Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
2 total works
Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
by Esther L. Jones
Published 26 August 2015
Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson, Jones highlights how personal experiences of illness and disease frequently reflect larger societal sicknesses in connection to race and gender.
Medicine and Ethics in Black Women S Speculative Fiction
by Esther L. Jones
Published 14 January 2014