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Literature, Medicine, and Culture

Body Wisdom

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Literature, Medicine, and Culture

Body Wisdom

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Literature, Medicine, and Culture: Body Wisdom, through an examination of literature, intervenes into contemporary debates on care by positioning it as a matter of attunement or resonance. It explores how writers coping with illness and disability challenge myths of control in inventive and resilient ways. The author discusses this adaptive resilience, or “body wisdom,” and traces its expression through twentieth and twenty-first century texts.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
1. Facing War: Walt Whitman and Simone Weil
2. Pragmatism and Care: William Carlos Williams and John Dewey
3. Violence and Vulnerability in Flannery O'Connor
4. Care and the Uncanny in Nancy Mairs
5. Reframing Dementia: Graphic Care in Dana Walrath and Sarah Leavitt
6. The Practice of the Everyday in the Literature of Nursing
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jan 08 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9781666949193
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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