Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Evidence and Experiment
7. 1 Entangling the Medical Humanities 35
8. 2 Modelling Systems Biomedicine: Intertwinement and the ‘Real’ 50
9. 3 Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future 66
10. 4 The Lived Genome 87
11. 5 Getting the Measure of Twins 104
12. 6 Paper Technologies, Digital Technologies: Working with Early Modern Medical Records 120
13. 7 How Are/Our Work: ‘What, if Anything, is the Use of Any of This?’ 136
14. 8 Afterword: Evidence and Experiment 153
15. Part II: The Body and The Senses
16. 9 Picturing Pain 163
17. 10 The Body Beyond the Anatomy Lab: (Re)addressing Arts Methodologies for the Critical Medical Humanities 186
18. 11 Touch, Trust and Compliance in Early Modern Medical Practice 209
19. 12 Reframing Fatness: Critiquing ‘Obesity’ 225
20. 13 Reading the Image of Race: Neurocriminology, Medical Imaging Technologies and Literary Intervention 242
21. 14 Touching Blind Bodies: A Critical Inquiry into Pedagogical and Cultural Constructions of Visual Disability in the Nineteenth Century 260
22. 15 The Anatomy of the Renaissance Voice 276
23. 16 Breathing and Breathlessness in Clinic and Culture: Using Critical Medical Humanities to Bridge an Epistemic Gap 294
24. 17 Morphological Freedom and Medicine: Constructing the Posthuman Body 310
25. 18 Afterword: The Body and the Senses 325
26. Part III: Mind, Imagination, Affect
27. 19 Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder 339
28. 20 Man’s Dark Interior: Surrealism, Viscera and the Anatomical Imaginary 356
29. 21 Narrative and Clinical Neuroscience: Can Phenomenologically Informed Approaches and Empirical Work Cross-fertilise? 377
30. 22 On Pain of Death: The ‘Grotesque Sovereignty’ of the US Death Penalty 395
31. 23 Voices and Visions: Mind, Body and Affect in Medieval Writing 411
32. 24 Victorian Literary Aesthetics and Mental Pathology 428
33. 25 Aphasic Modernism: Languages for Illness from a Confusion of Tongues 444
34. 26 Trans-species Entanglements: Animal Assistants in Narratives about Autism 463
35. 27 Afterword: Mind, Imagination, Affect 481
36. Part IV: Health, Care, Citizens
37. 28 Medical Migration and the Global Politics of Equality 491
38. 29 Language Matters: ‘Counsel’ in Early Modern and Modern Medicine 508
39. 30 Fictions of the Human Right to Health: Writing against the Postcolonial Exotic in Western Medicine 527
40. 31 Culture in Medicine: An Argument against Competence 541
41. 32 The Roots and Ramifi cations of Narrative in Modern Medicine 559
42. 33 Broadmoor Performed: A Theatrical Hospital 577
43. 34 On (Not) Caring: Tracing the Meanings of Care in the Imaginative Literature of the ‘Alzheimer’s Epidemic’ 596
44. 35 Care, Kidneys and Clones: The Distance of Space, Time and Imagination 611
45. 36 Afterword: Health, Care, Citizens 627
46. Notes on Contributors 633
47. Index 645