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Acknowledgements Introduction 1Comparative Literature, World Literature, Global Literature -- 2Literature and Medicine, Medical and Health Humanities -- 3The Chapters -- Part 1: Shattering Stigmas -- Introduction: Exposing Stigmas 1Legacies of Leprosy 1Leprosy, Christianity, Europe -- 2Imperialism, Segregation, Hawai‘i, Nigeria -- 3Leprosy and East Asia -- 4Propagating Prejudices -- 5Countering Violence -- 5.1Leprosy Narratives and Hawai‘i -- 5.2Japanese and Korean Stories of Leprosy -- 5.3Paradise Reconsidered in Yi Ch’ŏngjun’s Your Paradise -- 5.4Betrayal and the Urdu Translation of Your Paradise -- 5.5Leprosaria as Refuge – Ola Rotimi’s Hopes of the Living Dead -- 2 AIDS, National Fear, Literary Production 1 HIV / AIDS – The Global Epidemic -- 2South Africa – Silence, Secrets, Accusations -- 3Tanzania and Kenya – Denials, Allegations, Vulnerability -- 4China – Innocence, Guilt, Social Control -- 5The United States – Indictments, Activism, Understanding -- 3 AIDS Stigmas, Fear, Care -- 1Deterring Advocacy, Activism, and Education -- 2Deferring Responsibility -- 3Obstructing Timely Testing and Medical Treatment -- 4Forestalling Support -- 5Destroying Landscapes -- Entr’acte: Confronting the Stigmas of Alzheimer’s-- Part 2: Humanizing Healthcare -- Introduction: Person-Focused Care – Advocacy, Respect, Compassion, Empathy, Healing 1Calls for Patient-Centered Care-- 2Person-Focused Care – Empathy, Cultural Humility, Compassion, Healing-- 3Challenges to Person-Focused Care-- 4Narrative Interventions-- 4Contrasts in Care 1Exposing Disparities -- 2Asserting Humanity -- 3Voicing Despair -- 4Articulating Change -- 5Speaking For, Not With-- 1Stories Dismissed-- 2Stories without Words-- 3Stories without Memories-- 4Differences Denied-- 6 Medically Treating, Not Healing-- 1Transforming Medicine – Women Physicians and Healing-- 2Saving without Healing-- 3Temporarily Curing without Healing-- 4Accentuating Violence, Impeding Healing-- 7Interventions in Dying-- 1Easing Death-- 1.1On the Right to Decline Death-Prolonging Care-- 1.2On the Right to Life-Ending Care-- 2Conundrums of Cure-- 2.1Sacrifices in Discovering and Developing Cures-- 2.2The Paradoxical Precariousness of Cure-- Part 3: Prioritizing Partnerships -- Introduction: Healing Partnerships 8Promoting Partnerships in Living, Sharing Care-- 1Integrating Support – Patients, Loved Ones, Health Professionals, Societies-- 2Truth Telling – Patients, Loved Ones, Health Professionals-- 3Eschewing Medical Treatment – Patients, Loved Ones-- 4All about Elephants-- 9Providing Partnerships in Dying, Easing Death-- 1Partnerships Interrupted-- 2Partnerships Criminalized-- 3Partnerships Redefined-- Bibliography Index. In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing. The three parts of this book discuss writings from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania that implore societies to shatter the devastating social stigmas which prevent billions from accessing effective care; to increase the availability of quality person-focused healthcare; and to prioritize partnerships that facilitate healing and enable wellbeing for both patients and loved ones. Thornber’s Global Healing remaps the contours of comparative literature, world literature, the medical humanities, and the health humanities
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