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New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies
About this book
This book is situated in the field of medical humanities, and the articles continue the dialogue between the disciplines of literature and medicine that was initiated in the 1970s and has continued with ebbs and flows since then. Recently, the need to renew that interdisciplinary dialogue between these two fields, which are both concerned with the human condition, has resurfaced in the face of institutional challenges, such as shrinking resources and the disappearance of many spaces devoted to the exchange of ideas between humanists and scientists. This volume presents cutting-edge research by scholars keen on not only maintaining but also enlivening that dialogue. They come from a variety of cultural, academic, and disciplinary backgrounds and their essays are organized in four thematic clusters: pedagogy, the mind-body connection, alterity, and medical practice.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Editor and Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Bridging the Divide Between Literature and Medicine
- Part I History and Pedagogy
- Reading and Writing One’s Way to Wellness: The History of Bibliotherapy and Scriptotherapy
- Why Teach Literature and Medicine? Answers from Three Decades
- Intellectual Cosmopolitanism as Stewardship in Medical Humanities and Undergraduate Writing Pedagogy
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Teaching an Interdisciplinary Course on “A Cultural and Evolutionary History of Sexuality” But Were Afraid to Ask
- Medical Professionalism: Using Literary Narrative to Explore and Evaluate Medical Professionalism
- Part II Body and Mind
- Mind, Breath, and Voice in Chaucer’s Romance Writing
- Affect and the Organs in the Anatomical Poems of Paul Celan: Encountering Medical Discourse
- Reading the DSM-5 Through Literature: The Value of Subjective Knowing
- Anecdotal Evidence: What Patient Poets Provide
- “L’Œil Gauche Barré:” Migraine, Scotoma, and Allied Disorders in Emile Zola’s Novels
- Part III Physical and Cultural Alterity
- Corporeal Abnormality as Intellectual and Cultural Capital: Jean Fernel’s Pathologiae Libri, Ambroise Paré’s Des Monstres et Prodiges, and Michel de Montaigne’s Essais
- The Primacy of Touch: Helen Keller’s Embodiment of Language
- Unsound Elegy: Breast Cancer in The Dying Animal by Philip Roth and Elegy by Isabel Coixet
- Reading Colonial Dis-easeDisease in Hong Kong Modernist Fiction
- Anandibai Joshi’s Passage to America (and More): The Making of a Hindu Lady Doctor
- The Introduction of Moxibustion and Acupuncture in Europe from the Early Modern Period to the Nineteenth Century
- Part IV Professionalization of Medicine
- Midwives and Spin Doctors: The Rhetoric of Authority in Early Modern French Medicine
- The Changing Face of Quack Doctors: Satirizing Mountebanks and Physicians in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England
- Medical Tourism in Victorian Edinburgh: Writing Narratives of Healthy Citizenship
- Doctor-Writers: Anton Chekhov’s Medical Stories
- Mikhail Berman-Tsikinovsky’s Medical Plays: Chekhov in Chicago
- Index