Pedagogies of Woundedness: Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority

by James Kyung-Jin Lee

Book Overview

The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian Americans to enter the field of medicine, principally as providers of care rather than those who require care. Pedagogies of Woundedness explores what happens when those considered model minorities critically engage with illness and medicine whether...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439921865
• ISBN13: 9781439921869
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"