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Working Group: Global Health Humanities

This set of essays from the Global Health Humanities Working Group includes two explorations, by Gregg Mitman and Alvan Ikoku, of the troubled imbrications of “Africa” in the historical development and visual imaginary of global health. Two fascinating and moving personal essays from the Breath | Body| Voice conference by Juan Obarrio and Alan Bleakley that jnspire a new, holistic way of thinking about health, illness, and memory. It also proposes new ways of thinking and new forms of publishing with comic illustrations (“The Health Humanities and the Future of Publishing” by Craig Klugman) and a think piece that is made up entirely of drawings (“Frames of Thought” by Nick Sousanis).

Theorizing the Emergence of Global Health Humanities is convened by Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies & Global Health / Franklin Humanities Institute) and Kearsley “Karrie” Stewart (Duke Global Health Humanities). * Image: Little Crippled Haiti (2006) by Edouard Duval Carrié.

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  • A Liberian Journey

    — Gregg Mitman —

  • Douglas Bleakley, father of Alan Bleakley, behind the wheel of a Jaguar c.1946

    Don’t Breathe a Word: A Psychoanalysis of Medicine’s Inflations

    — Alan Bleakley —

  • Frames of Thought

    — Nick Sousanis —

  • Global Health & Comparative Literature: Perspectives from HIV in South Africa

    — Alvan Ikoku —

  • Health, Illness, and Memory

    — Juan Obarrio —

  • Comic by Craig Klugman

    The Health Humanities and the Future of Publishing

    — Craig Klugman —

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    Theorizing the Emergence of Global Health Humanities

    — April 9, 2015 —

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    Global Health Humanities: A View from Africa

    — November 3, 2015 —

  • Gregg Mitman | Forgotten Paths of Empire

    — February 26, 2016 —

  • Future Trends in Health Humanities Publishing and Pedagogy

    — March 22, 2018 —

  • Asian Health Humanities

    — May 19, 2018 —

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    Corinna Treitel | Response to Holly Tucker Keynote

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    Craig Klugman: Future Trends in Health Humanities Publishing and Pedagogy

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    Elsa Friis | Response to Holly Tucker Keynote

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    Holly Tucker | Medical Humanities, Global Health Humanities

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    Neurodiversities | Cate I. Reilly: Cruel Translation: Psychoanalysis and Worlding

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    Neurodiversities | Deborah Jenson: Flaubert’s Brain: Epilepsy, Mimesis, and Injured-Self Narrative

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    Neurodiversities | Nima Bassiri: Disordered Conduct and the Moral Economy of Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century

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    Rebecca Messbarger | Response to Holly Tucker Keynote

  • Alan Bleakley Portrait

    Alan Bleakley

    — Plymouth University Peninsula School of Medicine, UK —

  • Alvan Ikoku

    — Stanford University —

  • Craig Klugman

    — DePaul University —

  • Gregg Mitman

    — University of Wisconsin-Madison —

  • Juan Obarrio

    — Johns Hopkins University —

  • Nick Sousanis

    — San Francisco State University —

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