Şima İmşir is an assistant professor in Comparative Literature at Koç University. Her teaching and research ranges from medical and health humanities, illness and literature to comparative modernisms, gender and postcolonial studies.

• IntroductionChapter One: Who is Inside? Who is Outside? Limits of the Healthy and Sturdy NationChapter Two: The Making of the Healthy Woman: Halide Edib and the Politics of MedicineChapter Three: Almost a Man, But Not Quite: Medicine and Gender in MelodramaChapter Four: Adhered to the Flesh: Lived Bodies in Modernist Literature after 1960Epilogue

Şima İmşir is an assistant professor in Comparative Literature at Koç University. Her teaching and research ranges from medical and health humanities, illness and literature to comparative modernisms, gender and postcolonial studies.

• IntroductionChapter One: Who is Inside? Who is Outside? Limits of the Healthy and Sturdy NationChapter Two: The Making of the Healthy Woman: Halide Edib and the Politics of MedicineChapter Three: Almost a Man, But Not Quite: Medicine and Gender in MelodramaChapter Four: Adhered to the Flesh: Lived Bodies in Modernist Literature after 1960Epilogue

Şima İmşir is an assistant professor in Comparative Literature at Koç University. Her teaching and research ranges from medical and health humanities, illness and literature to comparative modernisms, gender and postcolonial studies.

• IntroductionChapter One: Who is Inside? Who is Outside? Limits of the Healthy and Sturdy NationChapter Two: The Making of the Healthy Woman: Halide Edib and the Politics of MedicineChapter Three: Almost a Man, But Not Quite: Medicine and Gender in MelodramaChapter Four: Adhered to the Flesh: Lived Bodies in Modernist Literature after 1960Epilogue