The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

Anne Whitehead; Angela Woods; Sarah Atkinson; Jane Macnaughton; Jennifer Richards

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

Anne Whitehead , Angela Woods , Sarah Atkinson , Jane Macnaughton and Jennifer Richards

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400053

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About this book

A field-defining collection of original critical engagements at the intersection of the biomedical sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences

The Introduction and 8 of the chapters in this Companion are Open Access. Click on the Resources tab below to access them.

In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area.

Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder.

Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience.

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Key Features

Offers an introduction to the second wave of the field of the medical humanities
Positions the humanities not as additive to medicine but as making a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might think about individual, subjective and embodied experience
Exemplifies the commitment of the critical medical humanities to genuinely interdisciplinary thinking by stimulating multi-disciplinary dialogue around key areas of debate within the field
Presents thirty-six original chapters from leading and emergent scholars in the field, who are defining its new critical edge

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Evidence and Experiment Fitzgerald, Felicity Callard, Annamaria Carusi, Volker Scheid, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Dana Mahr, William Viney, Lauren Kassell, Jill Magi, Nev Jones, Timothy Kelly and Patricia Waugh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Part II: The Body and The Senses Suzannah Biernoff, Rachael Allen, Cynthia Klestinec, Bethan Evans, Charlotte Cooper, Lindsey Andrews, Jonathan M. Metzl, Heather Tilley, Jan Eric Olsén, Jennifer Richards, Richard Wistreich, Jane Macnaughton, Havi Carel, Luna Dolezal and Jo Winning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part III: Mind, Imagination, Affect Martyn Evans, Edward Juler, Jonathan Cole, Shaun Gallagher, Lisa Guenther, Corinne Saunders, Peter Garratt, Laura Salisbury, David Herman and Felicity Callard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Part IV: Health, Care, Citizens Hannah Bradby, Ian Sabroe, Phil Withington, Rosemary J. Jolly, Rebecca J. Hester, Brian Hurwitz, Victoria Bates, Anna Harpin, Lucy Burke, Sarah Atkinson and Stuart Murray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	633
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	645

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 700
Illustrations
- Other: 41 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9781474400053