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The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

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

Abstract

The medical humanities, we claim, names a series of intersections, exchanges and entanglements between the biomedical sciences, the arts and humanities, and the social sciences. The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities introduces the ideas, individuals and scholarly approaches that are currently shaping the field. The medical humanities is an area of inquiry that is highly interdisciplinary, rapidly expanding and increasingly globalised. As this Introduction and the chapters that follow demonstrate, The Companion is both a reinvigoration and a critical reorientation of the me ... More

Keywords: Medical humanities, ethics, medical ethics, bioethics, critical

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9781474400046
Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2018 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Sarah Atkinson, editor
University of Newcastle

Jane Macnaughton, editor
Durham University

Jennifer Richards, editor
Durham University

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods

Part I Evidence and Experiment

1 Entangling the Medical Humanities

Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard

2 Modelling Systems Biomedicine: Intertwinement and The ‘Real’

Annamaria Carusi

3 Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future

Volker Scheid

4 The Lived Genome

Christoph Rehmann-Sutter and Dana Mahr

5 Getting the Measure of Twins

William Viney

6 Paper Technologies, Digital Technologies: Working with Early Modern Medical Records

Lauren Kassell

7 How are/our Work: ‘What, if anything, is the use of any of This?’

Jill Magi, Nev Jones and Timothy Kelly

8 Afterword: Evidence and Experiment

Patricia Waugh

Part II The Body and The Senses

9 Picturing Pain

Suzannah Biernoff

10 The Body Beyond the Anatomy Lab: (Re)Addressing Arts Methodologies for the Critical Medical Humanities

Rachael Allen

11 Touch, Trust and Compliance in Early Modern Medical Practice

Cynthia Klestinec

12 Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’

Bethan Evans and Charlotte Cooper

13 Reading the Image of Race: Neurocriminology, Medical Imaging Technologies and Literary Intervention

Lindsey Andrews and Jonathan M. Metzl

14 Touching Blind Bodies: A Critical Inquiry into Pedagogical and Cultural Constructions of Visual Disability in the Nineteenth Century

Heather Tilley and Jan Eric Olsén

15 The Anatomy of the Renaissance Voice

Jennifer Richards and Richard Wistreich

16 Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture: Using Critical Medical Humanities to Bridge an Epistemic Gap

Jane Macnaughton and Havi Carel

17 Morphological Freedom and Medicine: Constructing the Posthuman Body

Luna Dolezal

18 Afterword: The Body and The Senses

Jo Winning

Part III Mind, Imagination, Affect

19 Medical Humanities and The Place of Wonder

Martyn Evans

20 Man’s Dark Interior: Surrealism, Viscera and The Anatomical Imaginary

Edward Juler

21 Narrative and Clinical Neuroscience: Can Phenomenologically Informed Approaches and Empirical Work Cross-Fertilise?

Jonathan Cole and Shaun Gallagher

22 On Pain of Death: The ‘Grotesque Sovereignty’ of the US Death Penalty

Lisa Guenther

23 Voices and Visions: Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing

Corinne Saunders

24 Victorian Literary Aesthetics and Mental Pathology

Peter Garratt

25 Aphasic Modernism: Languages for Illness from a Confusion of Tongues

Laura Salisbury

26 Trans-Species Entanglements: Animal Assistants in Narratives About Autism

David Herman

27 Afterword: Mind, Imagination, Affect

Felicity Callard

Part IV Health, Care, Citizens

28 Medical Migration and The Global Politics of Equality1

Hannah Bradby

29 Language Matters: ‘Counsel’ in Early Modern and Modern Medicine

Ian Sabroe and Phil Withington

30 Fictions of the Human Right to Health: Writing Against the Postcolonial Exotic in Western Medicine

Rosemary J. Jolly

31 Culture in Medicine: An Argument Against Competence

Rebecca J. Hester

32 The Roots and Ramifications of Narrative in Modern Medicine

Brian Hurwitz and Victoria Bates

33 Broadmoor Performed: A Theatrical Hospital

Anna Harpin

34 On (Not) Caring: Tracing the Meanings of Care in the Imaginative Literature of the ‘Alzheimer’s Epidemic’

Lucy Burke

35 Care, Kidneys and Clones: The Distance of Space, Time and Imagination

Sarah Atkinson

36 Afterword: Health, Care, Citizens

Stuart Murray

End Matter

Notes on Contributors

Index