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Therese Jones Kathleen Pachucki Editors The COVID Pandemic: Essays, Book Reviews, and Poems The COVID Pandemic: Essays, Book Reviews, and Poems Therese Jones Kathleen Pachucki (cid:129) Editors The COVID Pandemic: Essays, Book Reviews, and Poems Previously published in Journal of Medical Humanities, Volume 42, Issue 1, March 2021 123 Editors Therese Jones Kathleen Pachucki Anschutz Medical Campus HealthSciences Center University of Colorado University of Utah Aurora,CO, USA Salt Lake City,UT,USA ISBN978-3-031-19230-2 ISBN978-3-031-19231-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19231-9 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNature SwitzerlandAG2022 Chapters“COVID-19,Contagion,andVaccineOptimism”,“VirileInfertileMen,andOtherRepresen- tationsofIn/FertileHegemonicMasculinityinFictionTelevisionSeries”,“MovementasMethod:Some ExistentialandEpistemologicalReflectionsonDanceintheHealthHumanities”and“TheEthicofRes- ponsibility:MaxWeber’sVerstehenandSharedDecision-MakinginPatient-CentredCare”arelicensed underthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttribution4.0InternationalLicense(http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/).Forfurtherdetailsseelicenseinformationinthechapter. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Contents The COVID Pandemic: Selected Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Therese Jones and Kathleen Pachucki Planetary Health Humanities—Responding to COVID Times . . . . . . . . 3 Bradley Lewis Placing the Blame: What If “They” REALLY Are Responsible?. . . . . . 17 Zhou Xun and Sander Gilman COVID19, Contagion, and Vaccine Optimism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Kelly McGuire Sinophobic Epidemics in America: Historical Discontinuity in Disease-related Yellow Peril Imaginaries of the Past and Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Dennis Zhang Letting Go of Familiar Narratives as Tragic Optimism in the Era of COVID-19. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Anna Gotlib Masks in Medicine: Metaphors and Morality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Lindsey Grubbs and Gail Geller Reading for Pandemic: Viral Modernism by Elizabeth Outka, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Rachel Conrad Bracken The Health Humanities and Camus’s the Plague, Edited by Woods Nash, Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2019 . . . . . . . 115 Steven Wilson Love in the Time of COVID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Carl V. Tyler v vi Contents Inflorescence of Mistrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Brent R. Carr “A Sick Child is Always the Mother’s Property”: The Jane Austen Pediatric Trauma Management Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Perri Klass Beside Oneself with Rage: The Doubled Self as Metaphor in a Narrative of Brain Injury with Emotional Dysregulation . . . . . . . . 131 Jorie Hofstra Virile Infertile Men, and Other Representations of In/Fertile Hegemonic Masculinity in Fiction Television Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Marjolein Lotte de Boer Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Aimie Purser The Ethic of Responsibility: Max Weber’s Verstehen and Shared Decision-Making in Patient-Centred Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Ariane Hanemaayer When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by Ryan T Anderson New York: Encounter Books, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Armand H. Matheny Antommaria ThePoeticsandPoliticsofAlzheimer’sDiseaseLife-WritingbyMartina Zimmermann, London, UK: Palgrave McMillan, 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Kathryn Lafferty Danner The Art of Death by Edwidge Dandicat, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Belinda Waller-Peterson Journal of Medical Humanities (2021) 42:1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09683-5 The COVID Pandemic: Selected Work Therese Jones1 · Kathleen Pachucki2 P ublished online: 22 February 2021 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature 2021 FROM THE EDITOR Similar to many academic journals, we have received a number of submissions over the past months that directly address the current pandemic. In the early months, we saw an unprecedented number of poetry submissions from physicians who seemed to be turning to verse as a way to memorialize what was happening, to find ways of healing from the dev- astating