Medicine and Ethics in Black Women's Speculative Fiction

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.

Author: Esther L. Jones
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/26/2015
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781137520609

About the Author
Esther L. Jones is an Assistant Professor of English at Clark University, USA.