{"title":"Are We Ever Really Recovered?","authors":"Gianna Paniagua","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a911443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a911443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"41 1","pages":"51-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140863141","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":"Better Medicine: Shared Suffering and Chronic Vulnerability in Brian Teare's <i>The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven</i>.","authors":"Tana Jean Welch","doi":"10.1353/lm.2023.a911448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a911448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A posthumanist understanding of the body does not view \"illness\" and \"health\" as properties of the individual body, but as emergent features of the relationships between bodies. As such, a relational view of health opens up avenues for the betterment of both human bodies and their social and physical environments. Drawing on posthumanism and the ethics of vulnerability, this article demonstrates how Brian Teare's The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven (2015) provides a different way of thinking (and doing) illness, death, and vulnerability. With his acceptance and promotion of the body's dynamic materiality and chronic vulnerability, Teare advances a posthuman ethics based on our shared embodied condition.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"41 1","pages":"145-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140871517","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":"Is Burnout the New Nostalgia?","authors":"Kim Adams","doi":"10.1353/lm.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"40 1","pages":"167 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48158448","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":"A Pump Is the Dream of Starting Over, and: Asparagus","authors":"Adam Dickinson","doi":"10.1353/lm.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"40 1","pages":"21 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44247886","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":"Note on Front Matter","authors":"Michael Blackie","doi":"10.1353/lm.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"A February 2022 World Health Organization news release estimates that through just one of its global response initiatives some \"87,000 tonnes of personal protective equipment . . . was procured between March 2020 [and] November 2021,\" most of which \"ended up as waste. On one level, I take some measure of reassurance when I see a mask of any kind littering the street because it means someone took seriously the public health benefits of wearing it. \"Tonnes of COVID-19 Health Care Waste Expose Urgent Need to Improve Waste Management Systems.\"","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"40 1","pages":"3 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45643849","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":"(Un)triggering Anorexia: A Cognitive Literary Analysis of Lia \"the Liar\" in <i>Wintergirls</i> (2009).","authors":"Rocío Riestra-Camacho","doi":"10.1353/lm.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The importance of authorial intention has been debated extensively in literary studies. In cognitive literary studies, however, the effects books provoke in readers are of greater relevance. With an unreliable intradiegetic narrator, ambivalent about her denial of hunger, Wintergirls (2009), a US YA anorexia novel, embodies the spiraling network of lies that feeds this condition. This essay takes Wintergirls as a starting point to discuss the therapeutic or harmful effects of literature, over and above the intentions of the writer. Adopting a cognitive literary perspective, this essay proposes the concept of an \"unreliable reader,\" and uses that concept to demonstrate that the novel has a self-triggering potential to reinforce anorexia. This is an unusual approach, inasmuch as it runs counter to previous positive literary criticism of Wintergirls, but it is a perspective in urgent need of reconsideration for the sake of disordered readers.</p>","PeriodicalId":44538,"journal":{"name":"LITERATURE AND MEDICINE","volume":"40 1","pages":"77-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40514995","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}