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02541aam a2200421 i 4500 001 D0EB7C666B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150310t20152015nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015007033 020 $a 1137520604 020 $a 9781137520609 035 $a (OCoLC)904904693 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d CDX $d OCLCO $d COO $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374 N4 J66 2015 100 1 $a Jones, Esther L., $d 1976- $e author. 245 10 $a Medicine and ethics in Black women's speculative fiction / $c Esther L. Jones. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a x, 190 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women, Black, in literature. 650 0 $a Medicine in literature. 650 0 $a Ethics in literature. 650 0 $a Futurism (Literary movement) 650 0 $a Science fiction, American $x History and criticism. 830 0 $a Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826035450.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D0EB7C666B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search