Literature, Medicine, Health

Volume 19 Number 2


Literature-Medicine-Health

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

  • CLARE BARKER

POETRY

  • SIMON ARMITAGE, Finishing It
  • MADELEINE LEE, small bites
  • KATHY JETÑIL-KIJINER, Monster

FICTION

  • AVAES MOHAMMAD, Four Steps to Immunity

ARTICLES

  • GRAHAM MATTHEWS, Cancer Narratives in Singapore: Uncertainty and Risk in the Medical Encounter
  • AMY RUSHTON, On the Back of a Hyena: Depression and the (Post-)Colonial Context in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body
  • FRANCES HEMSLEY, Epidemic narratives of the Rwandan genocide: Health, memory, and testimony in Marie Béatrice Umutesi’s Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
  • EMILY KATE TIMMS, ‘Everything is a Search for Light’: Indigenous Ageing and the Future of Intergenerational Wellbeing in Patricia Grace’s Chappy
  • MICHELLE CHIANG, What Can We Learn from Stories of the Dying?: Narrative Extensions and the Absurdity of Being ‘Terminal’
  • CLARE BARKER, Biocolonial Fictions: Medical Ethics and New Extinction Discourse in Contemporary Biopiracy Narratives
  • KATHERINE STORM HINDLEY, Hippocrates the Fool: Faith and Healing in Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail
  • VERONICA BARNSLEY, Midwives and Witches: Reproductive Health, Rights, and Development in Amma Darko’s The Housemaid
  • MICHELLE KEOWN, 'Give birth to nightmares’: The Marshallese Nuclear Legacyand Women’s Health in Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s ‘Monster’

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS