The first full-length study to bring together the practice of health and medical humanities in the field of German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars in both fields and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two disciplines. As well as surveying the current critical terrain in unparalleled depth, it also looks forward and explores future directions that these fields may take. Organized around seven sections representing key areas of focus for both disciplines, this book provides important new insights into the intersections between Health and Medical Humanities and other fields of inquiry that have been gaining prominence over the past decade in academic and public discourse. It considers disability studies, critical race studies, gender/embodiment studies, trauma studies, as well as animal/environmental studies.>

This book is as innovative as promised and will start to fill a yawning chasm of interest. The time for health humanities in German Studies is now.

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Stephanie Hilger is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. In addition, she holds appointments in the European Union Center, French, and Gender and Women's Studies. Since 2021, she has also been affiliated with the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine.

Inhalt
Foreword Stefani Engelstein Boundaries and Interdisciplines: Where Health Humanities Meets Literature & Science in German Studies Introduction Stephanie M. Hilger Intersections: Health Humanities and German Studies PART I: Medical Readings/Reading Medicine Katharina Fürholzer Verschlungen sitze ich / neben der Sprache: Aphasic Poetry between Medicine and Metaphor Anita Wohlmann and Katharina Bahlmann The Totality Trap of Reading Illness: Unica Zürn's The House of Illnesses Amanda Sheffer Dr. Max Liebermann's Vienna: Diagnosis, Gender, and Criminality in Historical Crime Fiction Madalina Meirosu Teaching Outbreak Narratives during the COVID Pandemic PART II: Graphic Medicine Marina Rauchenbacher Comics from the German-Language Realm and Health Humanities: An Overview Katja Herges Disability and Embodiment in Contemporary German Comics Priscilla Layne Drawing on Pain: Depicting Disability and Trauma in Mikael Ross' Graphic Novel Der Umfall Elizabeth Nijdam Thinking in Comics: Representing Autism Spectrum Disorder in Autobiographical Graphic Narrative PART III: Disability Anne Waldschmidt Disability = Behinderung? The Conceptual History of a Social Category in Germany from a Disability Studies Perspective Heidi Hausse A New View of an Old Prosthesis: Creating a Digital 3D Model of a Sixteenth-Century Iron Hand Heike Bartel Rewriting Illness from the Turkish German Margins: Eating Disorders in Narratives by Renan Demirkan and Yade Yasemin Önder Alec Cattell Teaching at the Intersection of German Studies and Disability Studies PART IV: Race Gabi Kathöfer Work, Disability, Race: Toward an Intersectional, Unsettling Analysis of German Settler Colonialism Julia Roos The Post-1945 Eugenics Consensus and the Persecution of Germans of Color in the Third Reich: A Legal Case Study Heikki Lempa Tea, Race, and Ethnicity: Medical Knowledge of the Others in the German Lands, 1700-1830 PART V: Gender Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio Suspicious Body Parts and Endangered Femininity: Western Medical Knowledge about Female Genitalia and Practices of Genital Cutting in the Early Modern Age Benjamin R. Davis Establishing a New Order?: Queer Performativity, Embodied Precarity, and the Pathologization of the Transgressive Body in Melusine (1456) and Fortunatus (1509) Joela Jacobs and Bastian Lasse Making Intersex Identity ILLegible: Oskar Panizza's Ein scandalöser Fall Necia Chronister Reading as a Trans-Corporeal Act PART VI: Trauma Eleoma Bodammer Death by Despair: Destroying Health in Schiller's Die Räuber Allison Schmidt The Bodies Kept the Score: Two Case Studies on Health and Violence after the Great War Anke Pinkert Refracting War Violence: Psychiatric Discourse in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the Early East German State PART VII: Animals and the Environment Brian McInnis The Animals among Humankind: Fables of Reason in Johann August Unzer's Medical Weekly Der Arzt Nicole Thesz Dangerous Bodies: Witches in German Fairy Tales and the Literary Imagination Davina Höll Vollkommene Organismen: The Beginnings of a Literary Imagination of the Microbiome