Index

Samantha Allen Wright (William Penn University, USA)

American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion

ISBN: 978-1-83909-673-0, eISBN: 978-1-83909-672-3

Publication date: 16 June 2020

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Wright, S.A. (2020), "Index", American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 169-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-672-320201009

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Copyright © 2020 Samantha Allen Wright


INDEX

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate footnotes.

Ableism
, 10, 45, 85, 101, 103–104, 107, 111, 118, 145

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
, 1, 68, 90n4, 90–91, 94, 96, 108

American illness narratives
, 21–23

American life writing
, 2, 4–5, 23–24

quest narrative
, 6–7

American literature
, 2, 68, 70

American media response
, 112–113

American memoir
, 70

American Plague (see Yellow fever)

American polio epidemics
, 73

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
, 48n6

Ashe, Arthur
, 3, 16, 19, 91, 93–98, 106–109

Autism
, 77n8

Autobiographical writing about illness
, 21–22

Autobiography
, 7, 14–15, 27–28, 30–33, 85, 136

AVERT
, 91

Bell Jar, the (1963)
, 65

Biomedical culture
, 3

Breast cancer
, 77n8

Bushmeat
, 123–124

Celebrity illness
, 92–94

Celebrity memoirs
, 19, 85

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
, 90, 154

Chaos narratives
, 6, 57–59, 149

Cholera
, 21, 24–25

Chronic illness
, 109–113

City of Philadelphia
, 30

College of Physicians of Philadelphia
, 30

Contagion
, 12, 15, 43, 69, 90, 116–117, 123, 138, 156

Contemporary illness
, 72

Conversation narratives
, 7

Couser, Thomas
, 25–28, 74, 77n8, 81, 84–85

Crip theory
, 91, 91n5, 103–109

Critical medical humanities
, 2–3, 8–9, 13, 45–46, 65, 86, 94, 109, 136, 154–155

Critical race theory (CRT)
, 91n5, 104–109

Cuevavirus
, 120n6

Currie, William
, 27, 29–30

Currie’s text
, 37

Days of Grace (Ashe)
, 19–20, 91, 93–98, 107–108

Deafness
, 77n8

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
, 140

Depression
, 77n8

Dianlovirus
, 120n6

Diphtheria
, 21

Disability
, 16–17, 42, 48

Ebola
, 137–141

memoirs
, 72

scholars
, 9

Disability in Pale Horse
, 59–65

Disability studies (DS)
, 8–11, 13, 46, 103, 105–107

Disability Studies Reader, The (Davis)
, 111

Disability Visibility Project
, 155

Disability/illness divide
, 109–113

Disciplinary divide
, 10

Discrimination
, 10, 17, 97

Disease

Ebola
, 137–141

epidemic
, 1

Zoonotic
, 139n19

Disease/disability binary
, 10–11, 43, 48

Doctor memoirs
, 34

Doctor’s narratives
, 30–35

Early American life writing
, 25–30

quest narrative and polio’s link to
, 70–73

Ebola
, 20, 112–113, 115n1, 115–118

hemorrhagic fever
, 132

history
, 119–125

illness narratives
, 126–137

modern-day freak shows and
, 137–141

outbreak
, 115n2

Ebola virus (EBOV)
, 132

Ebola Virus Disease
, 115, 120

Ebolavirus
, 120n6

Epidemic(s)

disease
, 1, 3, 11, 13–14, 21, 23–24, 41, 71, 90

social media and
, 150–154

FDR
, 73n5, 77, 77n9, 78n10

Fear-bola
, 116–117

Frank, Arthur W.
, 6–7, 14–15, 56–59, 67, 71–75, 86, 148–149

Freakshows
, 20

Gay cancer
, 90

Gay-related immune deficiency
, 90

Guillain-Barré syndrome
, 150

Hantavirus
, 125, 135

“Healthy disabled” category
, 111

Hong Kong flu (see Influenza pandemic of 1918)

Hot Zone, the (1994)
, 20, 117–118, 127–129, 129n14, 132–137, 135n16, 141, 143

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
, 23, 89–91, 90n4, 96, 98, 109–113

Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)
, 2, 19–20, 77n8, 84, 96, 109, 117, 146

