Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics (Routledge Studies in Health Humanities)

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Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword
	Note
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intersecting Narratives of Planetary Thought and Pandemics
	Points of Departure: Planetary Health Humanities
	Pandemics and Planetary Health Terminologies: The Anthropocene Predicament
		Critical Approaches to Global Health
		From the Anthropocene Predicament to Planetary Medicine(s)
	Reimagining Pandemics Through the Planetary: Untidy Histories, Representations, and Technologies
	Colonial Twinning, the “Pandemic Milieu,” and Narratives of Planetary Health
		A Decolonial Poetics
		The Planetary Subject in the “Pandemic Milieu”
		Planetary Health Narratives
	Notes
	References
Section A Pandemic Anxieties and Historical Genealogies of Planetary Health
	1 “So Spreading and Penetrating a Disease”: Margaret Cavendish’s Imaginative Landscapes of Plague
		Beyond the Enlightenment: Cavendish’s Feminist Genealogy of the Planetary
		Cavendish On Plague, the Human Body, and Infinite Variety
		Natural Philosophy, Multidisciplinarity, and Cavendish’s Ethos of Continual Revision
		The Limitations of Technology, the Merits of Metaphor, and the Impossibility of a Panacea for Plague
		From the Ravages of Plague to the Rejuvenations of Nature and Narrative
		Notes
		References
	2 Lactination: Planetary Bodies and Their Fluid Encounters in the Early Vaccination Narrative
		Taking in the Animalized Other: The Cultural Appropriation of Immunization
		Mammalia: Milk’s Agency in Eighteenth-Century Continental Science
		The Udder and the Breast: Early Depictions of the Cowpox Pustule
		Body Feeding: Transcorporeality in the Vaccination Process
		Notes
		References
	3 Mobilizing Health Between the Global and the Planetary: Apollo 11, Airstream, and NASA’s Planetary Quarantine Program
		Back Contamination and the Development of NASA’s Planetary Quarantine Program
		Quarantine in Motion
		Airstream Trailers: Aluminum Ambassadors of American Modernity
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
Section B Reading Planetary Health Narratives: Epistemology, Theory, and Practice
	4 Decolonial Epi-Pathographies of Planetary Health: Tragedy, Policy, Art
		Oracular Knowledge and Planetary Medicine
		Prophecy and Planetary Health Policy
		Decolonial Epi-Pathographies and Planetary Health Commons
		Notes
		References
	5 Little COVID-19, All Grown Up in the Planetary: Reconsidering Health Humanities Instrumentalism in the COVID-19 Pandemic
		The Health Humanities, Instrumentalism, and COVID
		Creative Writing During the Dysbiosis: Who Needs Evidence?
		Notes
		References
	6 Tiger Symmetries: Pandemic as Gift
		Notes
		References
	7 Historicizing Planetary Health Policy: Health Work and Wages Across Global and Planetary Health
		Introduction
		Locating Planetary Health
		Recycling Community Health: Historicizing Planetary Health Actors
		Financial Grammars of Debt, Work, and Value in Planetary Health
		Ethnography and the Value of Health Labor
		Conclusion: Refiguring Global and Planetary Health
		Notes
		References
Section C Pandemic Ontologies, Body Politics, and a Planetary Health Commons
	8 Contagious Bodies: A Pandemic of Racism
		The Anthropocene: A Point of Departure
		Colonialism and COVID-19
		Contagious Others
		Twin Pandemics: Racism and COVID-19
		From the “Yellow Peril” to the War On Terror
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	9 #Zoombies: Cybernetic Trance in Pandemic Times
		Devotional Compulsion
		The Sacred Rectangle
		The Waning of Peripheral Awareness
		The (In)effectiveness of Rituals
		Affective Dis/possession
		#Hypnocene
		Coda
		Notes
		References
	10 Planetary Health (In)humanities: Disordering the Colony Collapse
		Technologies of Mapping, the “Natural” World, and Epidemics
		Colony Collapse Disorder, Expertise, and Data Regimes
		BeeHero: Surveilling the Nonhuman
		Mapping Nonhumans During the (In)Human
		Conclusion: Planetary Health (In)humanities
		Notes
		References
	11 Narrating the Uncanny Triad: Imagining Microbe, Animal, and Human Entanglements Within the Planetary Health Humanities
		Introduction
		The Pandemic Triad, Past and Present
			Microbes
			Animals
			Humans
		Reimagining the Pandemic Triad With the Planetary Uncanny: Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island
		Conclusion: Planetary Health Humanities Beyond Anthropocentrism
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
	12 Entangled Humanism and Impersonal Circuits of Imperial Power: An Interview With William E. Connolly By Heike Härting and Heather Meek
		References
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