Medicine, Health and Being Human

ISBN-13: 9781138301184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 276 str.

Lesa Scholl

Opis

This book explores how the medical has defined us: that is, the ways in which perspectives of medicine and health have affected understandings of what it means to be human. With chapters that span from the early modern period to the contemporary world, and are drawn from a range of disciplines and around the world, it holds that historical and cultural influences have brought about an understanding of humanity in which the medical is ingrained, sometimes unconsciously, usually as a mode of legitimisation. This volume is a valuable contribution for those interested in the medical humanities, history of medicine, history of ideas and the social approaches to health and illness.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Situating the soul, self, and mind 1. Physicians and the soul: Medicine and spirituality in seventeenth-century England Michelle Pfeffer 2. Hearing differently: Medical, modern and medieval approaches to sound Bonnie Millar 3. Sensing the self in the wandering mind Hazel Morrison 4. Soul searching: Psychiatry’s influence on selfhood Patrick Seniuk Part 2: Ethnographic constructions of self and society through medicine 5. Evidence-based medicine, the placebo effect, and performativity in healing Hannah Lesshafft 6. Voices in medicine: Bad news, good news Jennifer Greenwood 7. From Blumenbach to population genetics: A genealogy of the five races in the life sciences Jordan Liz Part 3: Realism and images in medical science 8. Defining the human with photographic precision: Medical objectivity and artistic realism Corinna Wagner 9. Scientific humanism in missionary photography Prue Ahrens 10. Medical imaging’s intrusive gaze Catherine Jenkins Part 4: Monsters, markets, and chimeras 11. Wonders and monsters: Negotiating medical-triggered redefinitions of humanity through popular fiction in the nineteenth century and today Anna Gasperini 12. Law, medicine, and monsters in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and Hilary Mantel’s The Giant, O’Brien Kathryn Bird 13. Imagining a kidney market: Transplantation, Prometheus and the monster’s bride Stephen M Young 14. The narratives of plastic surgery reality shows in South Korea: The patient’s success story, the surgeon as creator, and the permeability of expert knowledge Carmen Voinea Part 5: Medicine and humanity toward the end 15. My lawful wife and mistress Uzo Dibia 16. In Lady Delacour’s shadow: Women patients and breast cancer in short fiction April Patrick 17. The death of sympathy in Great War literature M. Renee Benham 18. A humanistic perspective on the curative power of language at the end of life: Restoration of the self through words and silence Andrea Rodrígez-Prat and Xavier Escribano

O autorze

Lesa Scholl teaches in the School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, Australia.