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Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities
Culture and Medicine
Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities
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Charting shared advances across the emerging fields of medical humanities and health humanities, this book engages with the question of how biomedical knowledge is constructed, negotiated, and circulated as a cultural practice.
The volume is composed of a series of pathbreaking inter-disciplinary essays that bring sociocultural habits of mind and modes of thought to the study of medicine, health and patients. These juxtapositions create new forms of knowledge, while emphasizing the vulnerability of human bodies, anti-essentialist approaches to biology, a sensitivity to language and rhetoric, and an attention to social justice.
These essays dissect the ways that cultural practices define the limits of health and the body: from the body's place and trajectory in the world to how bodies relate to one another, from questions about ageing and sex to what counts as health and illness.
Considering how these and other concepts are shaped by a negotiation between medico-scientific knowledge and ways of knowing derived from other domains, this book provides important new insights into how biomedical frameworks become settled forms for broader cultural understanding.
Table of Contents
Introduction – Rishi Goyal and Arden Hegele
I. Identities/Institutions
Chapter 1 - The Victorian Ethics of Reading Pregnancy in Contemporary Bestselling Fiction
Livia Arndal Woods
Chapter 2 - Postpartum Exhaustion in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
Alicia Andrzejewski
Chapter 3 - Medical and Military Transition in Anatomy of a Soldier
Kristina Fleuty
II. Practices
Chapter 4 - On the Record: What Physician Texts Reveal about Physician Identities and the Electronic Health Record
Kamna S. Balhara
Chapter 5 - Mixed Feedback: The Promise of Structural Competence Education
Joshua Franklin
Chapter 6 - From Efficiency to Pain: A History of the Visual Analogue Scale
Gabi Schaffzin
III. Contingencies
Chapter 7 - Toward a Crip Medical Humanities
Travis Chi Wing Lau
Chapter 8 - Tales of the City as Historical Document: HIV/AIDS, Serialization, Urban Landscapes and Sexuality
John A. Carranza
Chapter 9 - The Suffering Caregiver: Pain at the End of Life
Benjamin Gagnon Chainey
IV. Alternatives
Chapter 10 - Against 'Endochronology': Hormonal Rebellion and Generic Blending in Confessions of the Fox
Diana Rose Newby
Chapter 11 - Whose Dystopia?
Anna Fenton-Hathaway
Coda
Roanne Kantor
Product details
| Published | Jul 25 2024 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 268 |
| ISBN | 9781350248656 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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