The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

by Anne Whitehead (Editor), Angela Woods (Editor)

Overview

Original critical engagements at the intersection of the biomedical sciences, arts, humanities and social sciences
In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area.
Key Features
Offers an introduction to the second wave of the field of the medical humanitiesPositions the humanities not as additive to medicine but as making a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might think about individual, subjective and embodied experienceExemplifies the commitment of the critical medical humanities to genuinely interdisciplinary thinking by stimulating multi-disciplinary dialogue around key areas of debate within the fieldPresents thirty-six original chapters from leading and emergent scholars in the field, who are defining its new critical edge

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474400046
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	06/20/2016
Series:	Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	700
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the author of Trauma Fiction (Edinburgh, 2004) and Memory: New Critical Idiom (Routledge, 2009). She has co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (Edinburgh, 2016), Theories of Memory: A Reader (Edinburgh, 2007) and W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion (Edinburgh, 2004), as well as a special issue of Feminist Theory on feminism and affect. She has published articles on contemporary literature in a range of journals, including Modern Fiction Studies, Textual Practice, and Contemporary Literature.

Jane Macnaughton is Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University. She became Deputy Head of the School of Medicine and Health in 2009. She has published in medical education, medical humanities, literature and medicine, history of medicine and health care environments, and she currently holds a Wellcome Senior Investigator Award for a project on The Life of Breath.

Angela Woods is Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities at Durham Universityand Co-Director of Hearing the Voice, a large interdisciplinary research project on voice-hearing (auditory verbal hallucination) supported by the Wellcome Trust (2012-2020). She is the author of The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory (Oxford UniversityPress, 2011) and has published in leading medical humanities and mental health journals including Schizophrenia Bulletin, Journal of Mental Health and The Lancet Psychiatry. Angela is Deputy Director of the Durham Centre for Medical Humanities and Associate Editor of the BMJ’s Medical Humanities Journal.

Jennifer Richards is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Newcastle University. Her books include Rhetoric (Routledge 2007) and Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge 2003; 2007), and collections of essays for Edinburgh UniversityPress, Routledge, and Palgrave Macmillan. She is currently working on a new monograph on the history of reading aloud in the English Renaissance, for which she has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods; Part I: Evidence and Experiment; 1. Entangling the medical humanities, Des Fitzgerald and Felicity Callard; 2. Modelling systems biomedicine: Intertwinement and the ‘Real’, Annamaria Carusi; 3. Holism, Chinese medicine and systems ideologies: Rewriting the past to imagine the future, Volker Scheid; 4. The lived genome, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter and Dana Mahr; 5. Getting the measure of twins, William Viney; 6. Paper technologies, digital technologies: Working with early modern medical records, Lauren Kassell; 7. How Are/Our Work: ‘What, if anything, is the use of any of this?’, Jill Magi, Nev Jones and Timothy Kelly; 8. Afterword: Evidence and ExperimentPatricia Waugh; Part II: The Body and the Senses; 9. Picturing pain, Suzannah Biernoff; 10. The body beyond the anatomy lab: (Re)addressing arts methodologies for the critical medical humanities, Rachael Allen; 11. Touch, trust and compliance in early modern medical practice, Cynthia Klestinec; 12. Reframing fatness: critiquing ‘obesity’, Bethan Evans and Charlotte Cooper; 13. Reading the image of race: Neurocriminology, medical imaging technologies, and literary intervention, Lindsey Andrews and Jonathan Metzl; 14. Touching blind bodies: a critical inquiry into pedagogical and cultural constructions of visual disability in the nineteenth century, Heather Tilley and Jan-Eric Olsén; 15. The anatomy of the Renaissance voice, Jennifer Richards and Richard Wistreich; 16. Breathing and breathlessness in clinic and culture: using critical medical humanities to bridge an epistemic gap, Jane Macnaughton and Havi Carel; 17. Morphological freedom and medicine: Constructing the posthuman body, Luna Dolezal; 18. Afterword: The Body and the Senses, Jo Winning; Part III: Mind, Imagination, Affect; 19. Medical humanities and the place of wonder, Martyn Evans; 20. Man’s dark interior: Surrealism, viscera and the anatomical imaginary, Edward Juler; 21. Narrative and clinical neuroscience: Can phenomenologically informed approaches and empirical work cross-fertilise?, Jonathan Cole and Shaun Gallagher; 22. On pain of death: The ‘grotesque sovereignty’ of the US death penalty, Lisa Guenther; 23. Voices and visions: Mind, body and affect in medieval writing, Corinne Saunders; 24. Victorian literary aesthetics and mental pathology, Peter Garratt; 25. Aphasic modernism: Languages for illness from a confusion of tongues, Laura Salisbury; 26. Trans-species entanglements: Animal assistants in narratives about autism, David Herman; 27. Afterword: Mind, Imagination, Affect, Felicity Callard; Part IV: Health, Care, Citizens; 28. Medical migration and the global politics of equality, Hannah Bradby; 29. Language matters: ‘Counsel’ in early modern and modern medicine, Ian Sabroe and Phil Withington; 30. Fictions of the human right to health: Writing against the postcolonial exotic in Western medicine, Rosemary Jolly; 31. Culture in medicine: An argument against competence, Rebecca Hester; 32. The roots and ramifications of narrative in modern medicine, Brian Hurwitz and Victoria Bates; 33. Broadmoor performed: A theatrical hospital, Anna Harpin; 34. On (not) Caring: Tracing the meanings of care in the imaginative literature of the ‘Alzheimer’s Epidemic’, Lucy Burke; 35. Care, kidneys and clones: the distance of space, time and imagination, Sarah Atkinson; 36. Afterword: Health, Care, Citizens, Stuart Murray; Biographies.

What People are Saying About This

Joanna Bourke

The Medical Humanities have been at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in the late twentieth century. But where should it go now? This volume demonstrates why the future lies with developing an exhilarating, robust, and provocative critical medical humanities, and shows us how it can be done.

Editorial Reviews

[An] epic, much-awaited collection of essays that brings together an impressive list of established and emerging scholars from around the world, and provides rich insights into the current shape of the medical humanities.
-- Dr Stella Bolaki, Centre for Medical Humanities

From the Publisher

The Medical Humanities have been at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research in the late twentieth century. But where should it go now? This volume demonstrates why the future lies with developing an exhilarating, robust, and provocative critical medical humanities, and shows us how it can be done.

Joanna Bourke

…a large and well-structured volume with a great deal of ambition.

The British Society for Literature and Science - Sepehr Hafizi

[An] epic, much-awaited collection of essays that brings together an impressive list of established and emerging scholars from around the world, and provides rich insights into the current shape of the medical humanities.

Centre for Medical Humanities Dr Stella Bolaki