American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion

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Interdisciplinary Epidemics: Illness Narratives in American Literature, Disability Studies, and the Medical Humanities

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Citation: Wright, S.A. (2020), "Interdisciplinary Epidemics: Illness Narratives in American Literature, Disability Studies, and the Medical Humanities", American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-672-320201002

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Yellow Fever: Early American Illness Narratives (or the Lack Thereof)

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“Pale Horse, Pale Rider”: The Forgotten 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Role of Literature in Illness Narratives

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Citation: Wright, S.A. (2020), "“Pale Horse, Pale Rider”: The Forgotten 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Role of Literature in Illness Narratives", American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 41-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-672-320201004

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Mid-twentieth Century Polio Memoirs: The Beginnings of an Old Genre^*

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The Chronically Ill and Stigmatized Body: HIV and AIDS

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“Fear-bola”: Constructions of Contagion

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The Future of the Fields and of Twenty-first-century Illness Narratives

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References

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DOI

10.1108/9781839096723

Publication date

2020-06-16

Author

Samantha Allen Wright

ISBN

978-1-83909-673-0

eISBN

978-1-83909-672-3

American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion

Synopsis

Table of contents

Prelims

Interdisciplinary Epidemics: Illness Narratives in American Literature, Disability Studies, and the Medical Humanities

Yellow Fever: Early American Illness Narratives (or the Lack Thereof)

“Pale Horse, Pale Rider”: The Forgotten 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the Role of Literature in Illness Narratives

Mid-twentieth Century Polio Memoirs: The Beginnings of an Old Genre^*

The Chronically Ill and Stigmatized Body: HIV and AIDS

“Fear-bola”: Constructions of Contagion

The Future of the Fields and of Twenty-first-century Illness Narratives

References

Index

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