Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Rethinking Medical Humanities

Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences

Edited by: Rinaldo F. Canalis , Massimo Ciavolella and Valeria Finucci

Volume 7 in the series Medical Traditions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110788501

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About this book

Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on culture is assessed and expressed in the particular language of the disciplines concerned with the human experience. However, as much as at first sight this definition appears to be clear, it does not reflect how the interaction of medicine with the humanities has evolved to become a separate field of study. In this publication we have explored, through the analysis of a group of selected multidisciplinary essays, the dynamics of this process. The essays predominantly address the interaction of literature, philosophy, art, art history, ethics, and education with medicine and its specialties from the classical period to the present. Particular attention has been given to the Medieval, Early Modern, and Enlightenment periods. To avoid a rigid compartmentalization of the book based on individual fields of study we opted for a fluid division into multidisciplinary sections, reflective of the complex interactions of the included works with medicine.

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Rinaldo F. Canalis and Massimo Ciavolella, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Valeria Finucci, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Introduction: Setting up the Terms
Rethinking Medical Humanities Rinaldo F. Canalis, Massimo Ciavolella and Valeria Finucci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Philosophy and Ethical Queries
Pondering the Perimeters: Towards a Definition of Medical Humanism Donald Beecher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Avoidable Mistakes – Premodern Medical Fallibility as an Ethical Problem with Epistemological Implications Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
When the Fetus Becomes a Child: Some Reflections from the Long Eighteenth Century Jennifer Kosmin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Ethical Responsibilities in the Curing/Caring Relationship Manuela Gallerani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Haling or Hale: The Body in the Arts and Literature
Disease and the Problem of Evil in the Novels of Thomas Mann Stephen C. Meredith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Monstrosity and the Monstrous Revisited: Fortunio Liceti’s Medical Imagination Pablo Maurette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
The Flesh of Wax: The Use of Scientific Collection in Medical Humanities Roberta Ballestriero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
The Body between Life and Death: Berengario da Carpi and the Anatomical Image of the Sixteenth Century Ariella Minden and Paolo Savoia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Jan Deijman and the Social History of the Brain Jorge A. Lazareff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Secrets of the Dead
The Bio-Turn in History Writing: Death, Last Wishes, and Lasting Wishes Valeria Finucci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
The Fatal Disease of the Last Reigning Inca: A Historical and Clinical Study Rinaldo F. Canalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Paleopathology and Anthropology of the Renaissance: From the Morbus Dominorum to the Alleged ‘Michelangelo’s Shoes’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Reason, Affects and Madness
The New World Opened by Madness Remo Bodei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Why Listen to the Mad? What Schizophrenic Girl Offers to Narrative Medicine Sowon S. Park Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
The Malady of Love in Early Modern Medical Thought Massimo Ciavolella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
The Humanities in Medical Education
Art Images And Medical Teaching Eduardo H. Rubinstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Medical Humanities: A Tautology or a Necessity? Francis C. Wells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Teaching PTSD with Film: The Case of Peter Weir’s Fearless Romy Sutherland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
The Humanities and Global Health: Travels with Philippa Foot and Karl Popper Jorge A. Lazareff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Postface
Medical Humanities as a Search for Unity Alain Touwaide Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Cumulative Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students in the fields of medical humanities and social science, history, cultural studies and bioethics
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 417
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
- Coloured Illustrations: 45
Keywords: ethics; humanities / medicine; history of medicine

eBook

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783110788501

Hardcover

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783110788006