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Health Humanities Reader
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Edited by:
Therese Jones
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With contributions by:
Arthur W. Frank
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Preface by:
Mark Vonnegut
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English
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2014
About this book
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.
In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field—and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection’s contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences.
With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness.
In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field—and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection’s contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences.
With warmth and humor, critical acumen and ethical insight, Health Humanities Reader truly humanizes the field of medicine. Its accessible language and broad scope offers something for everyone from the experienced medical professional to a reader interested in health and illness.
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THERESE JONES is an associate professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities and director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She is the editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities, and her extensive publications include Sharing the Delirium: Second Generation AIDS Plays and Performances.
DELESE WEAR is a professor of behavioral and community health sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical University. She has written and edited numerous books, including Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education.
LESTER D. FRIEDMAN is chair of media and society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. A leading scholar on media representations of medicine, he is the editor of Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media and co-editor of Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies.
DELESE WEAR is a professor of behavioral and community health sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical University. She has written and edited numerous books, including Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education.
LESTER D. FRIEDMAN is chair of media and society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. A leading scholar on media representations of medicine, he is the editor of Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media and co-editor of Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies.
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"It's about time! The field of medical humanities has been waiting for a reader, and this one is it. With an excellent array of essays in appropriate topics by top people in the field, this book should set the standard for the next ten years. It will prove fascinating to undergraduates, graduate students in both the humanities and the health sciences, and to the general public and particularly those who are or will be patients—which of course is everyone."
— Lennard J. Davis, editor of The Disability Studies Reader"This is a landmark volume that sets the standard for any future collection in medical/health humanities. It is by turns authoritative, funny, edgy, creative and personal—sometimes all in one piece.”
— Thomas R. Cole, Director, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas-Houston Medical School"This bold, intelligent, and vitally comprehensive collection is a truly interdisciplinary achievement and an indispensible resource.Through twelve judiciously selected thematic clusters, Rutgers’s Health Humanities Reader consolidates this new subfield by capturing both the complexity and excitement of health humanities scholarship. An essential tool with practical applications both inside and outside the classroom."
— Andrea Charise, PhD, assistant professor of health studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough"[This book] consists of nearly 50 chapters, some of which deal with classic medical humanities topics, such as the notions of health and disease and the theory of the body. The majority of the book centers on more contemporary—some would say postmodern—issues, such as gender and sexuality, disability, and aging. Recommended."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword: Too Long Too Short
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Why, The What, And The How Of The Medical/Health Humanities
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Chapter 1. Being A Good Story: The Humanities As Therapeutic Practice
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Chapter 2. Illuminating The It, Thee, And We Of Disease And Illness: The Metamorphosis And Related Works
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Chapter 3. “This Weird, Incurable Disease”: Competing Diagnoses In The Rhetoric Of Morgellons
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Chapter 4. My Quest For Health
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Chapter 5. Disability In Two Doctor Stories
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Chapter 6. Music And Disability
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Chapter 7. American Narrative Films And Disability: An Uneasy History
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Chapter 8. Standout
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Chapter 9. When The Doctor Is Not God: The Impact Of Religion On Medical Decision Making At The End Of Life
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Chapter 10. Postmodern Death And Dying: A Literary Analysis
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Chapter 11. Second Degree Block: Poem And Commentary
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Chapter 12. Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, And The Social Context Of The Patient-Professional Relationship
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Chapter 13. Humanities And The Medical Home
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Chapter 14. Occupational Medicine
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Chapter 15. The Virtues Of The Imperfect Body
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Chapter 16. Seeing Bodies In Pain
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Chapter 17. Public Fetuses
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Chapter 18. More Body: A Performance For Five (Or More) Bodies
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Chapter 19. Adult Intake Form
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Chapter 20. What Is Sex For? Or, The Many Uses Of The Vag
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Chapter 21. “I Always Prefer The Scissors”: Isaac Baker Brown And Feminist Histories Of Medicine
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Chapter 22. Comics In The Health Humanities: A New Approach To Sex And Gender Education
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Chapter 23. I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar: On Gender And Medicine
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Chapter 24. Listening As Freedom: Narrative, Health, And Social Justice
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Chapter 25. Race And Mental Health
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Chapter 26. Law’S Hand In Race, Class, And Health Inequities: On The Humanities And The Social Determinants Of Health
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Chapter 27. The Rooms Of Our Souls
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Chapter 28. “Old Age Isn’T A Battle, It’S A Massacre”: Reading Philip Roth’S Everyman
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Chapter 29. “Do You Remember Me?” Constructions Of Alzheimer’S Disease In Literature And Film
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Chapter 30. Love In The Time Of Dementia
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Chapter 31. Narrating Our Sadness, With A Little Help From The Humanities
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Chapter 32. Teaching Narratives Of Mental Illness
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Chapter 33. Community Psychiatry And The Medical Humanities
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Chapter 34. Culpability
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Chapter 35. Rites Of Bioethics
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Chapter 36. Health And Humanities: Spirituality And Religion
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Chapter 37. Scientia Mortis And The Ars Moriendi: To The Memory Of Norman
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Chapter 38. Meditations Of An Anesthesiologist: Poem And Commentary
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Chapter 39. Andromeda’S Futures: A Story Of Humanities, Technology, Science, And Art
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Chapter 40. Knowing And Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein
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Chapter 41. A Brief History Of Love: A Rationale For The History Of Epidemics
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Chapter 42. Calcedonies
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Chapter 43. Teaching Autism Through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing The Divide Between Bioethics And Medical Humanities
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Chapter 44. Courting Discomfort In An Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom
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Chapter 45. The Medical Humanities In Medical Education: Toward A Medical Aesthetics Of Resistance
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Chapter 46. In Defense Of Cheaper Stethoscopes
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Notes On Contributors
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Index
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September 2, 2019
eBook ISBN:
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Keywords for this book
health humanities; medical humanities; interdisciplinary scholarship; humanistic inquiry; bioethics; human rights; healthcare; technology; medical practice; Health Humanities Reader; Therese Jones; Delese Wear; Lester D. Friedman; scholars; educators; artists; clinicians; original essays; diversity; disability studies; history; literature; nursing; religion; narrative medicine; philosophy; medicine; social sciences; critical acumen; ethical insight; accessibility; broad scope; healthcare professional; health and illness; interdisciplinary approach; humanities in medicine; healthcare education; medical ethics; healthcare policy; healthcare practice; patient care; cultural perspectives; healthcare humanities; healthcare research; healthcare literature; healthcare philosophy; healthcare ethics; healthcare technology; healthcare communication; healthcare diversity; healthcare professionalism; healthcare narrative; healthcare history; healthcare sociology; healthcare psychology; healthcare spirituality; healthcare arts.
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
