Health. Illness. Urgency: Western World-Making and Matters of Life and Death

• In Event: Curriculum Theory in the Body and in Society

Abstract

In this theoretical paper, I historicize how notions of health and disease have come to double as both metonym and metaphor for urgent educational concerns (e.g., racism, environmental destruction, political corruption, economic precarity, civil liberties, wisdom/knowledge debates, etc.). I focus on histories of health and illness and its productions of Western world-making, with emphasis on the making of America, bodies, and their presumed relations in Anglophone discourses from the 19th century into the present.

Author

• Ryan Ziols, Georgia State University
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