The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities - Paperback

by Scott Slovic (Editor), Swarnalatha Rangarajan (Editor), Vidya Sarveswaran (Editor)

Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book:

- Represents the first collection to bring the environmental humanities and medical humanities into conversation in a systematic way
- Features contributions from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives including literary studies, environmental ethics and philosophy, cultural history and sociology
- Adopts a truly global approach, examining contexts including, but not limited to, North America, the UK, Africa, Latin America, South Asia, Turkey and East Asia
- Touches on issues and approaches such as narrative medicine, ecoprecarity, toxicity, mental health, and contaminated environments.

Showcasing and surveying a rich spectrum of issues and methodologies, this book looks not only at where research currently is at the intersection of these two important fields, but also at where it is going.

Author Biography

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.