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Wright, S.A. (2020), "Index", American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 169-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-672-320201009

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Copyright © 2020 Samantha Allen Wright

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INDEX

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate footnotes.

Ableism

, 10, 45, 85, 101, 103–104, 107, 111, 118, 145

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

, 1, 68, 90n4, 90–91, 94, 96, 108

American illness narratives

, 21–23

American life writing

, 2, 4–5, 23–24

quest narrative

, 6–7

American literature

, 2, 68, 70

American media response

, 112–113

American memoir

, 70

American Plague (see Yellow fever)

American polio epidemics

, 73

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

, 48n6

Ashe, Arthur

, 3, 16, 19, 91, 93–98, 106–109

Autism

, 77n8

Autobiographical writing about illness

, 21–22

Autobiography

, 7, 14–15, 27–28, 30–33, 85, 136

AVERT

, 91

Bell Jar, the (1963)

, 65

Biomedical culture

, 3

Breast cancer

, 77n8

Bushmeat

, 123–124

Celebrity illness

, 92–94

Celebrity memoirs

, 19, 85

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

, 90, 154

Chaos narratives

, 6, 57–59, 149

Cholera

, 21, 24–25

Chronic illness

, 109–113

City of Philadelphia

, 30

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

, 30

Contagion

, 12, 15, 43, 69, 90, 116–117, 123, 138, 156

Contemporary illness

, 72

Conversation narratives

, 7

Couser, Thomas

, 25–28, 74, 77n8, 81, 84–85

Crip theory

, 91, 91n5, 103–109

Critical medical humanities

, 2–3, 8–9, 13, 45–46, 65, 86, 94, 109, 136, 154–155

Critical race theory (CRT)

, 91n5, 104–109

Cuevavirus

, 120n6

Currie, William

, 27, 29–30

Currie’s text

, 37

Days of Grace (Ashe)

, 19–20, 91, 93–98, 107–108

Deafness

, 77n8

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

, 140

Depression

, 77n8

Dianlovirus

, 120n6

Diphtheria

, 21

Disability

, 16–17, 42, 48

Ebola

, 137–141

memoirs

, 72

scholars

, 9

Disability in Pale Horse

, 59–65

Disability studies (DS)

, 8–11, 13, 46, 103, 105–107

Disability Studies Reader, The (Davis)

, 111

Disability Visibility Project

, 155

Disability/illness divide

, 109–113

Disciplinary divide

, 10

Discrimination

, 10, 17, 97

Disease

Ebola

, 137–141

epidemic

, 1

Zoonotic

, 139n19

Disease/disability binary

, 10–11, 43, 48

Doctor memoirs

, 34

Doctor’s narratives

, 30–35

Early American life writing

, 25–30

quest narrative and polio’s link to

, 70–73

Ebola

, 20, 112–113, 115n1, 115–118

hemorrhagic fever

, 132

history

, 119–125

illness narratives

, 126–137

modern-day freak shows and

, 137–141

outbreak

, 115n2

Ebola virus (EBOV)

, 132

Ebola Virus Disease

, 115, 120

Ebolavirus

, 120n6

Epidemic(s)

disease

, 1, 3, 11, 13–14, 21, 23–24, 41, 71, 90

social media and

, 150–154

FDR

, 73n5, 77, 77n9, 78n10

Fear-bola

, 116–117

Frank, Arthur W.

, 6–7, 14–15, 56–59, 67, 71–75, 86, 148–149

Freakshows

, 20

Gay cancer

, 90

Gay-related immune deficiency

, 90

Guillain-Barré syndrome

, 150

Hantavirus

, 125, 135

“Healthy disabled” category

, 111

Hong Kong flu (see Influenza pandemic of 1918)

Hot Zone, the (1994)

, 20, 117–118, 127–129, 129n14, 132–137, 135n16, 141, 143

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

, 23, 89–91, 90n4, 96, 98, 109–113

Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS)

, 2, 19–20, 77n8, 84, 96, 109, 117, 146

celebrity illness

, 92–94

Crip theory

, 104–109

critical race theory

, 104–109

Days of Grace

, 91, 93–98

interdisciplinary connections

, 99–104

memoirs

, 12

Illness

, 16–17, 41–42

exclusion

, 43

life writing

, 3–7

memoirs

, 6, 19

in Pale Horse

, 59–65

stories

, 14–15

writing

, 23–24

Illness narratives

, 3–7, 5n4, 85

definitions

, 14–16

early American life writing

, 25–30

future of

, 7–14

“Pale Horse, Pale Rider”

