ABSTRACT
This chapter calls for a social justice-oriented approach to health humanities, which is a field of study that, because of its radical interdisciplinarity, is uniquely positioned to address historic inequities and systemic oppression. This can be achieved by confronting the histories of the fields that inform health humanities, making a concerted effort to include works produced by members of traditionally marginalized groups, and by imagining new ways of ensuring access to and delivering equitable and inclusive health care. Drawing from research on the production of presence and using illustrative historical and contemporary examples involving or produced by Black women—including the genre of Afrofuturism—health humanities can function as a palimpsest for future practices.
