Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: Too Long Too Short ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: The Why, The What, And The How Of The Medical/Health Humanities 1
6. Part I. Disease And Illness
7. Chapter 1. Being A Good Story: The Humanities As Therapeutic Practice 13
8. Chapter 2. Illuminating The It, Thee, And We Of Disease And Illness: The Metamorphosis And Related Works 26
9. Chapter 3. “This Weird, Incurable Disease”: Competing Diagnoses In The Rhetoric Of Morgellons 36
10. Chapter 4. My Quest For Health 50
11. Part II. Disability
12. Chapter 5. Disability In Two Doctor Stories 63
13. Chapter 6. Music And Disability 77
14. Chapter 7. American Narrative Films And Disability: An Uneasy History 87
15. Chapter 8. Standout 97
16. Part III. Death And Dying
17. Chapter 9. When The Doctor Is Not God: The Impact Of Religion On Medical Decision Making At The End Of Life 103
18. Chapter 10. Postmodern Death And Dying: A Literary Analysis 113
19. Chapter 11. Second Degree Block: Poem And Commentary 122
20. Part IV. Patient- Professional Relationships
21. Chapter 12. Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, And The Social Context Of The Patient-Professional Relationship 127
22. Chapter 13. Humanities And The Medical Home 138
23. Chapter 14. Occupational Medicine 149
24. Part V. The Body
25. Chapter 15. The Virtues Of The Imperfect Body 155
26. Chapter 16. Seeing Bodies In Pain 171
27. Chapter 17. Public Fetuses 186
28. Chapter 18. More Body: A Performance For Five (Or More) Bodies 196
29. Part VI. Gender And Sexuality
30. Chapter 19. Adult Intake Form 203
31. Chapter 20. What Is Sex For? Or, The Many Uses Of The Vag 207
32. Chapter 21. “I Always Prefer The Scissors”: Isaac Baker Brown And Feminist Histories Of Medicine 215
33. Chapter 22. Comics In The Health Humanities: A New Approach To Sex And Gender Education 226
34. Chapter 23. I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar: On Gender And Medicine 242
35. Part VII. Race And Class
36. Chapter 24. Listening As Freedom: Narrative, Health, And Social Justice 251
37. Chapter 25. Race And Mental Health 261
38. Chapter 26. Law’S Hand In Race, Class, And Health Inequities: On The Humanities And The Social Determinants Of Health 268
39. Chapter 27. The Rooms Of Our Souls 277
40. Part VIII. Aging
41. Chapter 28. “Old Age Isn’T A Battle, It’S A Massacre”: Reading Philip Roth’S Everyman 285
42. Chapter 29. “Do You Remember Me?” Constructions Of Alzheimer’S Disease In Literature And Film 295
43. Chapter 30. Love In The Time Of Dementia 304
44. Part IX. Mental Illness
45. Chapter 31. Narrating Our Sadness, With A Little Help From The Humanities 311
46. Chapter 32. Teaching Narratives Of Mental Illness 321
47. Chapter 33. Community Psychiatry And The Medical Humanities 330
48. Chapter 34. Culpability 341
49. Part X. Spirituality And Religion
50. Chapter 35. Rites Of Bioethics 365
51. Chapter 36. Health And Humanities: Spirituality And Religion 376
52. Chapter 37. Scientia Mortis And The Ars Moriendi: To The Memory Of Norman 387
53. Chapter 38. Meditations Of An Anesthesiologist: Poem And Commentary 403
54. Part XI. Science And Technology
55. Chapter 39. Andromeda’S Futures: A Story Of Humanities, Technology, Science, And Art 409
56. Chapter 40. Knowing And Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein 419
57. Chapter 41. A Brief History Of Love: A Rationale For The History Of Epidemics 430
58. Chapter 42. Calcedonies 442
59. Part XII. Health Professions Education
60. Chapter 43. Teaching Autism Through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing The Divide Between Bioethics And Medical Humanities 479
61. Chapter 44. Courting Discomfort In An Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom 490
62. Chapter 45. The Medical Humanities In Medical Education: Toward A Medical Aesthetics Of Resistance 501
63. Chapter 46. In Defense Of Cheaper Stethoscopes 511
64. References 517
65. Notes On Contributors 569
66. Index 575