Global healing : literature, advocacy, care /
"In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and e...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill Rodopi,
[2020]
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| Series: | Textxet, studies in comparative literature.
volume 92. |
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Table of Contents:
- Legacies of leprosy
- AIDS, national fear, literary production
- AIDS stigmas, fear, care
- Entr'acte: Confronting the Stigmas of Alzheimer's
- Contrasts in care
- Speaking for, not with
- Medically treating, not healing
- Interventions in dying
- Promoting partnerships in living, sharing care
- Providing partnerships in dying, easing death.