This book focuses on health humanities in application. The field reflects many intellectual interests and practical applications, serving researchers, educators, students, health care practitioners, and community members wherever health and wellness and the humanities intersect. How we implement health humanities forms the core approach, and perspectives are global, including North America, Africa, Europe, and India. Emphasizing key developments in health humanities, the book’s chapters examine applications, including reproductive health policy and arts‑based research methods, black feminist approaches to health humanities pedagogy, artistic expressions of lived experience of the coronavirus, narratives of repair and re‑articulation and creativity, cultural competency in physician‑patient communication through dance, embodied dance practice as knowing and healing, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, eye tracking, ableism and disability, rethinking expertise in disability justice, disability and the Global South, coronavirus and Indian politics, visual storytelling in graphic medicine, and medical progress and racism in graphic fiction.
Author(s): Christian Riegel, Katherine M. Robinson
Series: Sustainable Development Goals Series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 334
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: What Does It Mean to Do the Health Humanities in Application?
Health, Humanities, and Application
Situating Health Humanities: Family Resemblances
Application and Health Humanities
References
Chapter 2: Mapping Reproductive Health Policy Using Arts-Based Research Methods: A Model of Pedagogical Transgression
Introduction
Literature Review
Intersectionality
Arts-Based Research
Performance as a Pedagogical Tool
Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
Context and Overview of the Learning Activity
The Assignment: Performance and Written Portfolio
In-Class Role-Play
Written Portfolio
Methods
Findings
Choosing to Not Choose, or Bravely Choosing to Stay: Opt-Outs and Outliers
Opt-Outs: The Choice Not to Engage with a Pro-Choice Topic
“Being Brave:” Focusing on the Pros of “Pro-Life”
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Black Feminist Field Notes: On Designing an Undergraduate, Online, Health Humanities Course in Women’s and Gender Studies
Introduction
Feminist Health Humanities: A Definitional Framework and Notes on Pedagogy
Feminist Health Humanities: Course Description and Overview
Fulfilling Writing Across the Curriculum Requirements
Fulfilling Multicultural U.S. Diversity Core Curriculum Requirements
Student Learning Objectives
UToledo Student Population Demographics
Notes on Teaching Feminist Health Humanities Topics Through the Covid-19 Pandemic and Multiple Socio-Political Crises
Cultural Images and Digital Media Examples in Feminist Health Humanities Pedagogy
A Sampling of Thematic Units, Discussion Board Prompts, and Exemplary Learner Posts
Gendered and Racial Constructions in the History of Modern Science and Medicine
Exemplary Learner Post
Disability, Personal Illness Life-Writing, and Narrative Medicine
Exemplary Learner Post
Medical Ethics: Historical Case Studies and Global Human Rights Perspectives
Exemplary Learner Post
Illness, Disease, and Cultural Representation
Exemplary Learner Post
Health, Heteronormativity, and LGBTQIA Inclusivity
Exemplary Learner Post
Radical Self-Care and Healing Justice Frameworks
Exemplary Learner Post
Learning from Students, Building Community Online, and Cultivating Transferrable Skills
Reflections for Course Design, Minors/Majors, and Programme Development
Appendix
References
Chapter 4: Viral Pedagogical Narratives: Artistic Expressions of Living During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Introduction
Viral Imaginations: A Teaching Platform Initiated in Pandemic Times
Vignettes on Creating Just-in-Time Pandemic Pedagogy Resources
Vignette: Innovating Physically Distanced In-Person, Hybrid, and Virtual Pedagogy
Vignette: Fostering Collective Healing
Vignettes on Curating as Visual Analysis Pedagogy
Vignette: Examining Pandemic Realities of Sustainability Needs—Care, Water, Food, Shelter, and Cost
Vignette: Identifying Bioethical Themes in Pandemic Art
Poetry and the Pandemic
Vignette: Building Community, Empathy, and Agency Through Poetry in Pandemic Pedagogy
Assignment Objectives
Assignment Design
Vignette: Assessing the Generative Impact of Viral Imaginations
Conclusion: Viral Imaginations Health Humanities in Application
References
Chapter 5: Narratives of Repair and the Re-articulation of the Pained Self: A Study in Painscapes
Introduction
References
Chapter 6: Exploring Cultural Dance as a Medium for Improving Cross-Cultural Communication in Medicine: The Aseemkala Model
Introduction
Defining Cultural Awareness
Elements of Traditional Dance: Building an Equitable Framework for Identifying Cultural Values
Literature Review on Dance as a Healthcare Tool
Traditional Dance Exchanges: A New Applied Health Humanities Teaching Tool
Framework
Case Study: Caryānṛtya (Caryā Dance) of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Introduction of the Dance Form
History, Basics, and Performance Rituals
How Caryā Dance Illustrates our Critical Framework
Case Study: Bharatanāṭyam of India
Introduction of the Dance Form
How Bharatanāṭyam Illustrates Our Critical Framework
Conclusion and Future Directions
References
Chapter 7: Deep Flow: A Tentacular Worlding of Embodied Dance Practice, Knowing, and Healing
Introduction
Phenomenological Research Practice
Tentacular Worlding: Performative Phenomenologies
Practice as Research
R-Reflexivity
Doing a Phenomenology
Performative Phenomenology
Methods of Artistic Research Practice
Embodied Dance Practice
The Full Drop
Doing a Phenomenology of Dance
Dwelling
Listening
Direct Experiencing
Deep Flow Practice
Qualitative and Quantitative Data Collections Methods
Verbal Feedback
Visual Imagery
Movement Hieroglyphs
Figuring-Figures
Interpretation of the Verbal Feedback
Quantitative Data Collection and Interpretation
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity, and Health Humanities: Eye Tracking, Ableism, Disability, and Art Creation
Introduction: Health Humanities and Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity
Transdisciplinarity
Eye Tracker Art Creation
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Listen, Play, Learn: Rethinking Expertise and Collaboration in the Field of Disability Support Services
Introduction
A Brief Word on Audience and Style
Background
Improvisation to Facilitate Change
Nothing About Us Without Us
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Deconstructing Disability from a Global South Perspective: Examples from an Interpretive Phenomenological Study
Introduction
Tracing the Evolving Definition of Disability in the Global Context
Models of Disability
The Medical Model of Disability
The Social Model of Disability
The Moral/Religious Model of Disability
Defining Disability in the Ghanaian Perspective: Linguistic Challenges
Citizenship Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Ghana
Social Citizenship of Persons with Disabilities in Ghana
Economic Citizenship of Persons with Disabilities
Conclusion
Note
References
Chapter 11: The Networked Human: Coronavirus, Facebook, and Indian Politics
Introduction
Theoretical Discussion
Facebook and the Politicization of COVID-19 Patient Bodies: A Case Study
Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: On the Use of Encapsulation, Parity, and Visual Storytelling in Graphic Medicine
Introduction
Social Media and Storytelling
Health Humanities and Graphic Medicine
Comprehension and Mental Models
Sample Small Story and Conclusion
References
Chapter 13: Medical Progress, Health, and the Chronic Disease of Racism in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Introduction
Health Humanities, Race, and the Graphic Novel
Staying Healthy, Staying Alive: Racism in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Black Body, Race, and Future in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Conclusion
References
Index