number of dying patients, and to capture the exhaustion and anxiety of caring for others day after day without respite. For this issue, we have selected several critical essays, book reviews, and poems from all of those submissions to mark a sad but hopeful first anniversary of COVID. To our col- leagues who have been caring for patients, teaching and mentoring students, and contrib- uting to our understanding and awareness of this crisis, thank you for your resilience and your compassion. Publisher’s Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. * Therese Jones [email protected] 1 Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, 13001 E. 17th Pl, Aurora, CO 80045, USA 2 Salt Lake City, USA 1 3 1 Reprinted from the journal Journal of Medical Humanities (2021) 42:3–16 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-020-09670-2 Planetary Health Humanities—Responding to COVID Times BradleyLewis1 Accepted:15October2020/Published online: 28 October 2020 #SpringerScience+BusinessMedia,LLC,partofSpringerNature2020 Abstract The coronavirus pandemic has shattered our world with increased morbidity, mortality, andpersonal/socialsufferings.Atthetimeofthiswriting,weareinabiomedicalracefor protectiveequipment,viraltesting,andvaccinecreationinanefforttorespondtoCOVID threats.Butwhatistheroleofhealthhumanitiesintheseviraltimes?Thisarticleworks though interdisciplinary connections between health humanities, the planetary health movement, and environmental humanitiestoconceptualize the emergence of“planetary health humanities.” The goal of this affinity linkage is to re-story health humanities toward promotion of planetary health and community well-being. Wellbeing is critical because themaindriverofenvironmentaldestructionanddecreasingplanetaryhealthis comingfromnon-sustainabledefinitionsofwellbeing.Weneedtheartsandhumanitiesto helpreimaginethepossibilityofasustainablecommunitywellbeing.Forhealthhuman- ities,abasicroleandnarrativeidentitystartstoemerge—weshouldbecomeaplanetary health(andwell-being)humanities. Keywords Healthhumanities.Corona-virus.Planetaryhealth.Environmentalhumanities.Arts forhealth.Well-being.Sustainabledevelopment Emerginginfectiousdiseases(EIDs)areasignificantburdenonglobaleconomiesand public health. Their emergence is thought to be driven largely by socio-economic, environmental and ecological factors… EID events are dominated by zoonoses (60.3%ofEIDs):themajorityofthese(71.8%)originateinwildlife…andareincreasing significantlyovertime. Jonesetal.2008 * BradleyLewis [email protected] 1 GallatinSchoolofIndividualizedStudy,NewYorkUniversity,1WashingtonSq.#609,NewYork, NY10003,USA 1 3 3 Reprinted from the journal B. Lewis Nearlyall ofthemost importanthumanpathogensareeitherzoonoticororiginatedas zoonosesbeforeadaptingtohumanbeings…Ecologicalchangeshaveledtoincreased ratesofemergingandre-emergingdiseases. Whitmeeetal.2015 Introduction This article, written in the midst of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, considers some of meanings of coronavirus for health humanities. The two quotes above tell us that the virus is not a surprise. The medical literature knew as far back as 2008 that planet-wide socio- economic, environmental, and ecological pressures were creating conditions for Emerging InfectiousDiseases(EIDs)arisingfromnovelzoonoticpathogenslikeCOVID-19.Asaresult, by2015,therewasalreadyamainstreamacademicandmedicalmovementforashifttowards PlanetaryHealth.TheLancetCommissiononPlanetaryHealthreportexplainstheneedforthe movement: “by unsustainably exploiting nature’s resources, human civilization… now risks substantialhealtheffectsfromthedegradationofnature’slifesupportsystems”(Whitmeeetal. 2015, 1973). The 2020 pandemic is the latest and so far most widespread example of these emerginghealtheffects. Inthiscontext,COVID-19shouldbeinterpretednotasanisolatedeventora crisisfrom nowhere. Rather, it should be read as a wake-up call toward more sustainable living. The implicationsofthisinterpretationcutsacrossbothnationalanddisciplinaryboundaries.Each discipline, like each country and each region, must take seriously the meanings of COVID times.Forhealthhumanities,thebasicdirectionofthatmeaningisclear—weshouldexpand ourfocustowardpromotingplanetaryhealthandwell-being.Weshouldbecomeaplanetary healthhumanities. Planetaryhealth Developingplanetaryhealthhumanitiesstartswithworkingthroughtheemergingdiscursive andnarrativeframingsofa“planetaryhealth”movement.The2015RockefellerFoundation— LancetCommissiononPlanetaryHealth(CPH)isagoodplacetobegin.Thecommissionwas