Reviews for Bodies in a Broken World: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine

The average rating for Bodies in a Broken World: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-09-26 00:00:00 Elijah Seeker A great book that begins to examines illness, healing, and the approach to medicine in literature by non-white women. She engages in close readings of the novels and does little theorizing about the concepts she examines, but this does not weaken her text. Her new approach to several well-known authors provides fresh new readings for those not familiar with the medical humanities and narrative medicine. Her literary analysis seemed especially timely with the health care debates currently taking place. For anyone teaching courses in literature and cultural differences in illness, healing, and medicine, I would recommend these even for undergraduate classes, because her work is very accessible, and her close readings provide wonderful models for students to follow as well.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-03 00:00:00 Michael Langarica I really enjoyed this book. If you're interested in Race,Class, and Gender studies within the context of Colonialism and it's impact on Western Medicine, this book is for you. It's original in the sense that the author uses well written and popular fiction books by famous women of color novelists. She looks at popular works such as Beloved, Bluest Eye, Salt Eater and Almanac of the Dead by analysing them within the context of the politics of medicine and history of oppression in Western Society. It's and engaging brilliant piece of work that I simply could not put down. Anyone who is a practitioner of Medicine (physicians as well as psychiatrists and pscyhoanalysts) who is sincerely interested in understanding the social impacts of institutionalized racism within Western Medical world will enjoy this work.