Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities

Scott Slovic is University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities and has been teaching at the University of Idaho, USA, since 2012—previously he was a professor at Texas State University and the University of Nevada, Reno. He served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 he has edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment for ASLE and Oxford University Press. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of twenty-seven books, including, most recently, The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication (with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran). His forthcoming books include Nature in Literary Studies (coedited with Peter Remien) for Cambridge University Press’s Critical Concepts Series. He coedits Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Routledge Environmental Humanities with Joni Adamson and Yuki Masami.Swarnalatha Rangarajan is Associate Professor of English and has been teaching at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras since 2010. Previously, she was a Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University and a Charles Wallace Fellow at Cambridge University. She has coedited such books as Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism (2014) and Ecocriticism of the Global South (2015) (with Scott Slovic and Vidya Sarveswaran) and is the author of the novel Final Instructions (2015). She served as the founding editor of The Indian Journal of Ecocriticism and has guest-edited two special issues on Indian ecosophy for The Trumpeter. Her monograph Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Solutions appeared in 2018.Vidya Sarveswaran is Professor of English and has been teaching at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur since 2012. Before that she taught for thirteen years at Ethiraj College for Women in Chennai. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2008-09, and in 2016 she was a Rachel Carson Fellow at the University of Munich. As mentioned above, she coedited Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development, Ecocriticism of the Global South, and The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication with Scott Slovic and Swarnalatha Rangarajan. She is also a documentary filmmaker and has recently been completing a film that documents ecological narratives in Rajasthan.

The first of its kind at the intersection of the titular fields, is a timely and welcome contribution to bridge the gap between medical, environmental, and literary-cultural studies. ... the medical-environmental humanities have its new reference guide for graduate students and scholars in the field.

• 1. Acknowledgments 2. Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, Introduction Part 1. Conceptualizing Convergence: Econarratology and Narrative Medicine, Graphic Medicine and Environmental Texts, Virology, Grey Ecology, and Ecopsychology3. Eric Morel, Narrative Knowing and Narrative Practice4. Mita Banerjee, Black Lives Matter in Flint, Michigan5. Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Chinmay Murali, Graphic Medicine, Ecological Consciousness6. Maria Whiteman, Fungi Umwelt7. Z. Gizem Yilmaz Karahan, Contagious History8. Lars Schmeink, The Grey Ecology of Zombie Fiction9. Tathagata Som, Climate Change and Grief10. Samantha Walton, Eco-Recovery Memoir and the Medical Environmental HumanitiesPart 2. Environmental Toxicity and Public Health11. Sofia Varino, Pathogenic (Auto)Ecologies 12. Robin Chen-hsing Tsai, Toward an Ethics of Transcorporeality and Public Health in Taiwanese Ecopathodocumentary13. Heather Leigh Ramos, Resisting Slow Violence, Environmental Toxins, and Systemic Racism14. Kathryn Yalan Chang, 'Reframing Care’ in the Age of a Novel Corona Virus15. Nikoleta Zampaki, Poetry and Art in the Age of AnthropocenePart 3. Varieties of Entanglement: Landscapes, Bodyscapes, Micro- and Macro-biota16. Susanne Lettow, Health, Disease, and the Body in Ecofeminist Theory17. Jorge Marcone, A Gut Feeling18. Henry Obi Ajumeze, Performing Damaged Land/Body-scape in the Niger Delta19. Chia-ju Chang, Pathological Mimesis and Buddhist Phármakon in the Anthropocene Pandemic20. Françoise Besson, Fighting the Spread of Disease through Words21. Animesh Roy, From the Clinical to the EcoculturalPart 4. Exemplifying Specific Cultural Approaches to the Convergences of Environment, Health, and the Arts22. Raghul V. Rajan, Ayurvedic Vision on Health and Environment23. Animesh Mohapatra and Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Health and Hygiene Discourses in the Early Twentieth Century24. Marcos Colón, (Un)sustainable Ecology25. Chinonye Ekwueme-Ugwu, Nature and Traditional Medicine in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God and Things Fall Apart26. Kiu-wai Chu, The Tales of Chinese Herbs27. John Charles Ryan, ‘Into the Sap Stream’28. Fazila Derya Agis, Turkish Classical Songs’ Lyrics and Related Idioms for a Literary Therapy for Curing Ecodepression29. Tess Maginess, Expressing Concepts of Environment through Concepts of Madness in Some Irish Literature30. Epilogue: Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our Planet Scott Slovic, You Don’t Know What You Got ‘Til It’s GoneSwarnalatha Rangarajan, The Gasping Turtle and Other Hypoxia Narratives: Prana in a Threatened WorldVidya Sarveswaran, Dying to Breathe