Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture: Can Wellness Be Far Behind?

ISBN-13: 9781032292687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str.

Chatterjee, Anindita

Opis

This book is a cultural exploration of health and wellness, with a focus on impacts of Covid-19 on the population of India. A novel contribution on the cultural factors 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.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Can Wellness be Far Behind?: Disease, Health and Culture Section I. Social Science Perspective Chapter 2. Colonialism and Disease: Smallpox in the Aboriginal Population; Chapter 3. Vaccine Nation and its Miserables: Bodies and Bio-citizenship in the Empire; Chapter 4. Spaces of Cure or Confinement? Inside the walls of the Mental Asylums of the 19th Century; Chapter 5. Žižek’s Pandemic!, the ‘New Normal’ Dilemma and Some Indian Perspectives; Chapter 6. Livelihood of Internal Migrants of India during Covid-19 Pandemic: Concerns and Measures; Chapter 7. Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination during a Pandemic: A Special Reference to India; Chapter 8. Hate in the Times of Covid-19: Can we Blame the Print Media in India?; Chapter 9. Neo Liberal Turn in The Domain of Health Care: The Emergence of Corporate Health Care Sector in India Section II. Cultural Perspective Chapter 10. Disease and the Desire for Health in Shakespeare’s Macbeth; Chapter 11. Their Mother’s Gardens: Epidemic, Healing and Motherhood in Year of Wonders and Hamnet; Chapter 12. "stand aside death…today is my day": Contextualizing the Naga Esotericism in Easterine Kire’s Novels; Chapter 13. Dis-ease, Dis-order and the Refugee Experience: Appraising South Asian Partition Narratives; Chapter 14. 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; Chapter 15. Disjunctured Subjectivities and Corporeal Well-being: Issues of Mobility and Health in Select Transgender Life Narratives from India; Chapter 16. 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; Chapter 17. Disease, Wellbeing, and the Idea of Health in Select Cinematic Representations of the Macbeth Metaphor