Covid-19 in India, disease, health and culture can wellness be far behind? / edited by Nilanjana Chatterjee, and Anindita Chatterjee.
| Other author | Chatterjee, Nilanjana. |
| Other author | Chatterjee, Anindita. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge contemporary South Asia series; 154 |
| Contents | Can Wellness be Far Behind?: Disease, Health and Culture / Anindita Chatterjee & Nilanjana Chatterjee -- Section I Social Science Perspective -- Colonialism and Disease: Smallpox in the Aboriginal Population / Bill Ashcroft -- Vaccine Nation and its Miserables: Bodies and Bio-citizenship in the Empire / Mandira Mitra -- Spaces of Cure or Confinement? Inside the walls of the Mental Asylums of the 19th Century / Anindita Chatterjee -- ¿ưi¿¿ek's Pandemic!, the 'New Normal' Dilemma and Some Indian Perspectives / Anasuya Bhar -- Livelihood of Internal Migrants of India during Covid-19 Pandemic: Concerns and Measures / Debasis Charaborty -- Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination during a Pandemic: A Special Reference to India / Chitra Roy -- Hate in the Times of Covid-19: Can we Blame the Print Media in India? / Rumela Sen & Nusrat Farooq -- Neo Liberal Turn in The Domain of Health Care: The Emergence of Corporate Health Care Sector in India / Amrita Bagchi -- Section II Cultural Perspective -- Disease and the Desire for Health in Shakespeare's Macbeth / Subhajit Sen Gupta -- Their Mother's Gardens: Epidemic, Healing and Motherhood in Year of Wonders and Hamnet / Chandrima Das -- "stand aside death...today is my day": Contextualizing the Naga Esotericism in Easterine Kire's Novels / Nilanjana Chatterjee -- Dis-ease, Dis-order and the Refugee Experience: Appraising South Asian Partition Narratives / Debasri Basu -- Always in Search of her Ithaca: Women's Spiritual Wellbeing in Journey to Ithaca: A Pilgrimage in Search of Identity and Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything / Nibedita Mukherjee -- Disjunctured Subjectivities and Corporeal Well-being: Issues of Mobility and Health in Select Transgender Life Narratives from India / Rajesh V. Nair & Lekshmi R. Nair -- Sustainable Eating and Wellness: Examining Nutrition Strategies in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year Of Seasonal Eating and Ruth Ozeki's A Year Of Meats / Shymasree Basu -- Disease, Wellbeing, and the Idea of Health in Select Cinematic Representations of the Macbeth Metaphor / Anuradha Mazumder. |
| Abstract | "This book is a cultural exploration of health and wellness, with a focus on impacts of Covid-19 on the population of India. The chapters in this book present original research, systematic reviews, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, encompassing multidisciplinary, inter- and intra-disciplinary fields of study, in the context of how culture and disease sufficiently unpack and inform each other. The book includes contributions from the social sciences and the humanities and analyses issues that range from smallpox to the history of vaccine, indigenous healing practices, the Macbeth paradigm, Zizekian encounters, mental asylum, and marginalised genders. Using the theme of intellectual interconnectedness in the times of self-isolation and social distancing, the book is a collaboration of critical thinkers who identify and visibilize the hidden global issues related to 'disease' and 'health' that have divided the world into narrow binaries - individual/society, poor/rich, proletariat/bourgeoisie, margin/centre, colonised/coloniser, servitude/liberty, powerless/powerful. By doing so, the book emphasises the potential of holistic wellness to improve human life and humanity across the globe. A novel contribution on the cultural factors that played an important role in contemporary times of Covid-19, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Cultural Studies, Health and Society and South Asian Studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022020397 |
| ISBN | 9781032292687 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032292700 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |