The Health Humanities in German Studies

Cover
Contents
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Contributors
Foreword: Boundaries and Interdisci plines: Where Health Humanities Meets Literature & Science in German Studies Stefani Engelstein
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Intersections: Health Humanities and German Studies Stephanie M. Hilger
Part I Medical Readings/Reading Medicine
	1 “Verschlungen sitze ich/neben der Sprache”: Aphasic Poetry between Medicine and Metaphor Katharina Fürholzer
	2 The Totality Trap of Reading Illness: Unica Zürn’s The House of Illnesses Anita Wohlmann and Katharina Bahlmann
	3 Dr. Max Liebermann’s Vienna: Diagnosis, Gender, and Criminality in Historical Crime Fiction Amanda Sheffer
	4 Teaching “Outbreak Narratives” during the Covid Pandemic Madalina Meirosu
Part II Graphic Medicine
	5 Comics from the German-Language Realm and Health Humanities: An Overview Marina Rauchenbacher
	6 Disability and Embodiment in Contemporary German Comics Katja Herges
	7 Drawing on Pain: Depicting Disability and Trauma in Mikael Ross’ Graphic Novel Der Umfall Priscilla Layne
	8 “Thinking in Comics”: Representing Autism Spectrum Disorder in Autobiographical Graphic Narrative Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam
Part III Disability
	9 Disability = Behinderung? The Conceptual History of a Social Categoryin Germany from a Disability Studies Perspective Anne Waldschmidt
	10 A New View of an Old Prosthesis: Creating a Digital 3D Model of a Sixteenth-Century Iron Hand Heidi Hausse
	11 Rewriting Illness from the Turkish German Margins: Eating Disorders in Narratives by Renan Demirkan and Yade Yasemin Önder Heike Bartel
	12 Teaching at the Intersection of German Studies and Disability Studies Alec Cattell
Part IV Race
	13 Work, Disability, Race: Toward an Intersectional, “Unsettling” Analysis of German Settler Colonialism Gabi Kathöfer
	14 The Post-1945 Eugenics Consensus and the Persecution of Germans of Color in the Third Reich: A Legal Case Study Julia Roos
	15 Tea, Race, and Ethnicity: Medical Knowledge of the Others in the German Lands, 1700–1830 Heikki Lempa
Part V Gender
	16 Suspicious Body Parts and Endangered Femininity: Western Medical Knowledge about Female Genitalia and Practices of Genital Cutting in the Early Modern Age Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio
	17 Establishing a New Order? Queer Performativity, Embodied Precarity, and the Pathologization of the Transgressive Body in Melusine (1456) and Fortunatus (1509) Benjamin R. Davis
	18 Making Intersex Identity ILLegible: Oskar Panizza’s “Ein skandalöser Fall” Joela Jacobs and Bastian Lasse
	19 Reading as a Trans-Corporeal Act Necia Chronister
Part VI Trauma
	20 Death by Despair: Destroying Health in Schiller’s Die Räuber Eleoma Bodammer
	21 The Bodies Kept the Score: Two Case Studies on Health and Violence after the Great War Allison Schmidt
	22 Refracting War Violence: Psychiatric Discourse in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the Early East German State Anke Pinkert
Part VII Animals and the Environment
	23 The Animals among Humankind: Fables of Reason in Johann August Unzer’s Medical Weekly Der Arzt Brian McInnis
	24 Dangerous Bodies: Witches in German Fairy Tales and the Literary Imagination Nicole Thesz
	25 “Vollkommene Organismen:” The Beginnings of a Literary Imagination of the Microbiome Davina Höll
Index