, 44–48

proliferation

, 68

social media as

, 146–150, 154–155

Infection

, 15, 25, 50, 62, 89

Influenza

, 21, 56, 113

Influenza epidemic of 1918

, 1–2, 18, 48–53, 59–61, 65, 69

Institutionalization

, 10

Interdisciplinary approach

, 13

Interdisciplinary connections of HIV/AIDS

, 99–104

Interdisciplinary epidemics

, 2–17

Kaplan, Louis

, 31, 73

Kaplan’s bibliography

, 31n4

Kehret, Peg

, 3, 16, 19, 69–71, 76, 78, 80–81, 92, 155

Kehret’s memoir

, 81–84

Keller, Helen

, 75

Kleinman, Arthur

, 2, 14–15, 17, 44–45

Kleinman’s text

, 44–45

Leper

, 12

Life writing

, 14, 22

Literary postmodernity

, 13

Makona strain

, 135

Malaria

, 21

Marburg

, 120n6, 121, 128n13, 130–131

Marburg Virus Disease

, 117n4

Marburgvirus

, 120n6

Measles

, 21, 150, 152–153

Medical education

, 8

Medical humanities

, 2–3, 8–11, 13, 103, 154–155

Medical model of disability

, 9–10, 17, 112

Memoir

, 4–6, 27–28, 74

American

, 70

boom

, 5, 5n2

celebrity

, 19, 85

disability

, 72

doctor

, 34

HIV/AIDS

, 12

illness

, 6, 19

Kehret’s

, 81–84

polio

, 6n5, 67–68, 76–77

spiritual

, 5

Militant gays

, 95–96, 108

Misinformation crisis

, 126–137

Mitchell, David T.

, 42, 63

Modernism

, 2–3, 53–54

Mumps

, 21

My Place to Stand (Plagemann)

, 74–75, 78–84

Narrative fragmentation

, 54

National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)

, 31

National Geographic

, 139–141

1918 pandemic (see Influenza epidemic of 1918)

Nobody memoirs

, 81–82

“Noon Wine”

, 43n3

“Old Mortality”

, 43n3

Ong, Walter

, 28–29

Outbreak (1995)

, 115, 126–127

Outbreak narrative

, 15, 134–135

“Pale Horse, Pale Rider”

, 18–19, 43n3, 43–44, 67, 70, 77, 147

disability and illness in

, 59–65

illness narratives

, 44–48

as modernist illness narrative

, 52–59

1918 influenza pandemic

, 48–52

Pandemic

, 18, 46–47, 49–50, 52, 58, 60–61

Pathography

, 5n4, 5–7, 15–16, 52

Patient–practitioner interactions

, 8

Plagemann, Bentz

, 3, 16, 69–70, 74–75, 77–84, 92

Plagemann’s memoir

, 79n12, 81–84

Plague

, 21

Polio

, 1, 19, 23, 67–69, 89

epidemics

, 67

memoirs

, 6n5, 67–68, 76–77

My Place to Stand

, 78–84

narratives

, 11, 68–70, 73–78, 85–86

quest narrative and polio’s link to Early American life writing

, 70–73

Small Steps

, 78–84

Porter, Katherine Anne

, 3, 16, 18–19, 43, 50, 53–56, 58–59, 61–64, 92, 147

Post-polio syndrome (PPS)

, 76n7

Preston, Richard

, 126–137

Puritan redemption narratives

, 3

Queer theory

, 91, 91n5, 104

Quest narrative

, 6–7

and polio’s link to Early American life writing

, 70–73

Racial inequality

, 97

Rampersad, Arnold

, 3, 16, 91, 95

Restitution narrative

, 6

Rheumatism

, 62, 62n19

Rhizome theory

, 53n14

Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith

, 54, 57, 146–149

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

, 19, 71, 73, 77, 92

Rush, Benjamin

, 25, 30, 32–35, 37–38

Rush’s autobiography

, 30, 32, 34, 37

Scarlet fever

, 21

Sick person

, 17

Sisters of Saint Mary at Memphis

, 29–30, 35–38

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Kehret)

, 76, 78–84

Smallpox

, 1, 21n1, 21–22, 24–25, 39

Snyder, Sharon L.

, 42, 63

Social constructionist analyses of disability

, 111

Social media

, 20, 143–145

and epidemics

, 150–154

as illness narratives

, 146–150, 154–155

Social model of disability

, 9–10, 111

Spanish flu (see Influenza epidemic of 1918)

Spiritual memoirs

, 5

Spiritual narratives

, 4–5

Stigma

, 17

Stigma Project

, 102

Storytelling

, 144–145

Sudan virus (SUDV)

, 132

Survivor

, 17

Swine flu pandemic

, 51

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland

, 20, 118, 137–138, 140–141

Trump, Donald

, 115, 119–120, 123, 125–126, 141, 150

Twitter

, 146–147

2014–2016 Ebola crisis

, 117–118, 126, 128, 137–138, 141, 143

2014–2016 Ebola epidemic

, 121–122, 129

2014–2016 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak

, 115, 117

Typhus

, 21

“Unhealthy disabled” category

, 111

Vaughan, Victor

, 25–26, 31, 33–35, 37–38, 77, 138–139

Victim

, 17

Warm Springs

, 77n9, 82

Wendell, Susan

, 10, 91–92, 111–112

West African Ebola epidemic

, 112–113

West African Ebola outbreaks

, 20

Whooping cough

, 21

Woolf, Virginia

, 41–42, 56

World Health Organization (WHO)

, 121, 150–151

World War I

, 1, 18, 43, 50–52, 60

World War II

, 1, 70, 73–75, 78

Writing Contagion

, 2–3, 7, 10–11, 16, 18

Xenophobia

, 67

Yellow fever

, 2, 21–23

accounts

, 35–38

doctor’s narratives

, 30–35

early American life writing

, 25–30

epidemics

, 18

history

, 23–25

Zika epidemic

, 150

Zika virus

, 150–152

Zoonotic diseases

, 139n19