The Bloomsbury Handbook To The Medical Environmental Humanities

Author : Scott Slovic,Swarnalatha Rangarajan,Vidya Sarveswaran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350197329

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities by Scott Slovic,Swarnalatha Rangarajan,Vidya Sarveswaran Pdf

Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book: · Represents the first collection to bring the environmental humanities and medical humanities into conversation in a systematic way · Features contributions from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives including literary studies, environmental ethics and philosophy, cultural history and sociology · Adopts a truly global approach, examining contexts including, but not limited to, North America, the UK, Africa, Latin America, South Asia, Turkey and East Asia · Touches on issues and approaches such as narrative medicine, ecoprecarity, toxicity, mental health, and contaminated environments. Showcasing and surveying a rich spectrum of issues and methodologies, this book looks not only at where research currently is at the intersection of these two important fields, but also at where it is going.

Author : Bleakley Alan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351241755

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Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities by Bleakley Alan Pdf

This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other. Composed of eight parts, the Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities looks at the medical humanities as: a network and system therapeutic provocation forms of resistance a way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum concerned with performance and narrative mediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement. This book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings, acting as a point of resistance, redistributing medicine’s capital amongst its stakeholders, embracing the complexity of medical instances, shaping medical education, promoting interdisciplinary understandings and recognising an identity for the medical humanities as a network effect. This book is an essential read for all students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in the medical humanities.

Author : Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Jacob Wamberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350090484

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen,Jacob Wamberg Pdf

As our ideas of the human have come under increasing challenges – from technological change, from medical advances, from the existential threat of climate crisis, from an ideological decentering of the human, amongst many other things – the 'posthuman' has become an increasingly central topic in the Humanities. Bringing together leading scholars from across the world and a wide range of disciplines, this is the most comprehensive available survey of cutting edge contemporary scholarship on posthumanism in literature, culture and theory. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism explores: - Central critical concepts and approaches, including transhumanism, new materialism and the Anthropocene - Ethical perspectives on ecology, race, gender and disability - Technology, from data and artificial intelligence to medicine and genetics - A wide range of genres and forms, from literary and science fiction, through film, television and music, to comics, video games and social media.

Author : Sanne Krogh Groth,Holger Schulze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501338809

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art by Sanne Krogh Groth,Holger Schulze Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the decolonization and deinstitutionalization around the making of sound. Within the areas of musicology, art history, and, later, sound studies, Sound Art has evolved at least since the 1980s into a turbulant field of academic critique and aesthetic analysis. Summoning artists, researchers, curators, and critics, this volume takes note of and reflects the most recent shifts and drifts in Sound Art--rooted in sonic histories and implying future trajectories.

Author : Sabine Wilke,Japhet Johnstone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501307768

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Readings in the Anthropocene by Sabine Wilke,Japhet Johnstone Pdf

Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years from a perspective that is mindful of the challenge posed by the concept of the Anthropocene. This new age of man, unofficially pronounced in 2000, holds that humans are becoming a geological force in shaping the Earth's future. Among the biggest challenges facing our future are climate change, accelerated species loss, and a radical transformation of land use. What are the historical, philosophical, cultural, literary, and artistic responses to this new concept? The essays in this volume bring German culture to bear on what it means to live in the Anthropocene from a historical, ethical, and aesthetic perspective.

Author : Julian Stern,Christopher A. Sink,Wong Ping Ho,Malgorzata Walejko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350162174

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness by Julian Stern,Christopher A. Sink,Wong Ping Ho,Malgorzata Walejko Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness is the first major account integrating research on solitude, silence and loneliness from across academic disciplines and across the lifespan. The editors explore how being alone – in its different forms, positive and negative, as solitude, silence and loneliness – is learned and developed, and how it is experienced in childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. Philosophical, psychological, historical, cultural and religious issues are addressed by distinguished scholars from Europe, North and Latin America, and Asia.

Author : Adam Sowards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781851099108

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United States West Coast by Adam Sowards Pdf

The most up-to-date and insightful overview available on the environmental history of the West Coast of the United States, a region of extraordinary physical beauty distinguished by its inhabitants' efforts to both sustain and exploit their natural resources. Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, United States West Coast: An Environmental History explores the interplay of ecology, economy, and culture throughout the history of the region of North America where the waters drain to the Pacific Ocean. Synthesizing the most recent and insightful studies on the region, United States West Coast portrays environmental change in the far western United States from the emergence of humans in the Pacific Northwest (about 12,000 years ago), to the rise of European colonial trade networks, to the era of industrialization and urbanization, to present day activism and public policy responses to environmental damage. By investigating how humans interact with their nonhuman surroundings across a specific expanse that encompasses all kinds of landscapes, cultures, and commercial enterprises, this insightful volume shows just how interdependent the relationship between people and their environment is.

