Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book:· Represents the first collection to bring the environmental humanities and medical humanities into conversation in a systematic way· Features contributions from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives including literary studies, environmental ethics and philosophy, cultural history and sociology· Adopts a truly global approach, examining contexts including, but not limited to, North America, the UK, Africa, Latin America, South Asia, Turkey and East Asia· Touches on issues and approaches such as narrative medicine, ecoprecarity, toxicity, mental health, and contaminated environments.Showcasing and surveying a rich spectrum of issues and methodologies, this book looks not only at where research currently is at the intersection of these two important fields, but also at where it is going.

1. Acknowledgments2. Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran, IntroductionPart 1. Conceptualizing Convergence: Econarratology and Narrative Medicine, Graphic Medicine and Environmental Texts, Virology, Grey Ecology, and Ecopsychology3. Eric Morel, Narrative Knowing and Narrative Practice4. Mita Banerjee, Black Lives Matter in Flint, Michigan5. Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Chinmay Murali, Graphic Medicine, Ecological Consciousness6. Maria Whiteman, Fungi Umwelt7. Z. Gizem Yilmaz Karahan, Contagious History8. Lars Schmeink, The Grey Ecology of Zombie Fiction9. Tathagata Som, Climate Change and Grief10. Samantha Walton, Eco-Recovery Memoir and the Medical Environmental HumanitiesPart 2. Environmental Toxicity and Public Health11. Sofia Varino, Pathogenic (Auto)Ecologies12. Robin Chen-hsing Tsai, Toward an Ethics of Transcorporeality and Public Health in Taiwanese Ecopathodocumentary13. Heather Leigh Ramos, Resisting Slow Violence, Environmental Toxins, and Systemic Racism14. Kathryn Yalan Chang, 'Reframing Care' in the Age of a Novel Corona Virus15. Nikoleta Zampaki, Poetry and Art in the Age of AnthropocenePart 3. Varieties of Entanglement: Landscapes, Bodyscapes, Micro- and Macro-biota16. Susanne Lettow, Health, Disease, and the Body in Ecofeminist Theory17. Jorge Marcone, A Gut Feeling18. Henry Obi Ajumeze, Performing Damaged Land/Body-scape in the Niger Delta19. Chia-ju Chang, Pathological Mimesis and Buddhist Phármakon in the Anthropocene Pandemic20. Françoise Besson, Fighting the Spread of Disease through Words21. Animesh Roy, From the Clinical to the EcoculturalPart 4. Exemplifying Specific Cultural Approaches to the Convergences of Environment, Health, and the Arts22. Raghul V. Rajan, Ayurvedic Vision on Health and Environment23. Animesh Mohapatra and Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Health and Hygiene Discourses in the Early Twentieth Century24. Marcos Colón, (Un)sustainable Ecology25. Chinonye Ekwueme-Ugwu, Nature and Traditional Medicine in Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God and Things Fall Apart26. Kiu-wai Chu, The Tales of Chinese Herbs27. John Charles Ryan, 'Into the Sap Stream'28. Fazila Derya Agis, Turkish Classical Songs' Lyrics and Related Idioms for a Literary Therapy for Curing Ecodepression29. Tess Maginess, Expressing Concepts of Environment through Concepts of Madness in Some Irish Literature30. Epilogue: Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our PlanetScott Slovic, You Don't Know What You Got 'Til It's GoneSwarnalatha Rangarajan, The Gasping Turtle and Other Hypoxia Narratives: Prana in a Threatened WorldVidya Sarveswaran, Dying to Breathe