I’m grateful to Shahira Hathout and the British Society for Literature and Science for this review of Advancing Medical Posthumanism.
Hathout writes:
“Tana Jean Welch inhabits a space where poetry, posthumanism, and medicine converge to show how poetry can provide a posthumanist perspective that activates an ethical understanding of what it means to be ‘human’ in the world… it is an important and timely book that problematizes how we relate to violent events around us. Her note on vulnerability, ‘to be honest about our material vulnerability and our knotted relations is to realize that what’s happening elsewhere, is actually happening here, to all of us’ (168), reminds us that we have a responsibility to reject complicity and to rethink our subjectivity as part of a global ill-health assemblage that constitutes bodies (human and nonhuman), genocidal practices, and a climate crisis.”
