Foreword
Stefani Engelstein
Boundaries and Interdisciplines: Where Health Humanities Meets Literature & Science in German Studies
Introduction
Stephanie M. Hilger
Intersections: Health Humanities and German Studies
PART I: Medical Readings/Reading Medicine
Katharina Fürholzer
"Verschlungen sitze ich / neben der Sprache:" Aphasic Poetry between Medicine and Metaphor
Anita Wohlmann and Katharina Bahlmann
The Totality Trap of Reading Illness: Unica Zürn's The House of Illnesses
Amanda Sheffer
Dr. Max Liebermann's Vienna: Diagnosis, Gender, and Criminality in Historical Crime Fiction
Madalina Meirosu
Teaching "Outbreak Narratives" during the COVID Pandemic
PART II: Graphic Medicine
Marina Rauchenbacher
Comics from the German-Language Realm and Health Humanities: An Overview
Katja Herges
Disability and Embodiment in Contemporary German Comics
Priscilla Layne
Drawing on Pain: Depicting Disability and Trauma in Mikael Ross' Graphic Novel Der Umfall
Elizabeth Nijdam
"Thinking in Comics:" Representing Autism Spectrum Disorder in Autobiographical Graphic Narrative
PART III: Disability
Anne Waldschmidt
Disability = Behinderung? The Conceptual History of a Social Category in Germany from a Disability Studies Perspective
Heidi Hausse
A New View of an Old Prosthesis: Creating a Digital 3D Model of a Sixteenth-Century Iron Hand
Heike Bartel
Rewriting Illness from the Turkish German Margins: Eating Disorders in Narratives by Renan Demirkan and Yade Yasemin Önder
Alec Cattell
Teaching at the Intersection of German Studies and Disability Studies
PART IV: Race
Gabi Kathöfer
Work, Disability, Race: Toward an Intersectional, "Unsettling" Analysis of German Settler Colonialism
Julia Roos
The Post-1945 Eugenics Consensus and the Persecution of Germans of Color in the Third Reich: A Legal Case Study
Heikki Lempa
Tea, Race, and Ethnicity: Medical Knowledge of the Others in the German Lands, 1700-1830
PART V: Gender
Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio
Suspicious Body Parts and Endangered Femininity: Western Medical Knowledge about Female Genitalia and Practices of Genital Cutting in the Early Modern Age
Benjamin R. Davis
Establishing a New Order?: Queer Performativity, Embodied Precarity, and the Pathologization of the Transgressive Body in Melusine (1456) and Fortunatus (1509)
Joela Jacobs and Bastian Lasse
Making Intersex Identity ILLegible: Oskar Panizza's "Ein scandalöser Fall"
Necia Chronister
Reading as a Trans-Corporeal Act
PART VI: Trauma
Eleoma Bodammer
Death by Despair: Destroying Health in Schiller's Die Räuber
Allison Schmidt
The Bodies Kept the Score: Two Case Studies on Health and Violence after the Great War
Anke Pinkert
Refracting War Violence: Psychiatric Discourse in the Soviet Occupation Zone
and the Early East German State
PART VII: Animals and the Environment
Brian McInnis
The Animals among Humankind: Fables of Reason in Johann August Unzer's Medical Weekly Der Arzt
Nicole Thesz
Dangerous Bodies: Witches in German Fairy Tales and the Literary Imagination
Davina Höll
"Vollkommene Organismen:" The Beginnings of a Literary Imagination of the Microbiome
