Download or read book American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities written by Samantha Allen Wright and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Life Writing and the Medical Humanities: Writing Contagion bridges a gap in the market by linking the medical humanities with disability studies. It examines how Americans used life writing to record epidemic disease throughout history.