Bodies in a Broken World: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine

by Ann Folwell Stanford

Book Overview

In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.S. women of color to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice, arguing that personal health and social justice are inextricably linked. Drawing on feminist ethics to explore the work of eleven novelists, Stanford challenges medicine to position itself more deeply within the communities it serves, especially the poor and marginalized. However, she also argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807854808
• ISBN13: 9780807854808
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Bodies in a Broken World

This is a very thoughfull and well researched book. Very Helpful in understanding what is happening in medicine and poverty in our world today.

Wonderful book

I really enjoyed this book. If you're interested in Race,Class, and Gender studies within the context of Colonialism and it's impact on Western Medicine, this book is for you. It's original in the sense that the author uses well written and popular fiction books by famous women of color novelists. She looks at popular works such as Beloved, Bluest Eye, Salt Eater and Almanac of the Dead by analysing them within the context of the politics of medicine and history of oppression in Western Society. It's and engaging brilliant piece of work that I simply could not put down. Anyone who is a practitioner of Medicine (physicians as well as psychiatrists and pscyhoanalysts) who is sincerely interested in understanding the social impacts of institutionalized racism within Western Medical world will enjoy this work.