Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities by Bleakley, Alan;

Short description:

This Handbook offers a cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically-oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can intersect and inform each other.

Long description:

This authoritative new handbook offers a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can inform each other.

Composed of eight parts, the Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities looks at the medical humanities as:

• a network and system
• therapeutic
• provocation
• forms of resistance
• a way of reconceptualising the medical curriculum
• concerned with performance and narrative
• mediated by artists as diagnosticians of culture through public engagement.

This book describes how the medical humanities can be used in and out of clinical settings, acting as a point of resistance, redistributing medicine’s capital amongst its stakeholders, embracing the complexity of medical instances, shaping medical education, promoting interdisciplinary understandings and recognising an identity for the medical humanities as a network effect. This book is an essential read for all students, scholars and practitioners with an interest in the medical humanities.

Table of Contents:

Introduction  Medical humanities as networks, systems and translations  1 A Dose of Empathy from my Syrian Doctor  2 The Cultural Crossings of Care: A Call for Translational Medical Humanities  3 Medical Work in Transition: Toward Collaborative and Transformative Expertise  4 Health, Health Care and Health Education: Problems, Paradigms, and Patterns  Democratising medicine: the medical humanities as forms of resistance  5 The State of the Union: Rigour and Responsibility in US Health Humanities  6 The Cutting Edge: Health Humanities for Equity and Social Justice  7 Geography as Engaged Medical-Health-Humanities  8 Challenging Heteronormativity in Medicine  9 Medical Nemesis 40 Years On: The Enduring Legacy of Ivan Illich  10 Hospitaland  Medicine’s metaphors and rhetoric  11 Don’t Breathe a Word: A Psychoanalysis of Medicine’s Inflations  12 Metaphor as Art – A Thought Experiment  13 The Practice of Metaphor  14 Medical Slang: Symptom or Solution?  15 Ageism and Rhetoric  16 The Rhetorical Possibilities of a Multi-metaphorical View of Clinical Supervision  17 Narratives of Anti-Vaccination  18 Thought Curfew: Empathy’s Endgame?  Medicine as performance and public engagement  19 The Performing Arts in Medicine and Medical Education  20 A Manifesto for Artists’ Books & the Medical Humanities  21 Grasping Emergency Care through Pop Culture: The Truths and Lies of Film, Television and Other Video Based Media  22 Who is the Audience for Medical/ Health Humanities?  23 Desire  Imagination  Action: Theatre of the Oppressed in Medical Education  24 Zombie Sickness: Contagious Ideas in Performance  25 The Masks of Uncertainty  Embodiment and disembodiment  26   Nobody’s Home  27   Ecstasy  28 Relationships that Matter: Embodying Absent Kinships in the Japanese Child Welfare  System  29 Still Alice? Ethical Aspects of Conceptualising Selfhood in Dementia  30 Body Maps: Reframing Embodied Experiences through Ethnography and Art  31 Perspectives on Olfaction in Medical Culture  The medical humanities in medical education  32 The ‘Awe-full’ Fascination of Pathology  33 Balancing Bioethics by Sensing the Aesthetic  34 Medical Humanities Online: Experiences from South Africa  35 “Your effort was great/ You carried me nine months”: The Birth of Medical Humanities in Ethiopia  Part I: ‘Your effort was great’  Part II: Spices and Hard Questions  36 Medical Humanities in Canadian Medical Schools: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities  The patient will see you now  37 Can We Make Empathy More Intelligent? Try Social Empathy!  38 A Letter from Marijke Boucherie to Alan Bleakley  39 Health Humanities: A Democratising Future Beyond Medical Humanities  40 Doctors Need Safe Confessional and Cathartic Spaces. What We Learned From the  Research Project: ‘People Talking: Digital Dialogues for Mutual Recovery’  41 All Thanks to the Words of a Stranger (an homage to the UK’s National Health Service)  Overview: celebrating the Persian Flaw  42 Negotiating Research in the Medical Humanities