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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thornber, Karen Laura (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]
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.