The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities

The first of its kind at the intersection of the titular fields, is a timely and welcome contribution to bridge the gap between medical, environmental, and literary-cultural studies. ... the medical-environmental humanities have its new reference guide for graduate students and scholars in the field. * Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment *
This volume proves an invaluable addition to the study of narrative medicine and public health, and the links between the clinical and the ecocultural. With a fascinating array of cultures and approaches, the essays offer a full-belly intervention into the field. * Journal of Ecohumanism *
This collection offers a crucial intervention at an urgent time. The pandemic has driven home the inseparability of human health and environmental health. The first to bring together the medical and environmental humanities in a global conversation, this book outlines how we might better align the health of the planet with the health of human minds and bodies. -- Sarah Jaquette Ray, Professor and Chair of Environmental Studies, Humboldt State University, USA, and author of 'A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet'
Located at a crucial juncture in the precarious age when ‘health’ – of individuals, communities and the planet – is at risk, this volume defines the future of academic work in environmental and medical-health humanities. Mapping debates and methodologies across literary-cultural studies, this is an indispensable exploration as to the importance of human and nonhuman lives. -- Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad India, author of 'Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic' and 'Ecoprecarity'

Together, the dozens of fascinating and insightful essays included in Slovic, Rangarajan, and Sarveswaran’s Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities do much more than explore convergences between two closely related yet seldom intersecting fields. They additionally chart timely and welcome paths for news ways of engaging with global challenges – including pandemics and climate disruption – that are becoming only more severe.

-- Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, USA, author of 'Ecoambiguity' and 'Global Healing'