Join the National Institute of Health to celebrate the open-access publication of Challenging Stories: Exploring the Intersections between Health and the Humanities.
This new book of original scholarship is an outcome of the partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Library of Medicine (NLM), Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and Virginia Tech Publishing, to develop initiatives that explore the intersection of biomedical and humanities research.
The launch of Challenging Stories will take place on Friday, September 27, 2024, at 1pm ET onsite at the National Endowment for the Humanities (Constitution Center, Washington, DC) and online via Zoom. Free and open to the public. Event contact: E. Thomas Ewing.
Challenging Stories explores experiences of demanding health conditions, and attitudes in response to them, across historical and contemporary contexts. It brings an interdisciplinary perspective to topics such as maternal health, care for aging adults, births by midwives, family, planning, infectious disease, outbreaks, biosafety health protocols, blood transfusions, and plant-based health practices. The case studies explored in each chapter contribute to a deeper and richer understanding of how challenging stories are embedded in an appreciation of community and individual health.
Contributors to the book include Emily Beck, Chuan Hao (Alex) Chen, Martha L. Espinosa, E. Thomas Ewing, Macey Flood, Priyanka Ganguly, Kimberly V. Jones, Gianna May Sanchez, Samin Rashidbeigi, Jeffrey S. Reznick, Frank Vitale IV, Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori.
Learn more and download your copy freely from Virginia Tech Libraries.