{"product_id":"queer-interventions-in-biomedicine-and-public-health-hardcover","title":"Queer Interventions in Biomedicine and Public Health - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Garden\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWilliam J. Spurlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides an overview on critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary and cultural studies in order to theorize productive engagements between the clinical and cultural aspects of biomedical knowledge and practice. The essays in this volume historicize and theorize diagnosis, particularly diagnosis that impacts trans health and sexuality, queer health and identity, and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV\/AIDS. The chapters also address racialization, disability, and colonialism through discussions of fiction, film, critical memoir, and comics in relation to biomedical discourse and knowledge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreviously published in \u003ci\u003eJournal of Medical Humanitie\u003c\/i\u003es Volume 40, issue 1, March 2019\u003cbr\u003eChapter \"Queer Theory and Biomedical Practice: The Biomedicalization of Sexuality\/The Cultural Politics of Biomedicine\" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides an overview on critical healing, which draws on queer theory, disability studies, postcolonial theory, and literary and cultural studies in order to theorize productive engagements between the clinical and cultural aspects of biomedical knowledge and practice. The essays in this volume historicize and theorize diagnosis, particularly diagnosis that impacts trans health and sexuality, queer health and identity, and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV\/AIDS. The chapters also address racialization, disability, and colonialism through discussions of fiction, film, critical memoir, and comics in relation to biomedical discourse and knowledge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreviously published in \u003ci\u003eJournal of Medical Humanitie\u003c\/i\u003es Volume 40, issue 1, March 2019 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChapter \"Queer Theory and Biomedical Practice: The Biomedicalization of Sexuality\/The Cultural Politics of Biomedicine\" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Garden, PhD, is Associate Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Executive Director for the Consortium for Culture and Medicine. She brings health humanities and disability studies perspectives to bear on healthcare and public health pedagogy and practice, focusing on disability, chronic illness, and aging, as well as racism and immigration. She has published in \u003ci\u003eNew Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterature and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of General Internal Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDisability Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Clinical Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Medical Humanities\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in the volumes The Encyclopedia of Health Humanities, Keywords in Disability Studies, and \u003ci\u003eThe Health Humanities Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eWilliam J Spurlin, Ph.D., is Honorary Professor of English \u0026amp; Comparative Literature and Professor Emeritus in the College of Business, Arts \u0026amp; Social Sciences at Brunel University London. He has written extensively on the politics of gender and sexual dissidence across francophone, Germanic, and African contexts; he is widely known for his work in postcolonial queer studies and for examining sexuality as a significant vector of social organisation and cultural arrangement in colonial and postcolonial Africa, particularly addressing the ways in which western medicine became a tool of European imperial power. Professor Spurlin's most recent book \u003ci\u003eContested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2022; his other books include \u003ci\u003eLost Intimacies: Rethinking Homosexuality under National Socialism\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and \u003ci\u003eImperialism within the Margins: Queer Representation and the Politics of Culture in Southern Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (2006). He has also published in medical humanities on sexuality, health, and HIV\/AIDS in postcolonial contexts and on queer translation studies in several journals, including the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Medical Humanities and Comparative Literature Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. He was named Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences in 2017 in recognition of the contribution of his research in queer studies to social science scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 68\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42173123788935,"sku":"9783031296765","price":161.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/10ca7e347ac83675c6fedf4fc34d429f.webp?v=1733365240","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/queer-interventions-in-biomedicine-and-public-health-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}