1st Edition
Bodies in Transition in the Health Humanities Representations of Corporeality
1 Acknowledgments
2 Foreword
Rebecca Garden
3 Introduction:
Bodies and Transitions in the Health Humanities
Lisa M. DeTora and Stephanie M. Hilger
Part I: Medical Models, Charts, and Institutional Narratives
4 Enlightened Wax Works:
Viewing the Anatomical Woman in the Viennese Josephinum
Angelika Vybiral
5 Epistemological Anxiety: The Case of Michel-Anne Drouart
Stephanie M. Hilger
6 Charting Intersex: Intersex Life-Writing and the Medical Record
Katelyn Dykstra
7 Narrating Sex Change in Iran: Transsexuality and the Politics of Documentary Film
Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi
8 Isolated Bodies, Isolated Spaces: Anorexia and Bulimia in Women’s Autobiographical Narratives
Barbara Grüning
Part II: Invasive Influences and Corporeal Integrity
9Unseen Enemies: Neisseria, Desire, and Bodily Discourse
Lisa M. DeTora
10The Human Papillomavirus Vaccination:
Gendering the Rhetorics of Immunization in Public Health Discourses
Jennifer A. Malkowski
11 Bacteriology and Modernity:
Phenomenology, Bio-Politics, Ontology
Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
12 Being-in-Alien: The Trinity of Bodies in Prometheus (2012) and Alien: Covenant (2017)
Adnan Mahmutovic and Denise Ask Nunes
Part III: Aging, Decline, and Death
13 Embodied Transitions in Michel de Montaigne
Nora Martin Peterson and Peter Martin
14 Witnessing Illness: Phenomenology of Photographic Self Portraiture
Elizabeth Lanphier
15 Disjunction and Relationality in Terminal Illness Writing
Yianna Liatsos
16 Afterword
Representation as a Lens:
Teaching and Researching in the Health Humanities
Carl Fisher
Biography
Stephanie Hilger is Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Women Write Back (2009) and Gender and Genre (2015). She is also the (co)-editor of New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies (2017) and The Early History of Embodied Cognition (2015).
Lisa M. DeTora is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and Director of STEM Writing at Hofstra University. She has published widely on scientific and medical affairs and the medical humanities. In addition, she is the editor of Heroes of Film, Comics, and American Culture (2009) and Regulatory Writing: An Overview (2017).
