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