Literature,Medicine,and Public Health:An Interview with Sally Shuttleworth
Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English and former Head of the Humanities Di-vision at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy(FBA).In 2021,she was included in The Queens's Birthday Honours List and became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE).She has published extensively on the interrelated study of Vic-torian literature and science,especially medicine and public health,including The Mind of the Child:Child Development in Literature,Science and Medicine,1840-1900(2020)and Anx-ious Times:Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain(2019).In this interview,which was conducted during the interviewer's visit at the University of Oxford in early 2023,Prof.Shuttleworth discusses several major issues concerning the interdisciplinary study of"literature-medicine":the borders of this field,the rise of Health Humanities,women's writ-ings and healthcare,and the mission of humanists in the post-epidemic period.
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