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Record Nr.

UNINA9910835057803321

Autore

Welch Tana Jean

Titolo

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry / / by Tana Jean Welch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031498886

3031498887

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, , 2634-6443

Disciplina

808.1

Soggetti

Poetry

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Medicine and the humanities

Medical ethics

Science - History

Poetry and Poetics

Contemporary Literature

Medical Humanities

Medical Ethics

History of Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. “Poems are Bodies that Remind Us We Have Bodies”—Poetry, Medical Posthumanism, and Ethical Practice -- 2. Entangled Species / Entangled Health: The Inclusive Poetics of Juliana Spahr -- 3. Health Inequity, Structural Racism, and The Trans-Corporeal Ethics of Claudia Rankine’s Investigative Poetics -- 4. Shared Suffering and Chronic Vulnerability in the Poetry of Brian Teare -- 5. Global Health Equity, Community Building, and the Innovative Poetics of Hong and Perez -- 6. Conclusion: Affirmative Medicine: Queer Figurations and Porous Boundaries.

Sommario/riassunto

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century



American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a posthuman-affirmative ethics within the culture of medical practice. This book makes a case for a posthumanist understanding of the body—one that sees health and illness not as properties possessed by individual bodies, but as processes that connect bodies to their social and natural environment, shaping their capacity to act, think, and feel. Tana Jean Welch demonstrates how contemporary American poetry is specifically poised to develop a pathway toward a posthuman intervention in biomedicine, the field of medical humanities, medical discourse, and the value systems that guide U.S. healthcare in general. Tana Jean Welch is a poet and scholar of medical humanities and contemporary American poetry. She is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the Florida State University College of Medicine where she teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities and serves as Director of the Chapman Humanities and Arts in Medicine Program. Her critical work has been published in MELUS, The Journal of Ecocriticism, Literature and Medicine, and Academic Medicine. She is also the author of the poetry collections In Parachutes Descending (2024) and Latest Volcano (2016). .