Health Humanities in Application

by Christian Riegel (Editor), Katherine M. Robinson (Editor)

This book focuses on health humanities in application. The field reflects many intellectual interests and practical applications, serving researchers, educators, students, health care practitioners, and community members wherever health and wellness and the humanities intersect. How we implement health humanities forms the core approach, and perspectives are global, including North America, Africa, Europe, and India. Emphasizing key developments in health humanities, the book’s chapters examine applications, including reproductive health policy and arts‑based research methods, black feminist approaches to health humanities pedagogy, artistic expressions of lived experience of the coronavirus, narratives of repair and re‑articulation and creativity, cultural competency in physician‑patient communication through dance, embodied dance practice as knowing and healing, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, eye tracking, ableism and disability, rethinking expertise in disability justice, disability and the Global South, coronavirus and Indian politics, visual storytelling in graphic medicine, and medical progress and racism in graphic fiction.

341 pages, Hardcover

Published February 23, 2023

About the author

Dr. Christian Riegel is a professor of Health Humanities and English at the University of Regina, specializing in Canadian literature, medical humanities, Holocaust writing, and creative writing. His work has appeared in literary magazines such as Grain, Flood Quarterly, Gaspereau Review, and New Delta Review. He is also co-director of the Interactive Media, Poetics, Aesthetics, Cognition, and Technology (IMPACT) Lab, which focuses on interdisciplinary research involving eye tracking technology, digital tools, and disability studies.
His research explores themes of mourning and memorial in Canadian literature, and he has received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), he has edited several scholarly volumes, including Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning and Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence. His articles have appeared in Mosaic, Forum for World Literature Studies, and Body, Space, Technology Journal.