Michael Berubé, People with disabilities
Linda Hutcheon, Multidisciplinary work on culture and medicine
University of Illinois cultural historian Paula Treichler’s ongoing research has led her in fascinating directions. Her research on condoms grew out of her work on AIDS and its meanings, work that established her as a leading thinker on the body….
Sander L. Gilman on “obesity,” “epidemic,” “mental illness”
If you are interested in joining this blog’s conversations and would like to introduce yourself to other MLA scholars who are doing work in literature and medicine or humanities and health (or “medical humanities”), please use the comment feature of this post…
Although the MLA does not currently have a division or discussion group explicitly devoted to literature and medicine or medical humanities, many of us are working on representations of the body, sexuality, health, illness, disease and the health professions. Admittedly, the…
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