The Humanities Pandemic: Towards a Front-Line Approach

The book explores how the Humanities can play an essential service role in addressing global challenges such as the Covid pandemic. It calls for a new critical engagement from Humanities scholars with the question of how to overcome a fundamental challenge facing universities globally: finding a common language and set of 'cultural assumptions between disciplines as the basis for communication.

Format: Hardback
Length: 145 pages
Publication date: 26 July 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

The significance of the Humanities in addressing global challenges, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, is explored in this book. It advocates for a collaborative approach between the Humanities and the Health Sciences to confront these challenges effectively. The book highlights the need for a common language and cultural assumptions between disciplines as the foundation for effective communication and collaboration. It examines the nature of barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration and proposes a new Translational Humanities that can bridge gaps between disciplines and sectors. The book argues that critically distant texts and thematic contexts, rather than narratives such as pandemic novels or contagion films, are more effective in engaging with contentious debates about COVID-19. This book occupies a previously unconsidered intersection between debates on interdisciplinary collaboration, intercultural contact, and the role of the Humanities in addressing global issues.

The significance of the Humanities in addressing global challenges, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, is explored in this book. It advocates for a collaborative approach between the Humanities and the Health Sciences to confront these challenges effectively. The book highlights the need for a common language and cultural assumptions between disciplines as the foundation for effective communication and collaboration. It examines the nature of barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration and proposes a new Translational Humanities that can bridge gaps between disciplines and sectors. The book argues that critically distant texts and thematic contexts, rather than narratives such as pandemic novels or contagion films, are more effective in engaging with contentious debates about COVID-19. This book occupies a previously unconsidered intersection between debates on interdisciplinary collaboration, intercultural contact, and the role of the Humanities in addressing global issues.

Weight: 328g
Dimension: 151 x 218 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031316289
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023