Routledge Studies in Health Humanities
Pandemic Health and Fitness
1st Edition
By Sabina M. Perrino, Joshua O. Reno
July 30, 2025
This book adopts an innovative approach in exploring the evolution of fitness practices among a community of gym goers amid a global pandemic, considering its impact on the interplay of the words, habits, and relationships gym goers use in realizing their aspirations of wellness and well-being. ...
Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics
1st Edition
Edited
By Heike Härting, Heather Meek
July 30, 2025
This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health. Rather than conflating the planetary with anthropogenic climate change, planetary geo-engineering, or the "global," the volume elaborates a ...
Global Health in the Global North: Techno-Optimism and the Value of Storytelling for the Future of Health Equity
1st Edition
By Steven P. Black
June 16, 2025
This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the self-described “global health capital” Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures. The volume highlights ...
Cultural Representations of Queer Aging in Spain
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Jerónimo, Raquel Medina
June 01, 2025
This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for ...
Language, Pharmacy and Society: The Sounds of Local Knowledges and the Linguistic Logistics of Science
1st Edition
By Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
May 12, 2025
This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and culture. Gonzalez Rodriguez charts the ...
The Social, Aesthetic, and Medical Implications of Performing Shame: Interdisciplinary Approaches
1st Edition
By Marlene Goldman
October 09, 2024
Performing Shame shows how simulations of shame by North American writers and artists have the power to resist its withering influence. Chapter 1 analyses the projects’ key terms: shame, performance, and empathy. Chapter 2 probes the book’s key terms in light of a real-world study of an "empathy ...
The Languages of COVID-19: Translational and Multilingual Perspectives on Global Healthcare
1st Edition
Edited
By Piotr Blumczynski, Steven Wilson
August 26, 2024
This collection advocates languages-based, translational research to be part of the partnerships and collaborations required to make sense of, and respond to, COVID-19 as one of the major global challenges of our time. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines,...