{"title":"Remembering Reparations: A Journey Through Structural Violence.","authors":"Jaheel Rowe","doi":"10.1353/lm.2025.a975540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2025.a975540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"43 1","pages":"29-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145702369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shame and Medicine: An Introduction.","authors":"Arthur Rose, Luna Dolezal","doi":"10.1353/lm.2025.a975542","DOIUrl":"10.1353/lm.2025.a975542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"43 1","pages":"47-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7618649/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145702409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Cell Lines\" and \"Syphilitics\": A Critical Investigation into Medical Racism, Rhetorical Dehumanization, and Health Genres.","authors":"Sara V Press","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay investigates rhetorical dehumanization in the US related to systemic racism, sexism, and classism. While I revisit well-known cases of medical exploitation in the stories of Henrietta Lacks and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, I examine them through a new lens by undertaking a rhetorical analysis of medical journal articles written on them, demonstrating how the genre of scientific writing, with its emphasis on objectivity and neutrality, mitigated concerns about the suffering and mortality of Black Americans and overlooked exploitation in the name of scientific advancement. I conclude with Christina Sharpe's In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, a text that, in contrast to the scientific writing I analyze, provides intimate insights into the lives of people who have been dehumanized by systemic racism.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"43 2","pages":"450-476"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148200444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Everything's Racist MLK Day.","authors":"Joel Christian Gill","doi":"10.1353/lm.2025.a975538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2025.a975538","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"43 1","pages":"18-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145702282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Passing the Torch, Carefully.","authors":"Travis Chi Wing Lau","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"43 2","pages":"279-281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148200449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heracles, Hyllus, and the Moral Dilemma of Voluntary Assisted Dying in Sophocles's <i>Trachiniae</i>.","authors":"Norman K Swazo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In classical Greece, philosophers and dramatists alike taught the requisites of ethics. This orientation makes it valuable to consider how a text like Sophocles's Trachiniae engages events that concern the hero Heracles, and specifically the manner of his death. The circumstances involve what today we call euthanasia, in this case voluntary active euthanasia as a result of Heracles's autonomous decision, but also assisted death insofar as Heracles's son Hyllus receives an imperative from his father. The discernible principles of morality in this play, perceived even through the normative ambiguity of the genre, speak strongly to contemporary bioethics discourse: That is, the tragic ethos of the Greek dramatists should not be dismissed from our deliberations.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"43 2","pages":"308-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148200407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forgetting Forwards: Film and the Weirdness of Trauma Research.","authors":"Catherine Belling","doi":"10.1353/lm.2025.a975537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2025.a975537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"43 1","pages":"5-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145702259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual Satire and Covid-19 in the Comics of Billingsley, Bell, and Obuobi.","authors":"Michael A Chaney","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay tracks how elements of satire and seriality are used across select examples of comics by Black-identified author-artists-Ray Billingsley's Curtis, Darrin Bell's Candorville, and diary comics and social media posts by Shirlene Obuobi, MD-to process the potential traumas related to the Covid-19 pandemic, medical racism, and antiblackness at the hospital. Forwarding the scholarship of Tina Campt, Rebecca Wanzo, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Linda Villarosa, Christina Sharpe, and others, I argue that despite their kaleidoscopic differences, the comic authors discussed variously picture racial barriers to medical care while reimagining healing so as to re-center Black people not only as sufferers but as authoritative sources of care. All three utilize formal properties unique to comics to prompt viewers to practice looking elsewhere, beyond dominant conventions of presenting Blackness as singular, stereotypical, or optically reducible.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"43 2","pages":"354-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148200415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}