American life writing and the medical humanities : writing contagion

• Main Author: Allen Wright, Samantha (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
• Subjects: Autobiography.; Biography.; Communicable diseases > United States.; Biography & autobiography > General.; Memoirs.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781839096747; 9781839096723
• DOI: 10.1108/9781839096723
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 172 pages) ; cm

American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion bridges a gap in the market by linking the medical humanities with disability studies. It examines how Americans have used life writing to record epidemic disease throughout history. Starting in the late 1800s with Yellow Fever and...