The Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities

This innovative handbook is a state-of-the-art of the intersection of health and environmental humanities, capturing its multidisciplinary creative spirit in showcasing key concepts and tools, on-the-ground innovations, and conversation pieces between established and emerging scholars.

The handbook captures the dynamism of the cross-disciplinary dialogue between these fields through a unique structure, one which blends the elements of a traditional handbook with interventions to reinforce conversations between scholars across these fields. The collection features short keyword pieces across three sections - Concepts and Themes; Tools and Methods; and Sites and Scales. Each of these sections also includes academic case studies and short pieces on creative work from practitioners and activists in these fields, bookended by ‘conversation’ pieces, in which two academics from these disciplines cover key issues and debates in their respective sections. Taken together, the volume offers a fresh approach to work at the intersection of health and environmental humanities, exploring concepts of shared importance between the fields, the latest scholarly developments, and the opportunities and challenges in bringing them together.

The handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars in health humanities, medical humanities, and environmental humanities, as well as related disciplines such as literary studies, philosophy, anthropology, and geography.