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Author:

Jones, Esther L., 1976- author.

Title:

Medicine and ethics in Black women's speculative fiction / Esther L. Jones.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

x, 190 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women, Black, in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Futurism (Literary movement)
Science fiction, American--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Eating Salt: Black Women's Health and the Politics of Difference in Medicine -- 1. The Black Girl's Burden: Eugenics, Genomics, and Genocide in Octavia Butler's Fledgling -- 2. The Unbearable Burden of Culture: Sexual Violence, Women's Power, and Cultural Ethics in Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death -- 3. Organ Donation, Mythic Medicine, and Madness in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring -- 4. "I Mean to Survive": Feminist Disability Theory and Womanist Survival Ethics in Octavia Butler's Parables -- Conclusion: Blood, Salt, and Tears: Theorizing Difference in the Black Feminist Speculative Tradition.

Summary:

"Medicine and Ethics in Black Women's Speculative Fiction engages the complex nexus of black women's health, the fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women, and the problems with the inconsistent application of medical ethics that should concern us all through the lens of black women's literary speculation"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine

ISBN:

1137520604
9781137520609

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904904693

LCCN:

2015007033

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)