Author : Robert H.. Friis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : 0313386005

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The Praeger Handbook of Environmental Health by Robert H.. Friis Pdf

Author : Laura Hobgood,Whitney Bauman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350046832

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature by Laura Hobgood,Whitney Bauman Pdf

Divided into four parts-Earth, Air, Fire, and Water-this book takes an elemental approach to the study of religion and ecology. It reflects recent theoretical and methodological developments in this field which seek to understand the ways that ideas and matter, minds and bodies exist together within an immanent frame of reference. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature focuses on how these matters materialize in the world around us, thereby addressing key topics in this area of study. The editors provide an extensive introduction to the book, as well as useful introductions to each of its parts. The volume's international contributors are drawn from the USA, South Africa, Netherlands, Norway, Indonesia, and South Korea, and offer a variety of perspectives, voices, cultural settings, and geographical locales. This handbook shows that human concern and engagement with material existence is present in all sectors of the global community, regardless of religious tradition. It challenges the traditional methodological approach of comparative religion, and argues that globalization renders a comparative religious approach to the environment insufficient.

Author : Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350012813

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory by Jeffrey R. Di Leo Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of theory in the 21st century. With chapters written by the world's leading scholars in their field, this book explores the latest thinking in traditional schools such as feminist, Marxist, historicist, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial criticism and new areas of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, materialism, and many other fields. In addition, the book includes a substantial A-to-Z compendium of key words and important thinkers in contemporary theory, making this an essential resource for scholars of literary and cultural theory at all levels.

Author : Ken Hyland,Brian Paltridge,Lillian Wong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350156098

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis by Ken Hyland,Brian Paltridge,Lillian Wong Pdf

An essential reference to contemporary discourse studies, this handbook offers a rigorous and systematic overview of the field, covering the key methods, research topics and new directions. Fully updated and revised throughout to take account of developments over the last decade, in particular the innovations in digital communication and new media, this second edition features: · New coverage of the discourse of media, multimedia, social media, politeness, ageing and English as lingua franca · Updated coverage across all chapters, including conversation analysis, spoken discourse, news discourse, intercultural communication, computer mediated communication and identity · An expanded glossary of key terms Identifying and describing the central concepts and theories associated with discourse and its main branches of study, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis makes a sustained and compelling argument concerning the nature and influence of discourse and is an essential resource for anyone interested in the field.

Author : Mary Anna Evans,J.C. Bernthal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350212480

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie by Mary Anna Evans,J.C. Bernthal Pdf

Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical / Biography The first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory, feminism, crime and the state, and more. It addresses a broad selection of Christie's crime novels, as well as her short stories, literary novels written pseudonymously, and her own and others' dramatic adaptations for television, film, and the stage. Featuring unprecedented access to images and content held in Christie's personal archive, as well as a Foreword from renowned crime fiction writer Val McDermid, this is essential reading for anyone interested in Christie's work and legacy.

Author : Laura A. White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350091580

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Ecospectrality by Laura A. White Pdf

Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels. Analysing novels from across the world-including Australia, Nigeria, South Africa, India, and Jamaica, this book explores how these ghosts can help readers to perceive difficult-to-visualise environmental threats and access marginalised environmental knowledge. Instead of prompting fear, these hauntings foster understanding across species and generations to enable inclusive formulations of environmental justice. Drawing on the latest work in postcolonial ecocriticism, hauntology, and environmental philosophy and such literary texts as GraceLand, No Telephone to Heaven, The Rock Alphabet, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Ecospectrality is an essential read for anyone working in the environmental humanities today.

Author : Joseph Tabbi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474230254

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature by Joseph Tabbi Pdf

"Covering foundational theory, new media contexts and digital creative practice and with chapters by leading international scholars, this is the first authoritative reference handbook to the field of electronic literature"--

Author : Xinmin Liu,Peter I-min Huang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781793647603

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Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing by Xinmin Liu,Peter I-min Huang Pdf

Embodied Memories, Embedded Healing foregrounds the East Asian cultural beliefs and practices that shape the environmental consciousness of the twenty-first century. In highlighting such influences, this anthology also foregrounds the closely related new and exciting directions in ecocriticism.