celebrity illness
, 92–94

Crip theory
, 104–109

critical race theory
, 104–109

Days of Grace
, 91, 93–98

interdisciplinary connections
, 99–104

memoirs
, 12

Illness
, 16–17, 41–42

exclusion
, 43

life writing
, 3–7

memoirs
, 6, 19

in Pale Horse
, 59–65

stories
, 14–15

writing
, 23–24

Illness narratives
, 3–7, 5n4, 85

definitions
, 14–16

early American life writing
, 25–30

future of
, 7–14

“Pale Horse, Pale Rider”
, 44–48

proliferation
, 68

social media as
, 146–150, 154–155

Infection
, 15, 25, 50, 62, 89

Influenza
, 21, 56, 113

Influenza epidemic of 1918
, 1–2, 18, 48–53, 59–61, 65, 69

Institutionalization
, 10

Interdisciplinary approach
, 13

Interdisciplinary connections of HIV/AIDS
, 99–104

Interdisciplinary epidemics
, 2–17

Kaplan, Louis
, 31, 73

Kaplan’s bibliography
, 31n4

Kehret, Peg
, 3, 16, 19, 69–71, 76, 78, 80–81, 92, 155

Kehret’s memoir
, 81–84

Keller, Helen
, 75

Kleinman, Arthur
, 2, 14–15, 17, 44–45

Kleinman’s text
, 44–45

Leper
, 12

Life writing
, 14, 22

Literary postmodernity
, 13

Makona strain
, 135

Malaria
, 21

Marburg
, 120n6, 121, 128n13, 130–131

Marburg Virus Disease
, 117n4

Marburgvirus
, 120n6

Measles
, 21, 150, 152–153

Medical education
, 8

Medical humanities
, 2–3, 8–11, 13, 103, 154–155

Medical model of disability
, 9–10, 17, 112

Memoir
, 4–6, 27–28, 74

American
, 70

boom
, 5, 5n2

celebrity
, 19, 85

disability
, 72

doctor
, 34

HIV/AIDS
, 12

illness
, 6, 19

Kehret’s
, 81–84

polio
, 6n5, 67–68, 76–77

spiritual
, 5

Militant gays
, 95–96, 108

Misinformation crisis
, 126–137

Mitchell, David T.
, 42, 63

Modernism
, 2–3, 53–54

Mumps
, 21

My Place to Stand (Plagemann)
, 74–75, 78–84

Narrative fragmentation
, 54

National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)
, 31

National Geographic
, 139–141

1918 pandemic (see Influenza epidemic of 1918)

Nobody memoirs
, 81–82

“Noon Wine”
, 43n3

“Old Mortality”
, 43n3

Ong, Walter
, 28–29

Outbreak (1995)
, 115, 126–127

Outbreak narrative
, 15, 134–135

“Pale Horse, Pale Rider”
, 18–19, 43n3, 43–44, 67, 70, 77, 147

disability and illness in
, 59–65

illness narratives
, 44–48

as modernist illness narrative
, 52–59

1918 influenza pandemic
, 48–52

Pandemic
, 18, 46–47, 49–50, 52, 58, 60–61

Pathography
, 5n4, 5–7, 15–16, 52

Patient–practitioner interactions
, 8

Plagemann, Bentz
, 3, 16, 69–70, 74–75, 77–84, 92

Plagemann’s memoir
, 79n12, 81–84

Plague
, 21

Polio
, 1, 19, 23, 67–69, 89

epidemics
, 67

memoirs
, 6n5, 67–68, 76–77

My Place to Stand
, 78–84

narratives
, 11, 68–70, 73–78, 85–86

quest narrative and polio’s link to Early American life writing
, 70–73

Small Steps
, 78–84

Porter, Katherine Anne
, 3, 16, 18–19, 43, 50, 53–56, 58–59, 61–64, 92, 147

Post-polio syndrome (PPS)
, 76n7

Preston, Richard
, 126–137

Puritan redemption narratives
, 3

Queer theory
, 91, 91n5, 104

Quest narrative
, 6–7

and polio’s link to Early American life writing
, 70–73

Racial inequality
, 97

Rampersad, Arnold
, 3, 16, 91, 95

Restitution narrative
, 6

Rheumatism
, 62, 62n19

Rhizome theory
, 53n14

Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith
, 54, 57, 146–149

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
, 19, 71, 73, 77, 92

Rush, Benjamin
, 25, 30, 32–35, 37–38

Rush’s autobiography
, 30, 32, 34, 37

Scarlet fever
, 21

Sick person
, 17

Sisters of Saint Mary at Memphis
, 29–30, 35–38

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Kehret)
, 76, 78–84

Smallpox
, 1, 21n1, 21–22, 24–25, 39

Snyder, Sharon L.
, 42, 63

Social constructionist analyses of disability
, 111

Social media
, 20, 143–145

and epidemics
, 150–154

as illness narratives
, 146–150, 154–155

Social model of disability
, 9–10, 111

Spanish flu (see Influenza epidemic of 1918)

Spiritual memoirs
, 5

Spiritual narratives
, 4–5

Stigma
, 17

Stigma Project
, 102

Storytelling
, 144–145

Sudan virus (SUDV)
, 132

Survivor
, 17

Swine flu pandemic
, 51

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland
, 20, 118, 137–138, 140–141

Trump, Donald
, 115, 119–120, 123, 125–126, 141, 150

Twitter
, 146–147

2014–2016 Ebola crisis
, 117–118, 126, 128, 137–138, 141, 143

2014–2016 Ebola epidemic
, 121–122, 129

2014–2016 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak
, 115, 117

Typhus
, 21

“Unhealthy disabled” category
, 111

Vaughan, Victor
, 25–26, 31, 33–35, 37–38, 77, 138–139

Victim
, 17

Warm Springs
, 77n9, 82

Wendell, Susan
, 10, 91–92, 111–112

West African Ebola epidemic
, 112–113

West African Ebola outbreaks
, 20

Whooping cough
, 21

Woolf, Virginia
, 41–42, 56

World Health Organization (WHO)
, 121, 150–151

World War I
, 1, 18, 43, 50–52, 60

World War II
, 1, 70, 73–75, 78

Writing Contagion
, 2–3, 7, 10–11, 16, 18

Xenophobia
, 67

Yellow fever
, 2, 21–23

accounts
, 35–38

doctor’s narratives
, 30–35

early American life writing
, 25–30

epidemics
, 18

history
, 23–25

Zika epidemic
, 150

Zika virus
, 150–152

Zoonotic diseases
, 139n19