composedofadiversegroupofscientific contributorsfrommedicine,ecology,biodiversity, andenvironmentalhealth(HortonandLo2015).TheRockefellerFoundation,initsroleand self-identityasapioneerinthefieldofpublichealth,initiatedandfundedthecommissionin collaboration with leading medical journal, the Lancet. The Foundation saw their efforts to createthefieldof“planetaryhealth”asanextensionoftheirpublichealthwork,orasJudith Rodin,thenpresidentoftheFoundationcalledit:“publichealth-2.0”(2015,myitalics).Their motivationwasclearlystated:“Theconsensusinthescientificcommunityisstark:ourplanet, and its ability to sustain human life, is in imminent danger.” This danger, Rodin explains, comes from theconsequences ofonehundred years of pursuingprogress througheconomic anddevelopmentpracticesthathave“createdunintendedconsequencesforournaturalworld.” The result is changing patterns of known diseases and “increasing the likelihood that new unknowndiseaseswillemerge”(2015). The CPHarticulatesindetail how contemporaryearth systemsaredeteriorating and how thisdeteriorationisdamaginghumanhealthandwell-being—thebadnewsisthatEIDslike Reprinted from the journal 4 1 3 Planetary Health Humanities—Responding to COVID Times COVID-19areonlyoneofahostofdamagingconsequences.Inthissituationofinterlinking environmentalandhumanhealthdeclines,theCPHprovidesadefinitionofplanetaryhealth: the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, wellbeing, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human systems—political, economic, and social—that shape the future of humanity and the Earth’s natural systems that define the safe environmental limits within which humanity can flourish. Put simply, planetaryhealthisthehealthofhumancivilizationandthestateofthenaturalsystems onwhichitdepends.(Whitmeeetal.2015,1978) This definition is contained in a box—“the concept of planetary health”—which elaborates keyaspectsofthisdefinition.First,theCPHexplicitlyusestheWHOdefinitionofhealth:“a stateofcompletephysical,mental,andsocialwellbeingandnotmerelytheabsenceofdisease or infirmity” (1978). CPH, in defining Planetary Health, therefore joins with the WHO definition to give healthcare research, education, and practice the role of health promotion conceptualized as biopsychosocial (BPS) phenomena. The CPH underscores its BPS, or systems, focus by locating planetary health as part of an “ecological public health model” whichincludes“material,biological,social,andcultural”variablesinteractinginthecomplex and non-linear “dynamics ofnatural systems” (1978).Finally,theCPH “makes thecase for widening the responsibility for health across disciplines and sectors beyond the traditional confinesofthehealthsector”(1978).ThislastpointisunderscoredbytheCPHawarenessthat planetaryhealthisaninterdisciplinaryall handsondeckprioritywhicharisesinthiscritical moment to “address the challenges of how best toprotect andpromote human healthin the Anthropoceneepoch”(1978). Critically,theCPHalsoincludesasectiononthethreemain“drivers”ofenvironmentaland health deterioration: resource consumption, over-population, and technology (1983). Of the three drivers,resource consumption, comingprimarily from“increasing absolutewealth,” is “themainfactorforincreasedabsoluteenvironmentalimpact”(1983,italicsadded).Increas- ingconsumptionfromwealthynationsiscreating a “profoundly unequal, resource intensive globaleconomy”thatis“unprecedentedinhumanhistory”(1983).Theimplicationisclear:“a priorityforresearchandinnovationistoachieveacceleratedprogressinhumandevelopment byuseofmuchloweramountsofresourcesandenergyfromnon-renewablesourcesthanare usedatpresent”(1983,italicsadded). TheCPHseesreasonforhopeintheseseeminglyintractableproblemsinthezeitgeistofthe simultaneousemergenceofthelandmarkUNSustainableDevelopmentGoals.Adoptedbyall UN Member States in 2015 (the same year as the CPH), the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable DevelopmentcreatesasharedblueprintwiththeperspectivesofCPHthatcombinehumanand planetaryprosperity(UnitedNations2015).AstheUNexplains: Atitsheartarethe17SustainableDevelopmentGoals(SDGs),whichareanurgentcall for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.(UnitedNations2020) TheSDGshavebecomethekeyframeworkfororganizingtheUN’sinternationalagendaonthe socialandenvironmentaldeterminantsofhealthandwellbeing.Liketheconceptofplanetaryhealth, the SDG’s show the interdependence of health and well-being on factors much larger than the 1 3 5 Reprinted from the journal