Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities

ISBN-13: 9781032338101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 468 str.

Bleakley Alan

Opis

This Handbook offers a cutting-edge overview of the state of the medical humanities globally, showing how clinically-oriented medical humanities, the critical study of medicine as a global historical and cultural phenomenon, and medicine as a force for cultural change can intersect and inform each other.

Spis treści

Introduction  Medical humanities as networks, systems and translations  1 A Dose of Empathy from my Syrian Doctor  2 The Cultural Crossings of Care: A Call for Translational Medical Humanities  3 Medical Work in Transition: Toward Collaborative and Transformative Expertise  4 Health, Health Care and Health Education: Problems, Paradigms, and Patterns  Democratising medicine: the medical humanities as forms of resistance  5 The State of the Union: Rigour and Responsibility in US Health Humanities  6 The Cutting Edge: Health Humanities for Equity and Social Justice  7 Geography as Engaged Medical-Health-Humanities  8 Challenging Heteronormativity in Medicine  9 Medical Nemesis 40 Years On: The Enduring Legacy of Ivan Illich  10 Hospitaland  Medicine’s metaphors and rhetoric  11 Don’t Breathe a Word: A Psychoanalysis of Medicine’s Inflations  12 Metaphor as Art – A Thought Experiment  13 The Practice of Metaphor  14 Medical Slang: Symptom or Solution?  15 Ageism and Rhetoric  16 The Rhetorical Possibilities of a Multi-metaphorical View of Clinical Supervision  17 Narratives of Anti-Vaccination  18 Thought Curfew: Empathy’s Endgame?  Medicine as performance and public engagement  19 The Performing Arts in Medicine and Medical Education  20 A Manifesto for Artists’ Books & the Medical Humanities  21 Grasping Emergency Care through Pop Culture: The Truths and Lies of Film, Television and Other Video Based Media  22 Who is the Audience for Medical/ Health Humanities?  23 Desire  Imagination  Action: Theatre of the Oppressed in Medical Education  24 Zombie Sickness: Contagious Ideas in Performance  25 The Masks of Uncertainty  Embodiment and disembodiment  26   Nobody’s Home  27   Ecstasy  28 Relationships that Matter: Embodying Absent Kinships in the Japanese Child Welfare  System  29 Still Alice? Ethical Aspects of Conceptualising Selfhood in Dementia  30 Body Maps: Reframing Embodied Experiences through Ethnography and Art  31 Perspectives on Olfaction in Medical Culture  The medical humanities in medical education  32 The ‘Awe-full’ Fascination of Pathology  33 Balancing Bioethics by Sensing the Aesthetic  34 Medical Humanities Online: Experiences from South Africa  35 “Your effort was great/ You carried me nine months”: The Birth of Medical Humanities in Ethiopia  Part I: ‘Your effort was great’  Part II: Spices and Hard Questions  36 Medical Humanities in Canadian Medical Schools: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities  The patient will see you now  37 Can We Make Empathy More Intelligent? Try Social Empathy!  38 A Letter from Marijke Boucherie to Alan Bleakley  39 Health Humanities: A Democratising Future Beyond Medical Humanities  40 Doctors Need Safe Confessional and Cathartic Spaces. What We Learned From the  Research Project: ‘People Talking: Digital Dialogues for Mutual Recovery’  41 All Thanks to the Words of a Stranger (an homage to the UK’s National Health Service)  Overview: celebrating the Persian Flaw  42 Negotiating Research in the Medical Humanities

O autorze

Alan Bleakley is Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities at Plymouth University’s Peninsula School of Medicine, UK, and Visiting Scholar at the Wilson Centre, University of Toronto, Canada. He is immediate past president of the Association for Medical Humanities Council.