{"product_id":"the-bloomsbury-handbook-to-the-medical-environmental-humanities-paperback","title":"The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eScott Slovic\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSwarnalatha Rangarajan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eVidya Sarveswaran\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing 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: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e- Represents the first collection to bring the environmental humanities and medical humanities into conversation in a systematic way\u003cbr\u003e- Features contributions from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives including literary studies, environmental ethics and philosophy, cultural history and sociology \u003cbr\u003e- 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 \u003cbr\u003e- Touches on issues and approaches such as narrative medicine, ecoprecarity, toxicity, mental health, and contaminated environments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eShowcasing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScott Slovic\u003c\/b\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication\u003c\/i\u003e (with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran). His forthcoming books include \u003ci\u003eNature in Literary Studies (\u003c\/i\u003ecoedited with Peter Remien) for Cambridge University Press's Critical Concepts Series. He coedits \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Environmental Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e with Joni Adamson and Yuki Masami.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSwarnalatha Rangarajan \u003c\/b\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eEcoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003eEcocriticism of the Global South \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) (with Scott Slovic and Vidya Sarveswaran) and is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eFinal Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). She served as the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Journal of Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e and has guest-edited two special issues on Indian ecosophy for \u003ci\u003eThe Trumpeter\u003c\/i\u003e. Her monograph\u003ci\u003e Ecocriticism: Big Ideas and Practical Solutions\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 2018. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVidya Sarveswaran\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEcocriticism of the Global South\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 426\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45448325824591,"sku":"9781350304543","price":111.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/H0R51ExduR9781350304543.webp?v=1780483995","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/the-bloomsbury-handbook-to-the-medical-environmental-humanities-paperback","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}