari Altschuler\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English and the founding director of Health, Humanities, and Society at Northeastern University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan M. Metzl (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJonathan M. Metzl \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 include \u003ci\u003eThe Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProzac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgainst Health: How Health Became the New Morality\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePriscilla Wald (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePriscilla Wald \u003c\/b\u003eis R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English at Duke University and author of \u003ci\u003eContagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eConstituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509086032146,"sku":"9781479808106","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa69a353-7352-4376-9bc6-d65a8a6214a6.jpg?v=1730888050","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/keywords-for-health-humanities-9781479808106","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}