Health Humanities in Application

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: What Does It Mean to Do the Health Humanities in Application?

   • Christian Riegel, Katherine M. Robinson

   Pages 1-15Open Access

3. Mapping Reproductive Health Policy Using Arts-Based Research Methods: A Model of Pedagogical Transgression

   • Angie Mejia, Danniella Balangoy

   Pages 17-42

4. Black Feminist Field Notes: On Designing an Undergraduate, Online, Health Humanities Course in Women’s and Gender Studies

   • Rachel Dudley

   Pages 43-73

5. Viral Pedagogical Narratives: Artistic Expressions of Living During the COVID-19 Pandemic

   • Karen Keifer-Boyd, Michele Mekel, Lauren Stetz

   Pages 75-102

6. Narratives of Repair and the Re-articulation of the Pained Self: A Study in Painscapes

   • Tea Gerbeza

   Pages 103-122

7. Exploring Cultural Dance as a Medium for Improving Cross-Cultural Communication in Medicine: The Aseemkala Model

   • Shilpa Darivemula, Moondil Jahan, Lindsay Winters, Ruta Sachin Uttarkar

   Pages 123-152

8. Deep Flow: A Tentacular Worlding of Embodied Dance Practice, Knowing, and Healing

   • Jeannette Ginslov

   Pages 153-173

9. Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity, and Health Humanities: Eye Tracking, Ableism, Disability, and Art Creation

   • Christian Riegel, Katherine M. Robinson

   Pages 175-193Open Access

10. Listen, Play, Learn: Rethinking Expertise and Collaboration in the Field of Disability Support Services

    • Myles Himmelreich, Michelle Stewart

    Pages 195-222

11. Deconstructing Disability from a Global South Perspective: Examples from an Interpretive Phenomenological Study

    • Festus Yaw Moasun

    Pages 223-246

12. The Networked Human: Coronavirus, Facebook, and Indian Politics

    • Rimi Nandy, Agnibha Banerjee, Santosh Kumar

    Pages 247-263

13. On the Use of Encapsulation, Parity, and Visual Storytelling in Graphic Medicine

    • Spencer Barnes

    Pages 265-286

14. Medical Progress, Health, and the Chronic Disease of Racism in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

    • Tatiana Konrad

    Pages 287-318

15. Back Matter

    Pages 319-328

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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.

• Literature, Science and Medicine Studies
• health humanities
• graphic medicine
• narrative medicine
• literature and medicine
• Humanities applications
• Literature and Disability Studies
• Disability Studies
• Creativity

“In this ambitious collection, a diverse range of inclusive and international authors and practitioners offer a visionary approach to existing and emerging Health Humanities applications, making compelling case as to how the arts and humanities knowledge and practices can inform and transform healthcare, health and well-being. Through an intersection of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary lenses, this book traverses the organic nature of the Health Humanities as an evolving intellectual pursuit with ever-expanding practical applications. The collection’s scholarly contributions are further strengthened through innovative research paths that range from pedagogical applications of the health humanities to the creative process, to disability and ableism, social media and health, and graphic medicine. Despite the eclectic range of disparate approaches, the essays are inextricably bound by the social, cultural, and historical complexity of health as it affects individuals and societies.” (Nat Hardy, Ph.D., M.F.A, F.R.S.A. Division Head, Humanities and Liberal Arts Florida National University)

• Department of English, Campion College, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

  Christian Riegel

• Department of Psychology, Campion College, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

  Katherine M. Robinson

Christian Riegel is Professor of Health Humanities and English at Campion College at the University of Regina. They are a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) in the United Kingdom. Among their books are Writing Grief: Margaret Laurence and the Work of Mourning, Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning, and Twenty‑First Century Canadian Writers. They are coordinator of the certificate program in health and medical humanities at the University of Regina.

Katherine M. Robinson is Professor of Psychology at Campion College at the University of Regina and graduate chair of the experimental and applied psychology program, University of Regina. They are a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA) in the United Kingdom. They specialize in mathematical cognition, the psychology of evil, and eye tracker computer game design for data collection. They recently published Mathematical Learning and Cognition in Early Childhood Education: Integrating Interdisciplinary Research into Practice.