Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Embodying Narratives in the Health Humanities and Literary Studies: An Introduction 1
5. Part I: Theorizing Embodied Health and Illness Narratives
6. 1 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Literary Fiction: Bridging Biomedical Sciences and Health Humanities 21
7. 2 The “Villainous Obstinacy and Ugliness” of “a Body of Facts”: The Creation of the Character of Alexis Saint-Martin by His Surgeon, Dr. William Beaumont 44
8. 3 The Material Turn of “Japs” in John Okada’s No-No Boy 66
9. Part II: Queering Embodied Health Narratives
10. 4 Vaccination, Pandemics, and Fear in the Now 93
11. 5 The Embodied Experience of Queer Moments: Crossing the Symptomatic Aesthetics of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Hervé Guibert, and David Wojnarowicz 115
12. 6 Positive Status/Positive Space: The Opportunity of Disclosure 139
13. Part III: Exploring Practice-Based Embodied Health Narratives
14. 7 Decolonial Feminist Acts of Health/Care in Senegalese Urban Arts 155
15. 8 “We Are Not Waiting”: When Patients Become Medical Innovators 170
16. 9 Embodied Books: Sensing Healthcare Experiences in Artists’ Books 191
17. 10 The Otherness of Fat: An Intersectional Psychotherapy Story 204
18. Afterword 221
19. Contributors 224
20. Index 230