Teaching Health Humanities expands our understanding of the burgeoning field of health humanities and of what it aspires to be. The volume's contributors describe their different degree programs, the politics and perspectives that inform their teaching, and methods for incorporating newer digital and multimodal technologies into teaching practices. Each chapter lays out theories that guide contributors' pedagogy, describes its application to syllabus design, and includes, at the finer level, examples of lesson plans, class exercises, and/or textual analyses. Contributions also focus on pedagogies that integrate critical race, feminist, queer, disability, class, and age studies in courses, with most essays exemplifying intersectional approaches to these axes of difference and oppression. The culminating section includes chapters on teaching with digital technology, as well as descriptions of courses that bridge bioethics and music, medical humanities and podcasts, health humanities filmmaking, and visual arts in end-of-life care. By collecting scholars from a wide array of disciplinary specialties, professional ranks, and institutional affiliations, the volume offers a snapshot of the diverse ways medical/health humanities is practiced today and maps the diverse institutional locations where it is called upon to do work. It provides educators across diverse terrains myriad insights that will energize their teaching.

Communicative Biocapitalism examines the cultural, technological, economic, and rhetorical logics that shape the “voice of the patient� in digital health, arguing that digital technologies rely on assumptions that reflect dominant ideologies of health, disability, gender, and race. While late 20th- century activism targeted inequalities in health and health care, these are not the central concerns of digital health; digital health tools such as the FitBit and Apple’s HealthKit are instead marketed as neutral devices made to help users take responsibility for their health. The book treats a wide range of examples, including patient- networking websites, the Quantified Self, and online breast cancer narratives to understand how the attention economy, platform regulations, and big data logics impinge on how digital health tools configure the “voice of the patient.� This configuration has real world effects, influencing pharmaceutical development, digital tool engineering, and how the politics of illness are made invisible.