Canadian Literature and Medicine

Carelanding

Shane Neilson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000929843
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Canadian Literature and Medicine breaks new ground by formulating a series of frameworks with which to read and interpret a national literature derived from the very fabric of that literature – in this case Canadian. Canadian literature is of particular interest because of its consideration of coloniality, Indigeneity, and coincident development alongside a nascent socialized medical system currently under threat from neoliberalism.

The first chapters of the book carefully track the development of Canada's socialized medical system as it manifests in the imaginations of the nation's poets and authors who depict care. Reciprocal flows are investigated in which these poets and authors are quoted in policy documents. The archive-based methodology is sustained in subsequent chapters that rely upon a unique interdisciplinary mix of medical history, philosophy of medicine, medical policy, theory inherent to the field of Canadian literature (focusing in particular on the garrison mentality as a form of aesthetic protest and the feminist ethics of care), and Indigenous ways of knowing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Section I Theoretical Entanglements
• Section II Indigenous Care and Narrative Medicine
• Section III Co-constructions of Canadian Literature and Medicine
• Section IV Neoliberal Care
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Index